The Secret Anne Frank Research Paper

This essay is about World War II and a group of people who hid behind a bookcase and called their secret home The Secret Annex. A woman named Miep Gies helped keep them safe and hid them the best she could. The families that lived there were the Franks and the Van Daan’s. Also a single man who they called Mr.Dussel. They went into hiding in the year of 1943. The place that the Annex was in, is a city called Amsterdam. According to Dictionary.com, the definition of courage is ’’the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, pain, danger, etc’’. One person that lived in the Annex was Anne Frank, and she is a great representation of courage. I believe this because she was not scared to speak her mind, and she was always willing to stand her ground and to not listen to someone if she didn’t want to. In my opinion, she was courageous because she was so brave and so independent at such a young age and always wanted to prove someone wrong. I believe that she was the most courageous because she was scared about being found by the green police but she was less scared than anyone else that lived in that Annex with her. Anne was confident that her and the rest of the people that lived in the Annex would live through the remainder of the war.
A definition of compassion from Dictionary.com ’’a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.’’. Anne Frank was a compassionate person because she truly cared about every single person in that Annex. Anne might have gotten on everyone's nerves and they could’ve got on her nerves. Although, I believe she cared because the way she would talk to everyone. Also when Anne gave everyone in the annex a gift even though she knew she wasn’t going to get