The first point to be made is that Anne knows people can be extremely resilient, and will often try to the good things during hard times. A quote from the play on page 331, lines 470-475 says this: "If we begin thinking of all the horror in the world, we're lost. We're trying to hold onto some kind of ideals... when everything, ideals, hopes... everything, are being destroyed.". When she says this, she's arguing, but she's also trying to tell them not to give up. She's telling them that if one of them gives up, then they'll all lose hope and give up too. When she does this, she is trying to keep things together. …show more content…
She says the following in the play on page : "I think that the world may be going through a phase, the way i did with mother.". This shows that Anne is able to hang in there because like she said, its just a phase. The war isn't a permanent thing, and they all know that. Anne is looking for the light at the tunnel, regardless of when it's actually