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Why Did Anne Frank Survive The War Essay

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Anne’s Belief of Survival Anne Frank was a Jew who had to struggle through the horrors of WWII. She had to hide with seven other Jews in a very cramped attic. While she was in hiding, she kept a diary where she recorded all her thoughts. These included her thoughts about her survival of the war. Anne went through periods of feeling good and bad but Anne believes that she will survive the war. The first reason why Anne will survive the war is how she reacts to Allied victories. For example, she became much happier when “Turkey has joined the war”(Frank 71) only to find out that they had not. Finding out that a new nation had joined the war would make many people at that time in the war much happier. Due to the fact that that time of the war the Axis powers had become very successful in the war. Even with a small country such as turkey people in the Allied nations would become much happier. Someone like Anne who was in hiding would be made much happier as she knew that …show more content…

Throughout the diary, she has some entries that talk about what she believes about the war. For example near the end of the diary as the allied forces close in on Holland Anne and her family were so excited. On that day she writes in her diary, “That peace and tranquility will return again”(Frank 264). This quote means that she believes that once this war is over that the world will stop fighting each other and will return to a state of peace and calm. In this same entry, Anne had been writing about the death and destruction that the war had brought to her doorstep. Near the end of the entry, she writes that quote showing that she believes that peace will come again. She wraps the entry by saying, “I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out”(Frank 264). What she is saying is that not only will peace return to the world but she will be able to see this new

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