Question

Read the two texts below and answer this question:

How is Miep Gies’s life a “resonant affirmation of young Anne’s belief in humanity?
Text 1: Anne’s diary, Saturday, July 15, 1944
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up to the heavens, I think it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”

Text 2: A righteous woman: Miep Gies protected Anne Frank and preserved her precious diary
The New York Daily News, January 10, 2010

Miep Gies always downplayed her role as one of the brave band of friends who sheltered Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II.

"I simply did what I could to help," Gies said on her 100th birthday last year.

In the end she could not save Anne and her family from betrayal to the Nazis, even by risking all to protect them. But it was Gies who preserved the young girl's diary that will echo through the ages as an expression of faith in the face of incomprehensible evil.

Gies was an employee of Otto Frank, Anne's father. He was the sole member of the family to survive the death camps, where his wife and both daughters died. When he returned to Amsterdam, Gies gave him the work of literature that his younger child had fashioned while concealed in an annex of an Amsterdam building.

After that, Miep lived quietly in the Netherlands and was persuaded to tell her story in memoirs published when she was past 80. She died Monday, the last of the four friends who hid the Franks and four other Jews. Her life was a resonant affirmation of young Anne's belief in humanity.

Answer 1

It is said that Miep's life was a resonant affirmation of Anne's belief in humanity because she was good at heart by hiding Anne and her family from the Nazis. Miep surely believed that one day humanity would be nice with the Frank family and other jews as they deserved. She had faith in humanity . She had high hopes. As did Anne until the last moment. They both believed in humanity besides the atrocities they had to experience. In spite of being rejected by many people (Miep for hiding jews, and Anne for being jew), thet still believed in humanity.

Answer 2

Answer:

Miep Gies' life is an affirmation of Anne's belief in the goodness of humanity, because she helped the Jews to remain hidden, even if it was very dangerous for her, besides, she helped them without expecting anything in return and without receiving no advantage.

Explanation:

As you may already know, Anne Frank and her family were victims of the Nazism that reigned during the Second World War and put all Jews present in Europe in a very dangerous situation. Not just the Jews, but any citizen who helped them would be arrested, tortured and possibly killed at the hands of the Nazis.

Anne Frank and her family will try to escape this cruel fate by hiding in the hope that they will not be found until the war is over. However, it would be impossible to stay hidden for so long without the help of non-Jews who could walk the streets freely. Who helped Anne Frank's family were the employees of her father's company, among them Miep Gies, who courageously helped the whole Frank family without receiving anything for it and taking a serious risk of life.

When Anne Frank's diary became a famous book, many people praised Miep Gies and claimed that she was a true hero, however Gies never thought he did more than his duty to help those in need. This confirms the certainty that Anne had that even in the face of all the sadness and hopelessness that the war brought, there were still good people in the world, who were not corrupted by evil.