Dramatic Irony

Something that we know Anne doesn't know is that she nor many of her family members survive.  It somehow makes me feel so bad.  Because we know this and she doesn't Anne is hopeful that she'll live to see the day the war is over.  I guess, it is heartbreaking that this isn't a happily ever after story.  The Franks and the Van Daans try so hard to stay alive.  They are hopeful.  Just the thought that they are in hiding, and haven't been discovered yet is perhaps heartening to them.  Despite all the trouble that they go through, in the end, they still are terminated.  I guess for me, i think it would have been better for the Franks and the Van Daans to be caught, instead of living in misery and hope for so many months, and later realize that they are going to die anyways.  Anne is such a vibrant young girl, and she seeks for the day that she may go out and live normally again, but we know, there would be no such day.