Think about the ways in which Anne reacts to the everyday struggles of living so closely with her family and other occupants of the Secret Annexe. How are her emotions a testament to the timelessness of literature? In other words, discuss the ways in which Ann’s emotions, though she lived so long ago, are similar to emotions you yourself encounter today.
*Support your answer with examples from the book.
November 10, 2008 at 11:10 am
I think that Anne reacts kind immature about it.
She doesn’t seem to realize whats going on in the world around her.
“The Annex has heard the joyful news that each person is going to recieved an extra quater pound of butter for christmas, she also onlytalks about peter and how she fights with mrs.Vann Daan.
November 10, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I think Anne does seem to be feed up whith everybody . However we all get that way , I am sure that on walk about we are all going to be fed up whith sharing and living together. I agree whith Savanna that it is mature but she is just fed up.
November 10, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Anne is confused and imature, but she doesnt understand every thing. Savannah has the right thoughts.
November 10, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I agree with Savannah that Anne acts very inmmature. I would have to say she is confused. Her emotions are similar today because if i were stuck in an attic then i would also be confused.
November 10, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I believe that Anne was confused, but she also was struggling with her teenage self. As she says after an explosion from Mr. Dussel, “For one fleeting moment I thought, “Him and his lies. I’ll smack his ugly mug so hard he’ll go bouncing off the wall!” But the next moment, I thought, “Calm down, he’s not worth getting so upset about!”
And she’s right, there was nothing to get upset about. But the instincts of a adolesence give us feelings that might not make sense. I think that this is what Anne was feeling at the time.
November 10, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I agree with every one because we all have the same ideas on how anne acts.
November 10, 2008 at 6:04 pm
When Anne wrote in a letter to Margot that she could communicate better on paper than aloud, I immediately thought of myself. Personally, I will always stumble over my own words if speaking aloud, but if I have the time to write something, I can avoid these things. I can definitely write better than I can speak. However, I think Anne meant that she felt less embarrassed writing things then saying them. Also, Anne writes that her mother: “Only look at Margot.” I’ve felt this kind of jealousy myself occasionally, and I think so do most other people with siblings. Yes, I know I’ve already used that quote before. Anne also shows an extremely rebellious attitude towards her mother. Although it first seems quite horrible, if you think hard enough you’ll probably remember a similar attitude you had yourself, if not to quite so profound a degree.
November 11, 2008 at 2:27 pm
When I first saw this question, I thought, “Well how many emotions would I share with a teenage girl?” Not many. But then, I realized that some of the emotions that she has, we all get, especially the ones with other people. I get sick of my family from time to time. I just have to realize that Anne is experiencing the same things only ten fold. On the other hand, I think that Anne is waaaaaaaay to emotional towards friends, or at least in her diary. I think she also has a certain level of hubris that does not favor her. I don’t think that if I went to school with her, I would try to be her friend, because I think she is way to full of herself. Like when she talks about how boys will inevitably, “fall head over heals in love with her” is an misconception that is both boastful and irritating. I also think that if something might prove otherwise, to the fact that all boys will fall head over heels in love with her, she has enough gal to not right that in her diary. I also think that reading this book for how she feels is a quite distorted view because we never know what she really felt. What if she didn’t write about EVERYTHING in her journal. What if she only wrote about the things that either favor her or would make her feel uncomfortable to tell other people. If she wrote about the boys that absolutly hated her, and I’m sure there was some, the book would be very different. People would argue that she has the same feelings and emotions as any other teenage girl, but we will never know. The only information we has is her journal, which is highly unreliable. What if she was a freak, who couldn’t get a boy to even talk to her, failed in every subject but writing and had no friends, but wanted to pretend to be a normal girl by writing as a real girl. We would never know and I don’t think that her lying is such a far fetched idea. In fact, I think that she lied about herself or others more that once. But I’m sure that any girl in this 8th grade class is probably fuming by now, so to pacify them, I will agree that her writing PORTRAYS her like an immature, spoiled brat. To comment on EvanB’s response, what do you mean by confused. I think that she is very educated on what is going on around her and the family, but she just isn’t writing about it. And as I read more responses, I feel more and more abliged to just say, “WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE ANNE FRANK!!!!!”
November 11, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I agree with Savanna’s thought.
Anne lived hard time even though she is a young teen.
She would have much stress and couldn’t express to outside.
No one knows Anne’s feeling.
November 11, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I think that she is being sort of immature with her attitude. I have seen the same kind of reaction, but they usually have a good reason for it, but she just says that they are mean adults and they don’t understand her. when she writes about boys it seems similar to how everyone reacts when they are in love, but I think that she is too sure of herself.
I agree with seen in his remark that we will never know what is like to be Anne Frank, so we will never know if she was really immature, or just acted that way.
November 11, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I agree what Sean is saying, but i do know what its like to be a 13 year old girl. I feel that some emotions that Anne has i have too like being very overly confident and moody towards others. I do understand where Anne is coming from on sopme things but on others it feels like were are from two seperate planets. Its not uncommon for teenage girls at this age to feel depressed and have to think of themselves very highly than others and to have to put others down , its very snooty and rude toi do but we all do it even without relizing it and not doing it intentionaly. Also nobody responding to this question has actually known Anne so we don’t excatly know her. Also with Sean’s idea that she was making up the diary doesn’t make much sense because her dad edited her diary before having it punished and I don’t think he would have a book of his daughters lies being published and made into movies and also Lies and Peter VanDaan were real people so i think she was still good friends with Lies until she died because Anne found Lies at Belsin , the concentration camp she died at, and Peter VanDaan’s was shipped off to a concentration camp and never heard from again, so i think she had a boyfriend and best friend.
I don’t think Anne’s a brat or immature i just think she’s a normal teenage girl and sometimes I act like a spoiled brat and immature and i know sometimes a lot of other people act the same way and i mean people don’t judge people completly because they acted like a brat one time so i try not to judge Anne like that because i didn’t know her in real life and its unfair to her, but I do agree that some of the entries made her come across in a negitive way such as when she is talking about how Margo, Mrs. VanDann and her mom are all jealous of her relationship with peter and nobody but peter understands her and how nobody understtands peter but her.
November 11, 2008 at 9:07 pm
When Anne talked about how she hated Mrs. Vaan- Daan for talking bad about her I really related to that. I feel that with any child when an other adult critizises you you reacted badly. It really Hurts to have some one you barly know yell at you about your flaws.
November 11, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I also agree with Savnnah. Anne is not very mature about the things happening to her.
November 11, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I think that Anne acts very immature to adults. She says the adults are being mean, but they are actually trying to help her.
November 11, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I also agree with Sean and Savannah. She is almost rude.
November 11, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I completely agree with Savannah. Anne does act immature about the whole thing. She is oblivious to the fact that if she were to go out in the world, she would have a more likely probability of dying than she would of living. She should be thankful that(even though she may be moody sometimes) people have put up with her for so long. In the same sense though, some of Anne’s emotions are understandable. Everyone feels that way in some point in their life, and being in Anne’s position, I think that I would’ve probably acted in some of the same ways.
November 12, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I think the way Anne reacts to the struggles of being in such a close environment,is that she over reacts to everything like when her mom wont let her read books and she gets really angry. She thinks she is mature and all but she really isn’t. She also get in a fight with her sister other the guy peter.