This book is a classic because it is a true story written by a girl detailing her life within an unfathomable chapter of our world's history. It continues to be used in the classroom because it is a first person record of true events that enlightens students of the devastation caused by Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. Anne Frank and her family did their best to live a normal life in an abnormal setting, having come to the realization that their story would more than likely not have a positive ending. Without the diary left behind by Anne Frank, we would not be able to take a glimpse into the unimaginable life that many people were forced to live in WWII.
Anne Frank's diary brought about a new source of literature. The idea of actually reading about someone's real struggles was relatively new and especially the brutal way Frank wrote it. Even though her diary was censored by her father and lonesome survivor Otto, Anne Frank dared to go into further detail unlike many before her. While she shared her family's few positive moments together while in hiding, she certainly didn't hold back when sharing the other side of the spectrum.
When Frank's father, Otto, became interested in publishing his daughter's diary, the world was not a fan. As stated by flavorwire.com, sixteen publishers rejected the idea before Otto's dream became a reality; however, nowadays, after our culture has changed to a more graphic and mature nature, the book is read in many classrooms nationwide and over 30 million copies have been sold.
Anne Frank's diary captured the atrocities of the Holocaust during WWII and the impact that it had on those that Adolf Hitler might have referred to as "imperfect." This book represents a typical German Jewish family in the 1940s that was struggling to survive and provide during wartime, but had the added threat of being taken away and separated from one another without knowing their ultimate fates.
Anne Frank used her diary to show future readers that even though she would be a victim of such a mass tragedy, she lived for 15 years, and she wanted her life to count for something. She decided that instead of sitting around and feeling pity for herself and the situation she was in, she would turn her misfortune into something that would enlighten people for decades. Every day that she wrote was another day that she lived, and although she didn't survive to see her diary published, her voice is still being heard some 70 years later.
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