Anne Frank Generosity

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“One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.” Proverbs 11:24. In “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank, there were people who displayed great selfishness and there were those who displayed generosity. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl whose family went into hiding during the Holocaust. She wrote in her diary about all the events that went on in the Secret Annex. These events define each individual and show various changes in difficult times.

Anne Frank was the girl who wrote the diary, and who was mostly always generous. She displayed generosity when she decided to share her room with Mr. Dussel without too much arguing. “Just as we thought, Mr. Dussel is a very nice man.

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