Criticizing The Frank Family
In the essay “The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank,” the author Bruno Bettelheim, distributes a different point of view on the Frank family. Bruno Bettelheim came to the United States in 1939 after spending a year in the concentration camps in Buchenwald and Dachau. He then spent the rest of his career working at the University of Chicago. Although in his essay Bruno Bettelheim says his intention is not to put down the Frank family, the majority of his essay shows him criticizing the Franks.
Bettelheim states that the Frank family did not plan and prepare properly. Bettelheim explains:
“By eulogizing how they lived in their hiding place while neglecting to examine
first whether it was a reasonable or an effective choice, we are able to ignore
the crucial lesson of their story – that such an attitude can be fatal in extreme
circumstances,” (79).
This example expresses that Bettelheim believes the Frank family did not......
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