DUMP THE OSTRICH POLICY Re: Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl (Sebastian Eriksson Art "Ignoring the ignorance" ) After a long time, I finally put myself to the task of reading Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. Having heard so many negative reviews from my fellow mates in 10th form about the book being terribly boring, flimsy, infantile, dull and monotonous, I never could bring myself to pick it up. However, once I held the pages open in my hands, then I simply couldn’t put it down. I have been so utterly moved by the diary, that I had to share my thoughts and make it known to everyone who’s looking for something real and soul-stirring. It’ll be inhuman to judge it because it isn’t a literary piece of work published to feed the critics their most awaited snack. It’s the heart of a young girl poured out on sheets of paper at the most dreadful stage of her life. I remember reading it in one of her entries, “Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.” A t...
