I had never, unlike most people who graduated high school, never got around to too many classics. As a result, I never got to read Anne Frank. However, I still know the story, but reading it is a whole different feeling. To read of all the despair occurring at this point of time, from a young girl, barely a teenage, is tragic and ridiculous. I find it grotesque, however, to use this girls life, while short lived, as TEACHING material. It’s inhumane. 

But, whatever. That’s my opinion. Anne Frank writes about her daily experiences, from simple things like someone’s cat being turned into food (in her imagination) to humans urges to do terrible things – murder, steal, etc. But she’s positive, she doesn’t not complain all day or wallow in self pity. She recognizes herself worth and has faith of a better life. 

Unfortunately, Anne meets an untimely end, when her life is bombed. In the second text, “ A Woman in Berlin” there is bombing as well. The anonymous titular woman describes her life in Berlin during the war. It is very similar to the first text, living life amongst despair. It just just goes to show you that literature is a prevailing coping mechanism in times of peril. We have a 14 year old girl, and a presumably young adult woman ( although it can be up for debate), who have both been forced to live in unpleasant circumstances. The woman, in a basement, so terrible that they have to move dead bodies using wagons, and a girl who lived in an attic and saw no bloodshed- to my knowledge. 

Questions 
What was the identity of the woman in Berlin? Was it ever discovered? Were there more accounts of people living through turmoil discovered throughout history? 
If Anne Frank’s home was bombed how were her letters discovered? Is any of it assumed information? Is there evidence that some of this little girls words are still unheard?