Anne Frank Response Paper

Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, she was the daughter of Otto and Edith Frank. Anne and her sister Margot grew up in Germany, but before World War II Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam for two years. During World War II Adolph Hitler killed nearly six million Jews.

While anne was in the annex for two years she became more mature. Here are some quotes on Anne becoming more mature from the book. “No Peter. No! I don't care about the food. They can have mine! I don't want it! Only don't send them away. It'll be daylight soon. They'll be caught.”(108) Anne started out hating the van daans and now she is trying to save them from their parents kicking them out of the annex. Another quote of Anne becoming more mature is when she realizes how she has been acting towards her mother. “Look at me, the way i've treated my mother. I'm so mean and horrid towards her. Oh mother, I was. I was awful.”(112)

In the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne is a dynamic character who is disrespectful and immature in the beginning of the play. When Anna had a nightmare in the beginning of the play, her mother came into her room to comfort her. Her mother offered Anne water and to stay with her until she fell asleep, but Anne said it wasn’t necessary to stay. When Mrs. Frank stated, “But I’d like to start with you . . . Very much. Really.” Anne replied, “I’d rather you didn’t” (398). This scene demonstrates Anne is both immature and rude because she rejects her mother’s help. Her mother is likely very hurt by this rejection, especially since, as her mother leaves the room, Anne asks for her father instead. In the end of the play, Anne shows she is a dynamic character by displaying the character traits brave and thoughtful. While Peter and Anne

Anne faces many problems and struggles while she is at the Annex , but one big problem is her mother. She has many disputes with her mother. It all ends though when Anne takes the bigger side of life and matures. Anne shows that she is matured by questioning her past decisions , understanding her mother's point of view , and she is understanding all of her emotions more thoroughly.

Lastly Anne and her mother's relationship due to the outside world was beginning to break. Annes mood began to change, because of the news that she had received. Anne shut out her mother, and instead wanted the comfort of her father.

Annelies Marie aka “Anne” was born on June 13, 1929. She was a world-famous diarist and World War II Holocaust victim. Frank got her famous diary for her 13th birthday, and that is when she began to write about her life in the Holocaust times.

Anne had a heart filled with hope and had a bright future ahead of her, as the war progressed she began to see the suffering of the people around her. Everyone did love her personality. She was very curious, talkative, and playful and was lots of fun to be around. Anne had a hunger for knowledge and was very optimistic. Writing was always her favorite thing. It calmed her from the rages of the world, she could just write and be herself. When she went into hiding she lived in a place called the Secret Annex. A Secret Annex was a building that was placed between two buildings. The first floor was Otto Frank's business and the second was the hiding spot. The real name in Dutch meant behind or back, so in the diary, they used the term Secret Annex. For over 2 years she lived in the secret home, and that is when she got her journal at the age of 13. Almost every day she would write about her current life and the things going on around her. She would write about how much she missed her friends from school and often missed being outside out in the open air. When the Van Pels moved in they had a son named Peter, Anne would play around with Peter, take his shoes and hide them. She thought it was very amusing, Peter didn't quite think so.

Dussel. In the annex, there was strict food rations, causing no one to have enough to eat. Eight people were confined to no more than four rooms, and couldn’t leave that area for two years. In order to prevent being heard, Anne was required to sit still and silent for almost half of every day, doing school work. The inhabitants of the annex lived in constant fear, but Anne continued to have hope and keep faith.

Some the people in the Annex complain about Anne because her personality can get to be a litte much as well as she can be bossy towards other people.

As an adolescent, Anne believed that she never had a traditional mother. “Mummy herself has told us that she looked upon us more as her friends than her daughters. Now that is all very fine, but still, a friend can’t take a mother’s place. I need my mother as an example which I can follow, I want to be able to respect her” (Frank 1/5/15). Because of her mother’s poor parenting skills, Anne wrote about what she would do when she would someday become a mother. “In spite of all my theories, and however much trouble I take, I miss having a real mother who understands me. That is why with everything I do and write I think of the ‘Mumsie’ that I want to be for my children later on. The ‘Mumsie’ who doesn’t take everything in general conversation so seriously, but who does take what I say seriously” (Frank 12/24/15). Although her mother is not the best, she has the Van Daans who can also be classified as poor relatives, even though they are not consanguine. “Mrs. Van Daan is unbearable. I get nothing but ‘blowups’ from her for my continuous chatter she is always pestering us in one way or another. ” (Frank 9/21/42). Like every other family, the relationship between the members of the Annexe can be healthy or dysfunctional at

In the Annex and even before living in the Annex, Anne has an acquaintance named Peter Van Pels, whom she greatly dislikes because of his personality. She is very open about her opinion, and Anne explains “[her mother] says I have to be nice to him,” showing her mother notices her negative feelings toward Peter (The Diary of Anne Frank). Secondly, she has her opinions on religion. She does not like being religious, and writes about prayers, saying “They certainly sound beautiful, but they mean very little to me. Why is [my mother] making me act so religious and devout?”(Frank 45).

The first part of the diary starts with her being a regular girl having fun and turns into a girl going into hiding with seven other people. In addition, she has to deal with relation problems with her mom, sister, and the people she is in hiding with. The problems begin when eight people are confined in a small area and everybody begins to irritate and annoy one another. Anne was especially concerned with herself and with her attitude towards the others in the group. She's mainly concerned with her mother who always treats her like baby. Mr. Frank tires to ease the quarrels between them by telling Anne to help out more around the house, but Anne stubbornly declines preferring to concentrate more on her studies. She especially gets plenty of confrontations with Mrs. Van Daan who thinks she is a spoiled little girl. Mrs. Van Daan constantly tells Anne’s father, “ If Anne were my daughter.” Anne’s respond to this in her diary was, “Thank heavens I’m not!” Of course

Thirteen year old Anne Frank is stuck in an attic for 2 years during World War II. This can sometimes take a toll on one's personality. Anne Frank's book titled "The Diary of Anne Frank" takes people through what it was like to be a Jewish teenager during World War II. Anne and her family was forced to move into hiding, because of the harsh measures being taken by Nazis to rid Europe of Jews. During Anne's time in the annex, readers get to know her well, as she changes from the beginning, to the end of her time in hiding. While Anne at the beginning is different from Anne at the end, she still is consistent in some of her personality traits throughout the entire book. When the tyranny of Hitler began, Anne’s concerns changed, along with

The third change in Anne's emotions happens when she rejected her mother for her father. We see that from the beginning, she always loved her father more than her mother and she didn’t have any interest in loving her mother. One night, she started to have a nightmare and woke up screaming. She disturbed the whole house, or annex, and her mom came to calm her down. Anne lays down and her mom tries to comfort her but she rejects her mom. She requests to see her dad and her mom walks out and starts to cry. Later Anne felt guilty for doing it and at the end of the story,

In the entry of January 2, 1944 Anne was flipping through pages of her journal and she noticed that many of her entries had been talking about her mum in a rude and disrespectful way. So after Anne sees what she had done she was thinking of ways that she had made her mum get into such a mood.Anne then starts flipping through the pages of her diary trying to figure out the way that she is mentioning her mother in such a disrespectful way. Therefor Anne then starts to realize that she has been talking wrong about her mom, she is also realizing she has been having mood swings because of living in the annex, and the last problem Anne has been noticing is that she is taking the words that her mom is saying to her to literal or to offensively