Anne Frank Response

Since the beginning of time, people have found infinite amount of ways to mistreat people that they saw as inferior, mostly in the time of conflict. People have been mistreated emotionally and physically just because they were seen as “Different”. There have been able to deal with this mistreatment and recover even if they don’t survive. Those people still influence us today. People like Anne Frank in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Elie Wiesel in Night. They can show us that having a positive attitude is the best response to conflict, especially in the time of war.
Being positive can be shown in real life cases. In Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne frank finds a reason to be optimistic in the Annex. Even living in a …show more content…
Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread behind a dark bank of clouds. But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise...I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”(Frankl ) One of the ways he found the strength to fight to stay alive and not lose hope was to think of his wife. Frankl clearly saw that it was those who had nothing to live for who died quickest in the concentration camp. Although many people would reason that a positive attitude did not help Elie Wiesel and his family, since his mother and his sisters died in Auschwitz, their story still inspires us today. Same goes with Anne Frank, even though she died in a concentration camp, her story still influences us today. In conclusion, staying positive is not only important in our everyday lives, it is also very important for life-or-death situations. Having hope can strengthen us mentally which