If Anne Frank lived..
Do you think she would of had as much impact on the world? I believe her death magnified her life more than she can ever have did if she had lived.
shareHer diary would still have been published as an account of the war from the perspective of Jews in hiding. The fact that she (and most of her family) died does make it more emotional. But on the other hand, had she survived, there are plenty who would have wanted to hear her speak in person and she could have traveled and told her story like Miep did. She also wanted to write more. Whether or not she wrote more about her experiences in the war, it still would have gotten her name out there.
I read The Hiding Place in school. I don't think it's as popular. But i don't think that's because the author survived. I think that Anne's diary is popular because Anne's a child and because she was writing as things were happening, whereas Corrie ten Boom was a grown woman writing her story after it had occurred. Also, the diary is required reading in a lot of schools because teachers hope that students will be able to relate to Anne and therefore be more interested in the reading. That obviously is going to make the book more well-known and i don't see how that would be any different had Anne survived.
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True. Look at Elie Wiesel. He survived the Holocaust and his book Night</I> is also required reading in schools.
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If she has lived its quite possible that nobody would ever have been aware of the diary she kept.
She was a good writer and very creative and possibly she would have written about her experiences - but she would NEVER have published her diary.
Almost every "normal" person who keeps a diary or a journal do it for themselves, never imagining that one day their private thoughts will be shared with the world. Anne Frank even talks about her vagina in her diary - really in the 1940's I don't think any girl would be willing to have the world read about this.
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Actually, she was planning on having her diary published. She'd heard over the radio of the desire for diaries, letters, etc. from the wartime and she re-wrote sections of her diary, intending them for future readers. In fact, she changed the names of her friends from school and the other people hiding in the annex. So, while she might have done more editing and/or published under a pen name had she survived to do this on her own, she most likely would have published her diary.
Yes, people tend to write their diaries for themselves (that's kind of the point of keeping one), but sometimes people go through experiences that others would like help empathizing with and so they make the decision to publish their diaries. Some examples i can think of off the top of my head are Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipović, A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis and The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell.
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She most definitely would have published the diary. While in hiding she and the other fugitives heard the Dutch prime minister-in-exile call for the Dutch people to keep records of the war so that everyone would know exactly how they suffered under Nazi occupation. It was this broadcast which gave her the idea of publishing the diary, and she began at that point to rewrite her early entries.
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