“Good literature substitutes for experience which we have not ourselves lived through.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

This quote relates to Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, by letting the reader experience what it must have been like to go from being a young girl living a carefree life to one living a life of fear and uncertainty. You glimpse what Jewish people in hiding went through during the Holocaust. Although hopefully we will never experience something like this in today’s world, it allows us to feel empathy for those people who did go through all the terrors of it and to see human side to the numbers of people who died. It also relates in another way to the book I’m reading, because throughout her diary Anne continues to write about different books she’s read and how books and studying are the only things that seem to make time pass in the Secret Annex. Anne realizes the escape that books can bring and find comfort in reading.