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People Are Really Good At Heart In The Diary Of Anne Frank

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In the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, Mr. Frank allowed Mr. Dussel to live with them temporarily in the Secret Annex. Peter and Anne fell in love. Lastly, Miep told the Secret Annex people that the Invasion has begun. What do all of these have to do with the quote, “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” All of these acts have to deal with people doing some form of good, despite everything that is happening.

On page 304 in the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, Mr. Frank allowed a new Jewish friend, Mr. Jan Dussel, to live with them in the Secret Annex. He is a dentist, and is in need of a secret hiding place. This relates to Anne’s quote, “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” This relates to Anne’s quote because Mr. Frank was a good man, and he understood that Mr. Dussel was in a tough situation and needed somewhere to stay. He openly invited him to live in the Secret Annex, without hesitation. …show more content…

I must confess that I actually live for the next meeting. Is there anything lovelier than to sit under the skylight and feel the sun on your cheeks and have a darling boy in your arms?” This indicates that Anne has strong feelings for Peter. Also, in the narration part of the Diary, it quotes, ”For a second, Anne stands looking up at Peter, longing for him to kiss her. As he makes no move she turns away. Then suddenly, peter grabs her awkwardly in his arms, kissing her on the cheek. Anne walks out dazed.” This event relates to Anne’s quote because Peter and Anne were able to find love, in a world of hate and

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(Peter goes after her. Anne, with his shoes in her hand, runs from him, dodging behind her mother.)” This clarifies, Anne is more of a fun type of character and Peter gets mad easily from her pranks. It significantly tells us that that part of the story was a couple months in hiding and they got along more. That’s important because it has detail on how it shows their relationship bond and gives it extra character development.

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In the movie Anne feels like she has to be with Peter more often. She feels safer with Peter in the movie. In conclusion, there are different versions of the Diary of Anne Frank, like plays and movies, and they are not all the same. The different versions, although, also have many similarities.

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Anne says, “I wish you had a religion, Peter... Oh, I don’t mean you have to be an Orthodox...or believe in Heaven and Hell... I just mean some religion…it doesn’t matter what. Just something to believe in!”

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In the text The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett the theme is, you can always find the positive in a negative situation. In the beginning of the text, Anne Frank talks about how she is going into hiding because the Germans invaded. The Frank family had to go into hiding while the Nazis took over with another family. Anne and her family are forced to leave a lot of their belongings at home. Anne thinks that this is going to be really challenging and very unfortunate.

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Can you imagine? Even though you’re young, that decision that we had to make. And here we promised that we will die for each other, but we couldn’t keep that promise under threat of death." the quote intelles that being Altruistic causes more harm to others than it does well. This theme is further shown in the documentary The short life of Anne Frank a man by the name of Arnold van den Bergh was a prominent Jewish notary who is desperate to save his own family and sacrificed others to do

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All throughout the novel, Diary of Anne Frank, and in our current world people are doing awful, and selfish things because they are not good at heart. People constantly find themselves in lousy situations, or with a problem. The first option that they tend to do is to blame their

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Another Anne Frank quote is, "Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basis goodness. " I feel this quote is displayed by Otto Frank's employees, who protected the family for two years. The employees showed kindness and support to the Frank family by providing them news, food and company during these challenging times. They also kept the business running while Otto and his family were in

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