The Diary of a Young Girl

returned to Amsterdam where he received Anne’s diary that was saved by Miep Gies. After Otto Frank read the diary he was amazed of how gifted his daughter was as a writer and also how well it told their story. He felt the need to have the diary published. It was first published in Holland where it was titled Het Archeterhous which translated to The House Behind in June 25, 9147. The diary was later published in America titled Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl in 1952. Since the first time it…

metamorphism of vampires; they went from being scary to dreamy. With her credible background of having a Ph.D. in cinematic studies, she does a wonderful job convincing her audience that movies like Twilight and popular TV shows like True Blood, Vampire Diaries, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have changed the “normal” vampire-based storyline. Backstein’s article argues the appeal…

differences. The novel has gained a lot of recognition and success that many adaptations were made such as The Lizzie Bennet Diaries created by Hank Green and Bernie Su which also follows the same storyline, but in the form of vlogs uploaded on YouTube, a huge video-sharing website. However, Pride and Prejudice reflect a traditional and conventional society while The Lizzie Bennet Diaries presents a much more realistic and modern world of today’s society. A study of these two works in this…

Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls is a series of novels by Meg Cabot the New York Times bestselling author that is best known for writing over 80 novels in the children's, young adult, and adult genres. Meg was born in Bloomington, Indiana but lived in Carmel, California and Grenoble in France before she moved to New York after getting her fine arts bachelors degree from Indiana University. She worked fro a decade at the New York University where she was assistant residence hall director an…

In Lori Gottlieb’s novel, Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self, Lori has always been a different, unique and smart eleven year old girl. However, throughout her childhood, she has faced many challenges because of the influence that society had on her. Thus, Lori eventually got the impression that she is fat and needs to be thin like the women surrounding her and especially women in the magazines. Being different and intelligent was not easy for Lori. At first, Lori enjoyed her childhood;…

As a student, I have always asked myself the same question in every grade, “Why does my English suck?” In school, I was the student that would just get by with C’s and barely grasp the concepts that I’ve been taught. I could not understand why I wasn’t good in English, but it was my first language. Then I realized that I wasn’t great in English because I disliked reading, and that was one significant way of learning it. Eventually, I found myself in a classroom full of students who can barely…

to a genre that is usually used to set moral and good examples to children (“Mental Floss”). When the first book was a big success he wrote “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There”, it was based on many of the games he played with the girls. Humpty Dumpty, the White Knight, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee make more appearances in this second book than they did in Alice in Wonderland (“Encyclopedia of World Biography”.). Lewis Carroll was a weird and amazing author who showed the…

Many people, events, values shaped Malala into becoming the person she is today. Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, was an activist himself. Like Malala, he believes girls' have the right to the same education possibilities as boys. Her own name was a symbol to her. In the Pashtun culture, Malalai of Maiwand was a heroine who was killed for raising her voice against the British tyranny during the 19th century. Ziauddin chose this name for his daughter, believing she would also instill change during…

Legends die young, their deaths tragic, and they remain beautiful in the eyes of all. This beauty is explored in media when they die, their tragic deaths delved into and discussed in reports. The essence of innocence found in the young, tainted by the tragedy of their deaths. The immortality they achieve, only achieved when they’ve attained permanent youth after death. Older men and women find their beauty fades, their innocence disappears, and immortality impossible. Approximately fifty-six…

things the men of the platoon carry. The things the men carried depended on several aspects; “The things they carried were largely determined by necessity.” (O’Brien 2). They carried many necessities, tangible and intangible from dope to guilt, a diary to terror, a letter to love, each having “their own mass and specific gravity” (20). “Love” is narrated by (fictional) Tim O’Brien and is set in present-day, after the war. Jimmy Cross has gone to visit O’Brien and they talk of the things they…