Anne Frank 's Time Of The Secret Annex

Anne had always maintained a close relationship with her mother. She respected her work ethic and her determination to raise her family the best she could. Yet most young women face a time in their lives when their relationship with their mother is strained. This somewhat natural occurrence took place, but was intensified by Anne's own discovery of how the world really worked, in terms of race relations. I think that Anne always found her mother's lack of communication, regarding the race situation, as a weakness. This created more distrust for her mother at an already vulnerable time in her life.

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

Throughout her time of hiding, Anne had a diary where she could express her thoughts and feelings about the situation. She wrote down what was happening, how she feels about what's happening, and her opinions on the people she is living with. Her opinion of her mother changed as they were there. For what I can tell before hiding, Anne loved and cared for her mother as much as anyone else in her family. As time went on, her mother was unbearable to Anne. Anne wrote, "Mother is unbearable. She insists on treating me like a baby." Anne says this because she believes that she is able to

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,

Don’t you hate it when your family and strangers treat you in a harsh way. Anne Frank was treated harshly by some people in the secret annex people would yell at her call her spoiled lazy and was always telling her what to do. But some people treated her nicely like Peter VanDaan and her dad in a way that made her feel loved by some people around her. Anne was a twelve year old girl when she was forced into hiding because she was a Jew in Nazi territory during WW2. Anne is treated by the people in the annex in many ways and that effects her character in such a way that changes her character.

In the annex, Anne had many types of relationships with very few people. At first she didn’t like Peter Van Daan, because he was so shy and pessimistic. But as time wore on, she got closer and closer to Peter, and had a very broad love. Alas, this love did not last. Anne became annoyed with Peter, because he was so lost in her beauty and intelligence that he wouldn’t listen to her or give her any space. Her father, Pim or Otto, would always smother her with “understanding” but he never really knew how she felt. He would sympathetically explain to her that,”It’ll pass,” and that,”It’s just a phase.” Anne, however, wouldn’t have it. She wanted to be her own person, leave her own mark on the world. “I want to go on living, even after I die.”-Anne Frank confided in her diary. Edith, Anne’s mother, tried to get close to Anne and be what a mother is supposed to be, a supporter, and friend; a shoulder to cry on and a person who sees the best in you even at your worst. But Anne didn’t want to let her in, because when she did her mother judged her and put her down; made her feel like there was something erroneous about herself. Most people in my grade are in some kind of relationship.

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.

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.

While staying in the annex Anne has made a new friendship with Peter (Hackett and Goodrich). Them becoming friends made living in the annex more bearable, for both Anne and Peter. Anne has also improved her relationship with her mother. Their relationship grew by her and her mother trying to understand each other more. Her and her father’s relationship grew more also. Anne would always go to her father for advice or just to make her feel better when her mother or other people living in the annex would make comments about her and how she should be

Anneliese Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, June 12, 1929 (History.com). Anne Frank lived a quiet normal life attending school and having fun with all the other kids. The Franks were driven into hiding on July 14th, 1942 when Anne Frank’s sister Margot got a call to report to a work camp (Thoughtco.com). The family quickly packed and went into hiding. Otto Frank, Anne Franks father, owned a warehouse into which the family quickly departed. In just a day they had moved into a hidden room in the warehouse called the secret annex hidden by a movable bookshelf (See Figure 1).

Anne Frank faced adversity from her own family and the people who she had contact every day in the Secret Annexe. She was misunderstood and rejected from giving her opinions in the adults’ conversations just because she was just a teenager. She was probably more mature and thoughtful than Mrs. Van Daan. Her actions were always compared to her sister’s, which was unfair because she was expected to meet the near-impossible expectations

Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in the old German city of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt’s Westend, with a population of about 540,000. Her parents were Otto Frank, who was a zealous photographer, and Edith Hollander, who gave birth to Anne in a maternity hospital. During Anne’s first 5 years she lived with her parents and older sister, Margot, who was 3 years older, in an apartment outside of Frankfurt and went to a Montessori School in 1934. Later on, she then transferred to a Jewish School in 1941, along with her sister.

Anne Frank and her life inside the Secret Annex. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. “Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.—Anne Frank, July 15th, 1944”. Annelies Marie Frank, young, curious, stuck in the middle of World War ll and the Holocaust. The ideal story of Anne Frank shows us that hoping and dreaming can get you past the hardships of life as you are given a reason to keep moving on.

What do you think it was like for Anne Frank to live in the Annex with all the other people? It was probably crowded because of the seven people living there. She also didn't get along with some of the people there like her mother, Mr. Dussel, and Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan.

Dussel by letting them stay in the Secret Annex with them. The residents of the Annex received help from Miep Gies and Mr. Kraler, workers in Mr. Frank’s company. Miep bought supplies for them and made sure that they stay hidden. She had to buy certain items they needed from the black market, which was a big risk. In Act 1, Scene 2, Mr. Kraler says, “ Miep or I, or both of us, will be up each day to bring you food and news and find out what your needs are.” This assurance showed how devoted Miep and Mr. Kraler were to keep the Franks comfortable in the attic, even when the risks were extremely dangerous. An excerpt from Anne’s diary about Miep and Kraler’s involvement was stated in part of the play. “I asked Father what would happen to them if the Nazis found out they were hiding us. Pim said that they would suffer the same fate that we would” (The Diary of Anne Frank 1.2.768-772). The punishment for hiding Jews was death. After the Franks were sent to Auschwitz, Miep narrowly avoided the death penalty by luck. The police officer who came to interrogate her was from her own hometown, so he let her stay. Jeannine Burk was a Jew who hid in a woman’s house from the ages of three to five. She noted that it was constantly dangerous for her, even in hiding. She stated, “The Nazis used to love to parade. When