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Microblog 2: That... Ended Quickly

          So I finished the book... and let me tell you, it was not the ending I expected. I have been reading through the book, developing a personality for Anne Frank, and all the other people of the Annex. With some minor events happening along the way, but of the 338 pages, none of them had as much that happened in it as the Aftermath. Based on the context of when the book was written, it was clear that there were only two outcomes, with one being much higher of a chance than the others. But I thought that I'd be given some insight about the outcome than I actually was. Due to the book being a Diary, it makes sense that the author may not have been able to write about what happened. Yet the short, 2 pages of context that happened to all of the residents really differ from how Anne was writing throughout this. She was very optimistic, even with the conflicts between people, and overall seemed more bored than anything, yet the description of what happened to her just blew my mind. In one short paragraph, it told of how she was transferred to a concentration camp and eventually killed. With no "sugar-coating", or anything to make it seem less terrible than it actually was. My jumble of words may seem hard to read and have no end goal, but I am writing this directly after finishing the book so that I can get my true reaction. So to put it simply, I am pretty astonished, to think that the girl I was observing and learning about for all this time was diminished so quickly. It's heartbreaking.

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