Considering the story of Anne Frank, perhaps this extraordinary human being started to become irritated that she and her family were suffering just because they were Jews, so her inspirational quote was directed towards all living souls. “How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” stated Anne Frank (Frank). Sadly at age 16 when the Natzi’s found her hiding out in “The Secret Annex," Anne was trapped in a tragedy until her last breath. So, Frank’s message might represent that people in more developed countries are not supporting others enough. Therefore, “nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” However, Anne may be addressing the people that do wait. Anne Frank …show more content…
Some of the most influential citizens in history include Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, William Shakespeare, and many more. These very important people relate back to Frank’s quote because they made a positive impact in their own time and helped out humanity (Pettinger). Furthermore, they had a powerful effect on different aspects of life. William Shakespeare for example, sent very powerful messages to his readers in poems and plays. Martin Luther King Jr. altered civil rights in the world. Without him, darker skinned people would currently be treated disrespectfully. There is also Abraham Lincoln who helped end slavery as president of the United States during the Civil War. Lincoln prevented many innocent people from a living terrible life. So many other historical figures modified the world in a positive way, but there are also people that changed the world for the worse. One of the most known is Adolf Hitler. Being a dictator of Nazi Germany, Hitler killed around six million Jews. Anne Frank was also one of the victims captured by Karl Josef Silberbauer, an Austrian police officer (Tejvan). Anne Frank struggled during her childhood, but her conflicts lead to an inspiring quote that influenced the lives of many citizens. “I am to change the world!! I want to kick out all war/guns, drugs, smoking, alcohol and alcohol abuse, bullying, racism, discrimination” stated an internet user inspired by Frank’s quote (“Should People Try to Change the World?”). Anne’s quote was partly derived from those significant historical figures and remains a very powerful message that is currently affecting average citizens around the
There are many stories, diaries and books from the time of The Holocaust but arguably the most famous of them all is the story of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a teenage Jewish girl who went into hiding in her fathers offices in Amsterdam, The Netherlands when the Nazis called up her older sister, Margot (Anne ??). Just before the call up, Anne had started to write a “diary” which she continued to write when she went into hiding with her family. Throughout the book Anne writes that her worst nightmare is to be discovered (Anne ??). The Franks when into hiding in 1941 in the Annex of the Opekta offices and were arrested by the Nazis in ???. After such a long period of time in hiding there are many suspects for who betraye...
Anne Frank was my age, 15, when she was murdered by Nazis during World War II. I can’t even fathom what she must have gone through in the months before her death. Through her diary, one can understand the hardships of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany occupied countries
Anne Frank also known as Annelies Marie Frank was a sixteen year old girl who got murdered during the Holocaust. She was born in the city of Frankfurt in Germany to her parents Otto and Edith Frank. Anne Frank had an older sister who was three years older than she was and her name was Margot Betti Frank. The Franks were known as a very liberal family who were also classified as a middle class family since their ancestors lived in Germany. In 1933 the Franks decided to move towards Amsterdam since Germany was being overruled by the Nazis. While the family had adjusted to Amsterdam, Otto Frank was really focused on his business since he was new into the city. Anne and Margot were also getting adjusted to the school system and when they were well adjusted they started to have friends who were Jewish and non Jewish. Six years later which was in 1939, Anne’s and Margot’s grandmother decided to join them in Amsterdam as well and be reunited with her two beautiful nieces. In March, 1940 a horrible trajedy happened Amsterdam which was that Amsterdam had been attacked by the Nazis who overrul...
The Franks were your general German family and Anne was your general German girl. This family of four lived in Germany, Mr. Frank was an average business man, Mrs. Frank was an average mother and Margot and Anne were average students. The one thing that made them different in the eyes of Hitler, was the fact that they were Jewish.
The settings of two very similar stories can make them seem completely different. In a similar way, Sonia and Anne from the novel I Promised I Would Tell by Sonia Weitz and the play The Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett are Jewish girls in the Holocaust who are struggling to survive. Both of their lives are at risk each day and throughout both of the stories, the girls are put in many difficult and dangerous situations and settings. Although these girls are both living in fear of losing their lives, Anne lives in a somewhat comfortable room for the first couple years of her struggle while Sonia is living in a horrifying Concentration Camp.
Anne Frank stated in her diary that "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." As a Jewish teenager during the time of the Holocaust, Anne had been hiding in an attic with her parents and sister, as well as the Van Daans, their son, and Mr Dussel. This time was extremely rough for her entire race. This quote shows how optimistic she really was. She had the attitude to think that even underneath all of the hatred that not only the Nazis beheld, but perhaps also the people that she was hiding with for years, there was at least a small amount of good in them. With that optimism, came the strong hope that she had. She was completely aware that the Nazis were not good people, but she refused to take that as a
Sina Salemian Salemian 1 HS English 2;Period 3 Ms.Matthews January 10, 2014 Anne Frank During The Holocaust Anne Frank is a strong young girl that lived during the Holocaust in Amsterdam, Germany. She lived in a very bad time during the Holocaust, where she either had to hide or go to a concentration camp. Anne Frank is a normal girl that should be going to school and not be in hiding from the Nazis and should not have to take the sacrifices of having no friends, no ability to be free and to express her religion. I consider Anne a hero because of all the dedication to staying free and not having to be under a dictatorship.
Marilyn Monroe is an icon that is idolized by many and had a great impact on pop culture. She didn’t have the best childhood and had a lot of up and downs in her life. Marilyn Monroe was born in California in 1926. She was named Norma Jeane Mortenson after a popular actress at the time. Her mother Gladys Baker was mentally ill, so she had to put Monroe in foster care. She lived in a foster home until she was seven years old. She had two other siblings from her mother’s first marriage. She never met them because her mom’s first husband took them to live with him in Kentucky.
...tor and taught us his thoughts behind the genocide he instructed. Learning about World War II showed us how with the U.S. entering the war and the Allies teaming up, Hitler was stopped and the Holocaust ended. Anne Frank was a very important person to learn about because her story let us into the mind of a Jew at the time. She was an example of how discrimination impacts people, which is another very important reason as to why we learn about the Holocaust. Becasue of Adolf Hitler's beliefs of what a perfect society would look like, millions of innocent people were killed. We learned that discrimination can be very hurtful and lead to very drastic measures like the Holocaust and other types of segregation and genocides. It is important to know that it doesn't matter about someone else's beliefs, customs, or culture because everyone is and should be treated equally.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live during World War 2? Life during World War 2 was torture if you were jewish, especially if you were a kid. Felix Salingar from Then by Morris Gleitzman and Anne Frank both knew what it was like. Their stories both describe the lives of jewish children hiding from the Nazis, in fear of being taken and killed. Throughout both of their stories, many character traits were discovered about them that show how they are similarly affected by the events in their stories. Anne Frank and Felix Salingar have many similarities, some of which stand out more than others.
Anne Frank, Jeanne Wakatsuki and Elie Wiesel all are greatly affected by the war, but in different milieus and in different scenarios. Anne Frank was a 13-year-old Jewish girl who was thrown into one of the worst periods in the history of the world: the Holocaust. Though she went through awful things that many people will never experience, she always kept the faith that there was still some good in everyone. She once said, “Despite everything, I still believe people are truly good at heart.” Her diary, which she kept while her family was in hiding from the Nazis, shows the triumph of her spirit over the evil in the world even through the pain of adolescence.
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Anne quoted in The Diary Of Anne Frank, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." Anne may have perceived this way due to the fact that everyone was down because of the possible imprisonment of the Frank family and The Van Daan's. She may also feel this way because she was starting to regret everything she had said to everyone who was staying with the Frank's. The last idea I think that Anne felt that way is because she might have felt that Adolf Hitler was pressuring his military to do something they knew was wrong. This is because Hitler was a very brutal human. There are yet many more influential quotes spoken by Anne, and still, most of us have no idea of what they mean. Given the fact that some people study famous quotes, but a majority of the American civilization knows little or nothing about Anne Frank, let alone her quoted words. This can cause riots between modern day Germans and Jews. On the last page of the play, Anne stated, "Despite everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." Even though Anne said, "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart", she means that even after all of the bad things they have done to her, she still believes people mean to
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Through out the novel The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank there were many themes that were expressed. On theme includes, in the world there some evil individuals, but inside of most people there is a least a some good. To begin with, I choose this theme because of the evil groups during World War II that took away Jews. Some Germans during the war did not have any good in them. One group of the hateful people that worked for Hitler and were called the Gestapo's. They took away hundreds of Jews to camps. At the camps they were not separated by gender or age and everyone sleep together. As the text states, “...Jewish friends are being taken away by the dozen. These people are treated by the Gestapo without a shred of decency, being loaded