Question

"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 into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the day will come when I shall be able to carry them out."

Imagery is when an author uses the senses to bring the text to life. What senses does Anne utilize within this passage? How does the use of imagery affect the reader? Explain.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

This sounds like Anne Frank, the wonderful teenager who endured confinement during the Nazi quest to kill all Jews everywhere. Instead of looking down, she looked up.

if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end,

She is not unaware of what is going on in the outside world.

I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too.

Anne was a mid teen when she suffered all this. Does it not move you almost to tears that you have to wonder how it is that she, so young, had to have this kind of meaningful discussion about good and evil at her age? Isn't it remarkable that she is fighting to maintain her faith in humanity -- to believe that they were at heart good when all around her, fighting that idea, was an environment of confusion, misery and death.