If extraterrestrial life invaded Earth and commenced the extermination of civilized mankind would you believe that the alien life forms were genuinely good at heart? Strangely enough, the play The Diary of Anne Frank ends with the statement, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." These words were discovered in an entry in her diary dated July nineteen forty-four, several months before she perished in a concentration camp. Comprehending the circumstances in Germany during this period of time, I believe this statement conveys that Anne Frank was a hopeful, positive, and forgiving individual. During the nineteen twenties up until the late forties, Adolf Hitler had been granted a full …show more content…
On page three hundred and fifty, she states, "It 'll pass, maybe not for hundreds of years, but someday I still believe." This quote displays that Anne is hoping that the Holocaust will disappear and that it is not permanent. Another piece of evidence that proves she is hopeful when she states on page three hundred fifty during the same conversation with Peter, "someday when we 're outside again." In this quote, she shows that she hopes for them to no longer need to hide but instead be outside again. Lastly, in an earlier part of the play, on page three hundred thirty-four she states, "I am longing for everything." This quote illustrates that Anne is hopeful that she will come out of hiding and perform all the activities she performed before the unfortunate events. Perhaps when she illustrates that she still believes that people are genuinely good at heart, she is hoping that the Nazis are not as cruel as they seem. Secondly, I believe that her unusual quote demonstrates her positivity and optimism. During a conversation with Peter on page three-hundred fifty, she says, "Listen to us, going at each other like a couple of stupid grown up." This quote demonstrates Anne 's positivity by showing that she doesn 't want to argue or have a conflict with Peter because she doesn 't want to be negative. Furthermore, earlier in the same conversation on page three hundred fifty she states, "I think the world may be going through a phase." This quote
Anne is a very positive person. In the collection book on page 277, Anne stated a quote saying “ I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people, I want to go on living even after my death!” By stating this quote, Anne is saying that she just wants to be remembered even after she
Towards the end of Anne’s diary she writes “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in
Throughout the entire book Anne remains hopeful that her life will get better. Ever through starvation, boredom, and fear, Anne is still hopeful at heart. When the family arrives at the annex and tries to make the best of the situation by saying, “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains” (171). Earlier on in the novel Anne had chosen to focus on the beauty beneath the fog of war and death. She keeps telling herself that There is still beauty in the world. Later in the story Anne makes a mature comment, she said, “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
Remember that she is only a young teenager, and that she’s likely not aware of all the danger she’s truly in. Because of this, there is a huge impact on how she thinks of others. It’s a lot easier for her to believe that people are all good at heart this way. In her diary, Anne once said “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains,” this quote shows how Anne recognizes all the hate and sadness in the world, but she always tries to look past it and see the beauty that is still there. This also shows Anne’s viewpoint on people, and how, unlike her, most people first see the flaws of other people, but she always tried to look past the poor parts and see the best in people. Also this is seen in the play, such as we saw how she is caring for her sister and father. That is the last piece of evidence I have that shows that Anne was a positive
The quote reveal that her views on life were optimistic. Another quote by Anne Frank states, "If we begin thinking of all the horrors in the world, we're lost." This quote was written in the Anne Frank Play on Act 2, line 470. The quote reveals more about her life. It reveals that Anne Frank was a girl living in a world that was slowly crumbling, but had high hopes even with the outlook of her situation. The world crumbling is an indirect reference to how she was living during the Holocaust part of World War II. This also reveals that she was an
She was always jovial, she never let anything or anyone bring her down. One way this is stated is in lines 463-466 of the play, “I slept, father. Wasn’t that funny? I knew it was the last night in my own bed, and yet I slept soundly.”.This quote shows that Anne was hopeful. She was hopeful that she would find another home, or that she as well as her family would be coalesced no matter the obstruction that stood in front of them. She was hopeful, that she along with her sister would stay together through thick and thin. She was hopeful, that she would survive. Optimism is extravagantly mundane in adolescent generations. They always want to have fun and they always find a way that they can, but Anne was different. She was always perky, consequently, she always made everyone smile. In the play, “The Diary of Anne Frank”, while everyone was down and blue about their situation, Anne was content. Against all odds, she stayed that way, she was blissful to be a Jewish girl, she was grateful to have kenned the people she did, accordingly, she was ecstatic to have been a component of something more astronomically immense. It didn’t matter what she was doing, she was joyous while doing it. Anne was a very hopeful person, so she always saw the good in
One of the quotes that sticks for me in the chapter is her friend telling her “it’s not like you don’t have a choice, because you do; you can either type or kill yourself.” Although this is a very dramatic way of wording it, it speaks to what writing was like for Anne. She talks about writing multiple drafts feeling like it was the end of the world. Feeling like she was going to be judged or out of a job because she thought her reviews sucked. Instead of giving
She fed off of people’s love and compliments. She changed the parts of herself that people did not like, so that she would be liked by everyone. She tried to be perfect, but the truth is no one is. All I’m trying to say is that she was saying she wanted to be individual, but then later she would tell us that she would be scared to show a side of her because other people didn’t like it. Many people in our day are the same way as Anne. We often want to please everybody else instead of being our own person. I wish that all years come that we will learn to accept ourselves for who we
In the text, it states, “Have we all lost faith? All courage? A moment ago we thought they’d come for us. We were sure it was the end. But it wasn’t the end. We’re alive, safe. We thank Thee, oh Lord our God, that in Thy infinite mercy Thou hast again seen fit to spare us. (Goodrich, Hackett, and Frank 580). The Franks and their company still celebrated Hanukkah, or practiced their religion during the Holocaust. This means that they hadn’t given up and were hoping for a miracle. This cheered them up and gave them hope in a bad situation. This also shows that anything can happen if you believe it will because they kept saying they were going to live and they did. Also, in the text, it states, “It’ll be hard, I know. But always remember this, Anneke. There are no walls, there are no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind...As a matter of fact between us Anneke being here for us has a certain advantage to you. For instance, the battle you had with your mother on the subject of overshoes. But now you'll see that now you don’t have to wear the overshoes” (Goodrich, Hackett, and Frank 549). Mr. Frank tells Anne that there are advantages to being locked up. She won’t have to wear the boots she doesn’t like, or practice the piano. He is basically telling her to look on the bright side, or to find good in the
She told Peter what she thinks about the situation they are in and everything that's happening and it's unbelievably sophisticated. Anne deliberates, "If you'd only look at it a part of a great pattern... that we're just a little minute," (431). She has grown up so much that she is able to look at all the horrible things being done and say that in the end, none of it matters. Her loved ones and her are inevitably going to be killed or are already being killed. She disregards it as being something that won't be important in a hundred or so years. Most kids her age would never think that their lives don't matter because they think the world revolves around them and she is incredibly mature to think the opposite of that. In another part of the play while Anne and her family are being taken away to be killed by the Nazis, Anne writes in her diary, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart," (434). For someone who is so young and who has been through what she has and still think that people really are good is amazing. Adults look back at the Holocaust and thought Hitler and the Nazis were awful people yet Anne lived through it and still believes that they really are good people. That is an amazing and beyond incredibly mature thing to think. Anne has become so much more mature by the end of the
During the Holocaust the Jews didn’t have much hope. So when Anne writes “ I’m going to be a famous dancer or singer...or something wonderful, ” (pg.502) it shows that she thought she was going to live past the Holocaust. Having these images in her head of what she wanted to
I believe that Anne had hopes because she would say that some day she will be free without anyone telling her anything.Also that nobody will tell her what to do and when to do it. Anne hoped that the world would change and that nothing horrible will happen. Anne tried her to keep believing in what she wanted. I think that Anne was a very good girl and that she didn’t let anything keep her down, even while living in the annex there was good days, but also not so good days. She had really big hopes for things she wanted to do when the war was over.
“We’ve all done things we are ashamed of...Stop it now! Let's all be happy.” Pg. 506. This quote shows that they are trying to be positive. They are trying to be positive and look on the bright side of things.This shows the people are truly good at heart because they are trying to get each other to be positive and try to be optimistic. Mr Frank: “It seems strange to say this, as if anyone could be happy in a concentration camp. But Anne was happy in the camp in Holland where they first took us. After two years of being locked up . . . she could be out . . . in the fresh air she loved.” pg. 77. Anne was seeing the good in the really bad situation that she was in at the time. This shows how people are really good at heart because she is trying to reassure herself and others that everything will work out and be ok in the end. Anne: I think the world is going through a phase, the way I was with Mother. It’ll pass, maybe not for hundreds of years, but someday . . . “ Despite everything that is happening Anne still believes that it will be over soon and that everything will be ok. This shows how people are good at heart because she is being positive and having
In the text, Anne tries very hard to care for her mother, and not be so mean. Anne used to be extremely furious with her mother. This was only because they did not thoroughly understand each other. Anne knew that her mother loved her, yet she also believes, “...she landed in so many unpleasant situations through me…”
“I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and the peace and tranquility will return again” (Frank 276-277). What kind of girl would be able to say such a beautiful statement with the possibility of death looming? Anne Frank could view the world in a way that is becoming near impossible- positively. She was a teenage Jewish girl who lived in Amsterdam, Holland during World War II. She and her family went into hiding in 1942 and were soon joined by the Van Pelses (Enzer and Solotaroff-Enzer, eds. xxiii). While she was in the attic, she wrote her diary, which would eventually become a famous historical document. She recorded her grumblings about her attic mates’ behaviors and her feelings about herself and the Van Pelses’ boy. Through the two year period she was in the attic, she wrote surprisingly philosophical observations of the world, and she also learned a vast amount of information about herself. After her death, her father published the diary, and “Anne Frank” quickly became a name that everyone knew. Although Anne’s time on Earth was brief and short-lived, her legacy has inspired many through her well-written diary.