Dear Miss Breed: The Diary Of A Young Girl

Could being treated miserably and harshly lead to having a positive outlook? The way the Jewish and Japanese were treated was not right, but somehow they looked at the bright side of things. These people were treated differently just because they were born into a bad/ wrong ethnic family. One piece of writing that has to do with this is Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. This young girl went into hiding for a while and she and her family were found. A little while after she died in a camp. Even though she died we still read her diary and go back into her time to see how things were. In most of her diary entries she was speaking in a positive way. The other piece of writing that stuck out to me was Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of The Japanese

This librarian would write books and send them to kids and families in the camps. This made the families feel better about their situation. Joanne was very nice to do this, she took her own time to write and send books to people she doesn't even know. These kids were so happy with what she did that they wrote to her. They told her about their time and experience in the camps. She read them and wrote back to these kids about her feelings towards their letters. In the text it says “Even nine-year-old Jack Watanabe felt cut off from the world:”We are now in a strange place-Poston, Arizona. I doubt whether this is even on the map.” “.
Furthermore, there are several ways to solve conflict, or turn conflict into humor/ positivity. You are putting yourself into the best possible position to make it through. This website shows that when there is a hard time that going through the process and trying to stay positive “will make you a better person”. When things take a turn for the worst just remember that there will always be a light at the end of the tunnel. The website states “You have to eventually pick up the pieces and start moving