I am currently reading The Diary of Anne Frank which is an actual dairy written by a young, Jewish girl during WWII. The diary was a present for her thirteenth birthday and covers her life from the time she is thirteen until she is fifteen when her family is discovered and taken to a Nazi concentration camp.
1. One song that came to mind when thinking about this assignment was “World” by Five for Fighting. The beginning of the song reminds me of how she gets the diary as a gift and how much potential it has. It also reminds me of how her diary shaped history.
2. I also thought “You’re my Best Friend” by Queen would be well suited to this story because she names her diary Kitty and at one point writes that Kitty is the only one she can truly confide in. Many times she writes things to Kitty that she tells no one else.
3. “Drops of Jupiter” by Train also makes me think of Anne Frank. She is fresh and idealistic and her writing helps us to see what it is like to grow from a girl to a young woman. Even under such stressful circumstances, she still thinks and worries about things that many girls think about and reminds us all that “there’s time to change” and “room to grow.”
4. Another song that reminds me of this book is “Imagine” by John Lennon. It makes you think about the war, the hatred, and how people don’t get along which goes with the wartime setting of the story.
5. One other song that comes to mind is a song that I remember from when I was in Catholic school. We used to sing this song called “I Believe in the Sun” in church. The music is by Carey Landry, but there was a footnote that said the lyrics came from words scratched on a wall in a concentration camp. For some reason that footnote sticks in my head. When I think of what happened to Anne and her family I think of the faith these people must have had even in such unimaginable conditions.