Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Alex 5

Where was the fun in hiding? What would you do if you had nothing interesting or more time consuming to do while hiding from near execution? Reading sounds like an optional choice, but what if your books had been left behind when forced into hiding at the last second. Or maybe you're just too depressed to read. Anne surprised me though. Instead of becoming more depressed after losing her strong connections with her family, even her dad, she matured considerably in writing diary entries. She wrote more and more detailed accounts of her daily activities and mentioned some practical philosophy with her lifestyle in hiding and isolation from the rest of the world. Anne didn't give-up on herself. She kept writing because she knew that there was nothing else for her to do except spend quality time with Peter van Daan. Which Anne enjoyed, but she kept writing because it had become her passion.

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  1. But you have to remember that if Anne had let herself become engulfed by fear and self-pity, then the life she led would not have been a life at all. It's better to instead make the best of her plight and to take her mind off of it as much as possible.

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