Anne Frank: Why People Are Really Good At Heart

Courage is a word to describe a brave person, and can also describe Anne Frank, perfectly. Today, in our generation, a large sum of people is living negative lives, but Anne Frank was not one of those people. At the time of the Holocaust, from 1933 to 1945, she was a Jewish teenager, and although she was sent to a concentration camp at the age of 15, she was exceedingly positive and always tried to find the best in everyone. Prior to the holocaust, Anne, her friends and family didn’t have to stay in a crunched, secluded annex to stay safe. Their lives were quite difficult, and they were required to be as silent as possible in their hiding spot during most hours of the day. To add even more conflict, no one could make use of the bathroom from eight in the morning to six in the evening.

One of Anne’s better known quotes, “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart,” shows that she was an accepting person. During July, of 1944, she wrote this. Following just a few months after all of these entries were written, Anne was killed in a concentration camp. Anne liked to believe that no one was distasteful, and maybe they had some of the same or similar problems she has. Through it all, Anne became a widely known inspiration for a lot of people as a result of this specific quote. Throughout the course of the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, multiple quotes come from Anne, representing her views on life: the contagiousness of care, love’s ability to spread, and the thought that her generation was not starting the