"Miep Gies: A Light in the Dark"
Imagine a world where you are forced to hide and protect your friends from a plague that has devoured most of Europe already, an army that kills people for no reason but hateful discrimination. Unfortunately, this was a reality for Hermine "Miep" Santrouschitz-Gies. In the play The Diary of Anne Frank and Related Readings, by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, Miep fulfills what she believes what is her duty; she felt that "permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty...can be worse than losing your life" (Scholastic 1). Anne Frank, along with t…