Reflection Paper
Philosophy of Man
Charina D. Vargas
Everyone of us has its character that either being suppressed or kept in the deepest muddle of ourselves. For a young girl like Anne Frank, writing and sharing the highlighted events in her life during their refuge in the “Secret Annex” located behind a shelf of books in Mr. Otto Frank’s office, Anne’s father, has evidently showcased the distress, longing, hunger, agony, merriment, love, melancholy and other related nouns to describe what they went through. Could you just imagine how complicated it was hiding to a furtive place with all the terror if ever be flaunted and revealed, they’ll be one of those Jews who are under heinous sufferings? And this thing, resounded for more than two years. The survival of the two family, the Frank’s and the van Daan’s plus Mr. Dussel who undeniably forged plenty of courage to keep themselves alive and hoping that at the end of the World War II they would still be alive and will be back from what routines they had before. There were also people who were helping them to have their needs in despite of being fugitive. Furthermore, Anne being a growing adolescent had also a developing affair towards Peter, the son of the van Daan’s who magnified her humankind searching for love. Nonetheless, Anne’s despair in terms of her mother was also explicit in her diary. The entirety of the story of a young adolescent girl who is cheerful, clever, bookworm, and all sorts of description has an impact to every reader of her diary. It was written with honesty and that she has the ingenious craftsmanship in terms of writing. I admire her at that young age; she was able to read a lot of books that is why she has a wider grasp of understanding humanity. If only she had survived, then there is no doubt that she could have been a famous writer or journalist like William Gibson, Earnest Hemmingway, Charles Dickens and the like. Though the consequence is