to meet anne frank...

The planet Earth is home to billions of human beings, each one with their own style, personality, and outlook. Out of all of these people, past, present, or future, Anne Frank is the person I would treasure meeting. Anne Frank has a sort of draw, to me, something that I've always felt. I admire Anne because of her beliefs regarding human beings, her superb writing abilities, and also for her story.

Anne Frank had a certain belief that humans are not truly bad, and that inside, every person is truly good. This outlook is so impeccable because it came from a teenaged girl in a period where she was discriminated against. Through all the horrid, wretched things that Anne was put through, she had a strong insight, an orb of luminescence thrust up into an abstract world of sheer darkness and cruelty – a seemingly rare characteristic in some people.

Aside from her outlook, Anne certainly had a way with words. She had an impeccable writing talent. It has provided inspiration for many people, including myself. I love writing. Words seem to come to me, pouring, flowing, instantly appearing in my mind. They rush like a waterfall, roaring and spilling out, creating sentences, paragraphs, entire pages of my creation. The ability to write is a gift, and it was anything but absent in Anne. Anne was able to describe two years spent hidden away in an Annex in a wildly engulfing manner, the words wrapping around the reader, carrying them to the Annex. While conveying the emotions filling her setting, Anne was able to convey an internal conflict. She was transitioning from a girl to a woman amidst a world torn apart by war. Her story was told during a part of her life where she was beginning to understand the world, but also was forced to understand.

Anne was thrown into a world of damage, death, and hatred. Her family and others she cared about were murdered because of their religion. She was in no paradise. She was in a torturous, cruel, hell. What Adolf Hitler and the Nazis did was vulgar and horrid, an experience to which no common American teenager could relate. Living through that terror had to be demeaning and terrifying. People stood by helpless as their friends and loved ones were slaughtered or sent to the deadly gas chambers. They stole to keep themselves and those they cared for alive. People were lied to and greatly mistreated for things they didn't do, and Anne had to go through this as a young teenaged girl.

The main reason I would like to meet Anne Frank is to hear her story from her. To hear her voice, with real emotions and real words. I want her perspective, with her insight as rare as an iridescent blue moon. Anne Frank had the ability to inspire generations, and that's exactly what she did. She inspired me. To hear her voice, her story, loud and true, first-hand, I believe could move a nation, and that experience would be a gift.   -hs