• Miep Gies and the Diary of Anne Frank: A Light in The Dark

     

    Essays2 Literature

Evaluation:
Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Miep Gies and the Diary of Anne Frank: A Light in The Dark', 1.
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"Miep Gies: A Light in the Dark"
Imagine a world where you are forced to hide and protect your friends from a plague that has devoured most of Europe already, an army that kills people for no reason but hateful discrimination. Unfortunately, this was a reality for Hermine "Miep" Santrouschitz-Gies. In the play The Diary of Anne Frank and Related Readings, by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, Miep fulfills what she believes what is her duty; she felt that "permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty...can be worse than losing your life" (Scholastic 1). Anne Frank, along with t…

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