Anne Frank Diary Analysis

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8A Anne Frank 's relationships and interactions with the people of the annex could most truthfully be seen from her diary. Her entries show how vulnerable she really was to how they treated her. Her relationships with each person, especially her family and romantic interest, made her diary very emotionally relatable to other teens, as a teen myself I could relate to some of the issues Anne had with the others. For 2 years Anne had to be in the annex with little space and freedom to do as she wanted. Living in the annex affected her relationships as well. Herself and her relationships change throughout her diary. Anne 's relationship with her family is not the best, it is clear that Anne loved her father the most in her family. Otto Frank …show more content…

Unlike her relationship with her father, Anne and her mother’s relationship was quite difficult from the beginning. In her diary she wrote many negative things about her mother Edith. “Yesterday Mother and I had another run-in and she really kicked up a fuss. She told Daddy all of my sins and started to cry, which made me cry too, and I already had such an awful headache. I finally told Daddy that I love "him" more than I do Mother, to which he replied that it was just a passing phase, but I don’t think so. I simply can’t stand Mother, and I have to force myself not to snap at her all the time, and to stay calm, when I’d rather slap her across the face. (10/3/1942.2)” In her diary Anne describes her mother as cold and even says she 's not fit to be her mother. Anne thought that she really did not have the care of a mother at all. Anne criticized her mother 's parenting, “Mother has said that she sees us more as friends than as daughters. That 's all very nice, of course, except that a friend can 't take the place of a mother. I need my mother to set a good example and be a person I can respect, but in most matters she 's an example of what not to do. (1/5/1944.2)” Anne felt that her mother and the other adults criticized her a lot, this affected her self-esteem as a teen and made her dislike her mother more for not

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