Dear Miss Breed

What is conflict? Why is it good to have a positive attitude during conflict? Why, for so long have humans cruelly mistreated each other if “they are all equal?” Conflict is a fight, battle, or struggle, especially a prolonged struggle (dictionary.com). Anne Frank gives an insight on what life was it was like to not know if you would live for the next day. In Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne is living through the turmoil of all the jewish people as her and her family hid from the Nazi’s. Although the situation she is in is horrifying she manages to stay positive minded. Another story, Dear Miss Breed, a story where all Japanese people in the United States, citizens or not, were placed in internment camps because of the air attack on Pearl Harbor. Miss Breed, a children’s librarian at the San Diego Public Library, gave kids that were put in these camps hope by donating books to them and also by writing letters back and forth to them trying to give them some positivity even in their time of crisis. Both of these stories show that having a positive attitude is the best response to conflict, especially in time of war. Anne Frank and Miss Breed are two real people that
One way is when she starts sending books to the Japanese children, living in the United States, that were put in these work camps because of the attack at Pearl Harbor. Another way she shows positivity and tries to give these children hope by writing letters back and forth to these children. In the story a letter by Chiyoko Morita says, “ Upon my arrival to the Poston Relocation Center, I stood bewildered, glaring at the hot dusty desert, wondering how we could survive” (Breed par. 1). After receiving this letter Miss Breed writes back to all of the kids and starts giving them hope by talking about their feelings and lives. She tries to regain their positivity and give them an image that everything will be