Brief Essay: People Are Not Good At Heart

People are not good at heart

Anne Frank famously said that “In spite of everything, I still truly believe that people are really good at heart”. But could this important figure in our history be perhapse wrong? In the sad truth, yes, people are not generally good at heart because people can be very selfish , people can have strong beliefs friends ,can hurt one another,and people can do bad things in the midst of crisis.
Why people are not good at heart is that people can be very selfish. For example, this January, a boy named”....Hayden Porter, a 15-year-old freshman at a high school in Ohio, took his life”(https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/health/ohio-suicide-cluster/index.html). This is very selfish because killing oneself is so wrong and so heartbreaking for everyone that loves him/her. In his defence, he killed himself probably from bullying from other people, hence proving another reason why people are bad at heart, but that should not give anyone the right to take your their and only life away from themself.In another example, in the Diary of Anne Frank, Mr Van Daan was stealing some of the bread from the

In the diary of Anne Frank, Carl was a worker who worked for Mr Frank’s company, but had a suspicion about the franks being in Switzerland, leading him to “blackmail!” the refugees in order to not turn them in to the Green Police as a result of people do things in the midst of crisis because in times of need, when there is a opportunity for something better, people tend to do it, whatever the cost may be for the person or for the people it will affect. Likewise, when the families were scared about “Someone know[ing that] we’re here, yes. But who is that someone? A thief! A thief!” therefore emphasizing the point of people being bad at heart because while we do not know the real reason why the thief was stealing, stealing is never a good thing to do, in any