Books do have a main point after all, but it changes for each reader, and for each group of people puzzling their way to it. There are so many different things to learn from Diary, but what our group had settled on was a stark reminder that knowing the right thing to do is not necessarily the first step toward doing it. Every one of us grasped that protecting innocent fellow humans was the only morally correct choice. Yet only one of us was willing to admit what had to be true: that if this has been asked of most of us, we wouldn’t have done it.
