" 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 think... peace and tranquillity will return again. " -Anne Frank Peace and Tranquility did return, if only for a brief period of time, but she wasn't there to see it. I must admit that "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a disturbing read. It is an anti-thesis of what it sets to represent. Anne's diary reverberates hope, a hope of survival and a hope to live the life she truly deserves. Both of which weren't in her fortune. Some books require you to have the guts to read them and "The Diary of Anne Frank" is one such. It took me weeks to get out of the state of gloom I was pushed in to by reading the book. Anne is like a