what opinion does Anne Frank has about 'paper'
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In her final entry, Frank wrote of how others perceive her, describing herself as “a bundle of contradictions.” She wrote: “As I've told you many times, I'm split in two. One side contains my exuberant cheerfulness, my flippancy, my joy in life and, above all, my ability to appreciate the lighter side of things
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Jeff Hoover's comments (letter, Dec. 6) on Frank Rich's Dec. 2 column and my Anne Frank essay in The New Yorker misrepresent my views. Far from having ''demonized'' Otto Frank's fatherly feelings, I expressed sympathy for his desire to excise from his daughter's published diary certain sensitive passages that he found too painful to expose -- private sexual reflections, for instance, and adolescent rage against her mother. ''Undoubtedly,'' I wrote, ''he better understood Edith Frank's protective tremors, and was unwilling to perpetuate a negative portrait.''
Mr. Hoover charges me with offering Anne Frank as ''a symbol of Jewish agony and resilience.'' That this child participated in Jewish agony is undeniable; to consider her a ''symbol'' is to erase her singularity. My aims were to question the shabby practice of turning human beings into generalized emblems to serve a favored rationale, and to argue against the absurdist lie of ''resilience'': what resilience does the degradation and murder of Anne Frank demonstrate?
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That Mr. Hoover visited the Anne Frank House as his own effort to ''heal the world'' does nothing to alleviate (it should in fact emphasize) the relentless truth of history -- that no message of redemptive idealism can be pried from the massive atrocity of the Holocaust.