Research Paper On Kindred To Her Mother

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.

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

Anne matures throughout the course of her diary entries, moving from detailed accounts of basic activities to deeper, more profound thoughts about humanity and her own personal nature. “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” This shows that Anne matures through the course of her diary, she considers herself as a woman rather than a young girl and sets goals for herself that she wants to achieve. Anne becomes more optimistic even after she feels misunderstood by everyone and feels completely alone.

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

The Diary of Anne Frank shows the changes in behavior and maturity for the main character, Anne, as she stays in the annex for two years.In Act I, Anne was more energetic and playful as a thirteen-year-old. Act I Scene 3 highlights Anne’s playful and clumsy behavior by talking about her pranks. On page 552, it states “Anne: Who cares if it’s dignified? I don’t want to be dignified. Mrs. Frank: [To Anne] You complain that I don’t treat you like a grownup. But when I do, you resent it” (Goodrich and Hackett 552). This shows that Anne is not ready to be treated like an adult. She dislikes when her mother expects her to be mature and she has a teenage mentality. She does not care that her behavior is not dignified and mature. She wants to have fun and frolic, much like what a child would want. Therefore, in the beginning of Act I, Anne acts childish and immature. However, in Scene 4 of Act II, it mentions how Anne has matured. “She is no longer a child, but a woman with courage to meet whatever lies ahead” (634). This quote shows that change that Anne has gone through as a

"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan is about the intricacies and complexities in the relationship between a mother and daughter. Throughout the story, the mother imposes upon her daughter, Jing Mei, her hopes and dreams for her. Jing Mei chooses not what her mother wants of her but only what she wants for herself. She states, "For, unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could be only me" (Tan 1). Thus this "battle of wills" between mother and daughter sets the conflict of the story.

“You must raise children yourself to understand your parents’ love.” This passage is a common proverb to express the challenge of understanding parents’ love and intentions. Similar to the proverb, Amy Tan illustrates the process of recognizing mother’s intention in her short story “Two Kinds.” The mother and daughter confront because of the mother’s anxiousness in finding her daughter’s prodigy. As time goes by, through one important scene in the story, the daughter becomes aware of her mother’s love and comes to terms with herself. The significant scene is when Jing-Mei’s mother offers her the piano for her thirtieth birthday. With all the conflicts she had with her mother and within herself, from the important scene, Jing-Mei realizes that she is transformed from a “pleading child” into a “perfect contented” adult.

She was the girl who left her bed in the middle of the night knowing that she would be gone for a long long time but still extremely happy and self satisfied and curious. She also became more self defendant about herself, Peter, and Margot and more caring about them as well. As her time in the secret annex extended she became less and less like her thirteen year old self. She not only grew matured but also stronger in her heart and her belief that things were going to be fine grew more and better. There are many ways in which Anne was changed by in the secret annex.

It changed how she lived too. She use to be the talkative one but now she's less talkative later in the drama. “ I heard about you… How you talked so much i class they called Mrs. Quack Quack. How Mr. Smitter made you write a composition… “Quack Quack, said Mrs. Quack Quack.¨ (Page 117 Act 1) This changes Annes mood later in the drama.¨ Well...er...you're...quieter¨ (Page 172, Act 2) This shows that she did get quieter. Throughout the rest of the drama other moods change too in Anne. There moods change their

Further and further into her life, Anne becomes more of a caring person than she already was. On page 344, the Van Daan's were very close to being kicked out of the secret annex. Anne knew the consequences of being kicked out would endanger the family. Anne cared so much about the family leaving because if they lived on the streets, they could very well be captured and thrown into a concentration camp. She argued with her mother, that she should not throw them n the street because of the consequences. Anne states that she cares deeply for Miep's life, on page 349. Anne understands that Miep is risking her life, every trip she takes up to the annex. Since Miep is helping out people that are Jewish, she could be put to death for her actions, if she is caught. Finally on page 313, line 2259, Anne states, " I'm never going to do that again. Never! Of course I may do something worse... but at least I'll never do that again!" She said this after an argument involving herself, and her mother. After this argument, Anne states the direct quote. You can infer that she wants to change her attitude towards her mother. This would mean that truly, Anne does care about her mother very

Anne’s relationship with her mother is very different then with her father Anne has a very good relationship with her father she always wants him around when there is a problem. Anne thinks that her father understands her,Anne doesn’t think her mother understands her,she thinks that she is wrong about the things she says. Anne rejects her mother usually. Anne always listens to her father. In the play Anne pushes her mother away when she try’s to comfort her when she had a bad dream. Anne i think secretly loves her mother the way she is she just doesn’t admit it.

Over time, Anne Frank has matured in her style of her writing by using more advanced vocabulary and subject matter. One example in the beginning of the book where she has not fully matured is when she writes, “The baby ducklings were bitten to death by Father because the chattered too much” (Frank 7). Anne was assigned a paper and did not take it seriously. Her immaturity kicked in, and she decided to make a joke about it. Anne was a chatter box that spoke all of her thoughts out loud but over time, she realized that everyone does not agree with her opinions and decided to keep her thoughts to herself as she said, “I talk more to myself than to the others at mealtimes, which is to be recommended for two reasons. Firstly, because everyone is

Isolation of the Human Spirit In “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank, a thirteen year old girl becomes one of the most well-known victims of World War II by writing every devastating experience she goes through during the 1940’s in her diary she calls “kitty”. This remarkable story provides every diary entry Frank wrote, and about what it was like being Jewish while hiding in a place her family called the ‘Secret Annex’ during World War II. During the family’s time of hiding, they each were required to wake up at 6:45 each morning, they could not go outside, and they were not able to turn on the lights once it got dark. Due to the fact that all of Frank’s time was occupied indoors, she had spent most of her time reading books and writing in her diary.

these arguments could have been easily avoided and that she had a share in the blame. Anne believed that “parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands,” (Frank, 1944). Throughout the novel, she certainly embodied those wise words from her father. Her development is best displayed when she re-reads older entries in which she spoke about her mother. She explains that, “I have been trying to understand the Anne of a year ago,” (Frank, 1944). This hints to the fact that she has changed so deeply it is almost as if another person wrote those things. She then aims to understand but also self-evaluates. “I suffer now- and suffered then- from moods which kept my head under water (so to speak) and only allowed me to see the things subjectively without enabling me to consider quietly the words of the other side, and to answer them as the words of one whom I, with my hot headed temperament, had offended or made unhappy,” (Frank, 1944). Anne then continues to evaluate the situation even more strictly, and she realized her mother truly did love her but Anne hid “within herself,” (Frank, 1944). Many of the arguments were sparked due to stress from the situation. While she still assigns blame onto her mother, she accepts it as well.

From then on, as she grew older, Anne gained many bad experiences that influenced her to have a negative perspective on life, but the most important experience was Anne discovering about her “blackness” and how much it meant in her society. She discovered it after her mother took their family home after finding Anne and her siblings, as Anne puts it, “standing in the