Louise Ogawa's The Diary Of A Young Girl

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People all around the world judge others for being different than them. People might not do anything or others could go do something about it. People have always been violent but people who are violent just because someone is a different color,race, or religion. But what happens when a whole race is hated just because they are themselves. Having a positive attitude is the best response to conflict, especially in time of war. The Jewish people stayed positive in their time of hardship, like Anne Frank. In her diary, she always did her best to stay positive, and always looked on the bright side. But even though they have always looked on the bright side, they do not have a bright ending. Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl, is the diary of Anne …show more content…
She even says what she did to stay a positive. In her journal entry on July 11, 1942, it says,”Thanks to father-why brought my entire postcard and movie-star collection here beforehand- and to a brush and a pot of glue, I was able to plaster the wall with pictures. It looks much more cheerful.” (Frank 20). She explains what she did to make the environment positive and cheerful. In Dear Miss Breed, Louise Ogawa, a Japanese prisoner in an internment camp, wrote to Ms.Breed about how it is to live in the camp. She describes the conditions but in the end of the letter she says,"If American soldiers can endure hardships so can we!". With this she is saying that even in these conditions, American soldiers went through the same thing so she can do the same. She

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