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Anne Frank: Are People Really Good At Heart?

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Anne Frank stated in her diary that “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” As a Jewish teenager during the time period of the Holocaust, Anne had been hiding in an attic with her parents and sister, as well as the Van Daans, their son Peter, and Mr Dussel. Anne is the most well known Jewish person from the Holocaust because of her personality. She was such a strong individual through such horrible times, and this is what made her such a role model for people even up to this day. This time was extremely rough for her entire religion. The German Nazis were horrible people who hated people of Jewish religion. Hitler and his army made it their goal to kill off any inferior groups so that his people could …show more content…

Everything that she had been through up to the point of writing this famous quote in her diary, was very rough. Knowing the amount of hatred that she experienced, you would not expect her to think that after everything they did, the Nazis may still be good at heart. In the play The Diary Of Anne Frank, she said, “I think that the world is going through a phase, the way I was with mother.” This statement describes her hope that she had for her own future, as well as her family’s. She was optimistic that one day the world’s phase of negativity will end, just like her negativity towards her mother had ended. Being in her shoes during that time period, I would never be able to think that the army trying to kill off my race, is actually good. Anne realized this, but she didn’t want to bring herself to think only in that way. The thought of one day being taken away from her family by the Nazis is heart wrenching. The one way she could get the nasty thoughts of Nazis out of her head was by thinking positively. Living her life believing that the Nazis may actually be good deep down is much more comforting than thinking each day about how they are the cruelest people on Earth, and are targeting her race. All she could do was be optimistic that they will turn out to be good someday. Her relationship with Peter during hiding was this way, hatred at first, but good in the end. This most likely gave her the hope that maybe it could be the same with the

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