Eleven Million people were killed during the Holocaust. One victim of this horrendous genocide was Anne Frank, author of The Diary Of A Young Girl (Definitive Edition), a real life story of a juvenile girl who spent two years writing about her life in the “Secret Annex”. Living in a time of such travesty could therefore change a person, sometimes for the better. Because of her time spent in the Annex, Anne learned a lot from it, making her mature, psychologically and collectively, as time progressed. Anne Frank matured greatly while she was shielded from the world. One example of this new adaptation is her emotional state and personality. This is shown many ways throughout the book. One example from before her adjustment is that she matured greatly. At the beginning she had many outburst such as on page 115, she states, “I've come to the conclusion that she’s all three of the above, and lot’s more besides. She has so many bad traits, why should I single out just one of them.” (Frank 115). She also mentioned on that page how she was mad at the time, but also the many invaluable traits Madame Van D possesses. Later in the book she …show more content…
In the beginning of the book, her relationships were a lot steadier, especially with Peter Van Daan, “No one takes Peter serious anymore since he’s hypersensitive and lazy… He’s an absolute hypochondriac!” (Frank 33) Her relationship with him though, is what changes the most. In the Diary he is described as idle and unbearable, (as mentioned above) but as the book progresses it shows that they are falling in love, Anne even writes about her amorous feelings toward him. “I really look forward to that hour or so in the afternoon, but best of all is that I think Peter is just as pleased to see me.” (Frank 211) This really does show how her relationship matured. It went from detest to endearment, which definitely proves her boundaries for mature and adult
In addition, Anne says she was, “Nervous and irritable.” and that her mother made it no better. Also, Anne states that her mother
At first, Anne and Peter never spoke to each other. But during Act II scene 1, they warm up to each other and become friends. On page 265, Peter had told Anne, “Well, anytime you want to let off steam, you can come into my room.” Peter and Anne now truly care for each other. In Scene 2, it’s shown that Anne visits Peter’s room often. Mrs Frank and Mrs Van Daan do not like this change very much, because, as stated on pg. 268, Anne believes that they’re awful and “treating [them] as if [they] haven’t left the nursery.”
Towards the beginning of the play, Peter and Anne have a teasing and kind of playful relationship. They don’t totally like each other, but they’re also very different. Anne is closer to her father than anyone else, but she doesn’t really enjoy her mother. Anne and Margot are fairly close, but Anne seems pretty jealous of Margot and her looks. Mrs. and Mr. Van Daan seem kind of rude to her.
Peter Van Daan Coming of Age In the play The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Peter Van Daan goes from having emotional responses to intellectual responses. During the first months of hiding, Peter is shy and reserved and only talks to his cat Mouschi. In Act 1 Scene 3, Peter refuses to go downstairs for dinner because he just wants to be alone with his cat. Anne offers to feed Mouschi dinner.
Many, many people suffered during the Holocaust war. The Jews in particular were in grave danger. The drama ‘Anne Frank’ outlines so many ways that this historical event caused a shift in the mood of the characters and their relationships. Before the Holocaust, Anne Frank was just an ordinary Jewish girl living in Germany. A German leader named Adolf Hitler developed a plan to destroy the Jews and to rule over the specific places where they lived. What Hitler did to these poor Jews, and the sheer terror they endured at the hands of this Nazi leader is purely unfathomable.
She even makes a gift for Mr. Van Daan, whom she doesn’t always get along with. In scene 5 of the Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the families celebrate Hanukkah. During this scene, they light the menorah as Mr. Frank prays, and when he finishes, Anne says it’s time to open presents and calls everyone to the couch. Before Mr. Van Daan opens his gift, Anne says, “I wanted to write a poem for all of them but I didn’t have time.
Though there were many acts of kindness the one that caught my eye is after Anne had a nightmare and is talking to Mr. Frank. On pg. 65 Anne and Mr. Frank is talking:
Anne Frank is a dynamic character in The Diary of Anne Frank. A dynamic character changes over time, whether it’s in real life or fictional or if the change is sudden or was expected because of the stories plot. Three reasons why Anne is a dynamic character is because of the way she puts herself together at the beginning and by the end of the book, I’ve noticed and how much she has changed, how she reacts to the same situations, and the way she expresses herself differently throughout the diary. An example that shows how she changed while living in hiding is how her opinion of Peter changed drastically. She didn’t like Peter at all
After months of disagreement, Anne and her mother finally start to get along. Anne becomes more sympathetic to her mother, and realizes that some of her past entries about her mother were very cruel and hotheaded. Now, Anne does her best to care for her mother and also keep her mouth shut at times. She tries not to take things as serious, as well. She does her best to mature when it comes to her and her mother’s relationship.
love with Anne; "Peter loves me not as a lover but as a friend and
Dislikes Mr.Dussel the most because he is old and she does not like Peter, she thinks Peter is weird and shy. Anne acts like she is innocent when she takes Peter’s shoes from underneath their table. Anne had to write a story because she talked too much in school. After Anne Frank had became mature; she thinks more about life and
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.
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
Mrs. van Daan takes her opinions a little too far a majority of the time. Anne goes to sleep most nights with these thoughts in her head, “Then I fall asleep with the strange feeling of wanting to be different than I am or being different than I want to be, or perhaps of behaving differently than I am or want to be” (Frank 72). Anne writes about the tears she has shed and the emotions she feels when this old bag speaks to her. Another member of the annex that tends to get on everyone's nerves is Mr. and Mrs. van Daan’s son Peter. Anne and Peter appear to be near the same age which means they can only read books that their parents deem appropriate for their age.
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,