Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Anne Frank #2

In the novel, or rather diary, The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank herself doesn't have multiple visible or blatant inhumane characters at all. There is one woman, Mrs. Van Daan, who does act inconsiderate and slightly inhumane, but she never abuses the others. She is occasionally cruel to Anne, it seems mostly out of anger at herself or what's going on in the world. Mrs. Van Daan is possibly jealous of Anne in her adolescent beauty. The Nazis and German officers themselves are extremely inhumane. Anne was telling about how the officers would search houses, and if Jewish were found, them and the whole family had to leave the house and go with them to the concentration camps. Margot (Anne's sister) was supposed to go to a concentration camp, but they evaded that fate, leaving a mark on them and leading to potential death if found. Anne speaks more about the humane things rather than the inhumane acts. People have started a black market for the Jewish, having their own currency so that the people who are in hiding can survive. That is extremely humane, and shows how everybody has each other's back, for the most part. The house that Anne and her family takes shelter in is very humane. They submitted a sheet, a sheet to accept more people to where they are. That's extremely considerate of them. The overpowering of acts of humanity over the inhumane acts show how no matter how bad things get, there will always be more rescuers than perpetrators in the end.

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