Summary Of First Read: Dear Miss Breed

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When you go through life, you will be facing some problems or conflicts. As you are facing those conflicts, it is good to have a positive attitude towards it. You should have a positive attitude when responding to conflict is because in First Read: Dear Miss Breed had a character named Louise that was staying positive the whole time throughout the conflict they had to face. The conflict they faced was having to live through hiding from the Nazis from capturing them and concentration camps they were put in because of their religion and what they believed in (Jewish). Even our biggest leaders had positive perspectives through the conflicts that they had faced. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. was a black leader who had to face segregation because of his color, but still managed to stay positive and help try and desegregate society and bring the blacks and whites together. He did that to try and save his friends and family’s and many others to be able to be equal to one another in the future and wouldn’t have to face the act of segregation that he had to face. To begin with, Anne Frank from The Diary of Anne Frank had to hide throughout the time the German’s were looking for Jews since Anne is Jewish and …show more content…
He didn’t like that everyone was segregated by their looks and the color they are. He didn’t want the future generations to have to live through that and was trying to be positive by speaking up and try to make things right. In one of his speeches he said, “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” He didn’t want to hate the white people who were rude to him in many ways. He didn’t like to hate anyone for what they have done. He wants everyone to love one another, even though they look different. We all look different on the outside, but we are all the same in the insides. He believes everyone can learn to love and not hate just like

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