As Helen Keller once said, “Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see a shadow.” This can also mean that the most effective way of getting through a crisis is to have a positive outlook, and not to focus on the negatives. In Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl — a series of journal entries that Anne Frank wrote while she and her family were hiding from the Nazi regime — Anne attempts to have a positive attitude no matter what the circumstances. She fought for her own life and for her loved ones’ lives, and her mental strength is one reason why she made it as long as she did. If she hadn’t looked on the bright side, despite her bleak situation, she would've never had the faith or will to survive.…
Conflicts are faced every single day, but how you approach them can make an enormous difference. According to the law of attraction, if you adopt a positive attitude, good things happen to you, whereas a negative attitude always attracts negative. Having a positive attitude let’s both sides express their opinions, dismisses the unpleasant ideas in one’s mind, and surprisingly can directly affect your life! According to a study done by Dutch students, people having a positive outlook had a seventy-seven percent lower risk of heart disease than pessimists. Also, in StudySync when Anne Frank and Louise engaged their conflicts with a positive attitude, they felt that they had not lost everything and still had hope.…
To begin with, Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, was an influential writer who’s diary became published after the end of World War Two. She was forced to hide in a place called the “Secret Annex,” which was an attic above the building her dad worked in. Because she hid in this concealed location with her family, Anne was able to postpone having to be sent to concentration camps. During her time…
In the article “The Girl Who Lived Forever,” by Kristin Lewis, it talks about Anne Frank's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank was optimistic. First off, Frank had tried to be as funny as she could when she was in the annex. The article states, “She recorded in sharp and often funny detail everything that went on” (Lewis 9). This shows how Anne Frank is optimistic because she was trying to make her diary fun, so that when someone would read it they wouldn’t get bored, and neither herself when writing it.…
Anne Frank was more than very caring for the people she was hiding in the secret annex with. Anne went up against her own mother. Just to defend the people she was rooming with. She cried," Mother you're not putting Peter out. Peter hasn't done anything."…
Anne is just a very kind person period and tries her hardest to be as nice as she can. When she was in hiding, she was polite to the other family & that doctor that came later. She had some rough paths with them but she was still nice and respectful. She was even polite to the cat, even though she was upset because she couldn’t bring her’s, but she was still respectful and kind.during Christmas, Anne made everyone presents and they all loved and appreciated what they got, even if it was expensive they still appreciated it because it was the thought that counted which made them happy.…
In her diary, Anne Frank, much like George Orwell, has a “desire to push the world in a certain direction” and to emphasize the kind of society other people should begin to strive toward. A Jewish teenager living in Holland during the Holocaust, Anne is forced into hiding and must bear witness the atrocities and anti-semitism brought forth by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Using a diary she received for her birthday, she recounts her life during the Holocaust and her views on the world and how they gradually change as time goes on. Anne doesn’t actively strive to change the world or society too an extreme, however she does give the reader insight on how she felt during this time in her life and how things should be different. By using repetition,…
Growing up as a jew in world war II, Anne chose to focus her “foundation” of thoughts on goodness and tranquility in hopes that after it was all over that would be what she was able to return to. She showed her extremely optimistic tone through her words like “in spite of everything” as she recognizes that the situation may not be ideal but that is okay. Anne was a high spirited young girl who is talking here about her future which she believes she will live to see. Cynical:…
“ In those days, it was possible for us to start over and to feel free.” Frank, Otto. Anne’s childhood was very happy and normal, she also had a lot of friends of different religions. Some of her friends were Dutch, German, Jewish, and even Christian. Anne went to school at Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam, she enjoyed her freedom while it lasted until Hitler came to the Netherlands to take…
Many people know the story of Anne Frank, but do they really know the true meaning of why she is so famous and known so much throughout the world? Throughout history there have been many people who have changed the world, but there have been only a few teenagers who have made an impact like Anne Frank. Anne Frank has been an inspiration to many people and has impacted the world in many ways. Anne was like any other child and had a pretty typical childhood. She also had many hobbies, which included reading and writing.…
The most surprising, interesting or useful piece of information learned through reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Eleanor Roosevelt was the difference between life in the Secret Annexe and life today. Firstly, the members of the secret annex did not get the pleasure of three meals a day unlike most people today. For example, Anne states, “We’re going to be hungry, but anything is better than being discovered” (240).…
At the age of four, Anne’s father, mother, and sister moved to Amsterdam and Anne joined them when she reached the age of five. She lived here and enrolled in school. Anne loved school and missed it dearly while she lived in hiding. Her outstanding academics resulted in her acceptance into the Jewish Lyceum. She studied there until her family left to live in hiding.…
Anne Frank was also a very optimistic person, everybody around her considered her to be a happy and lively person:”You know Anne. In half an hour she”ll be out here, laughing and joking”(Pg 67). While Anne was lively not everybody around her was. Otto Frank says, “I’m afraid Anne, we shouldn’t sing the song tonight. ”(Pg 67).…
Having a positive attitude is the best response to conflict, especially in time of war. For example, in the story Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, this young girl that came from a Jewish family who inspired many people to never give up in times of crisis; hiding away from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Another true story comes from letters of Japanese American children in the United States’ internment camps during World War II. Some of these children’s letters were gathered and put in the book, Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference, Louise Owaga writes to Miss Breed about their beautiful journey to the incarcerated camp.…
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt Germany on June 12th, 1929. Being a Jew in Europe during this time was difficult and made her life troublesome. Hitler was searching for people of the Jewish religion everywhere. Due to this, at just thirteen years old, Anne had to go into hiding with her father, mother, and older sister. However, in 1945 when Anne was just fifteen, she and the seven other people living in the annex, were found by the Germans and were taken to various concentration camps.…