The Secret Anne Frank Conflicts
Anne Frank’s conflicts are rooted in her being trapped as a result of her religion. Since Anne is a Jew living in Holland during Hitler’s reign, she could not have a regular life and receive the opportunity to fulfill her dreams. Her conflict begins once her father Otto Frank moved the family to Holland in 1933 to escape Adolf Hitler’s constraints on Jews living in Germany. Nazi treatment of the Jewish people was squalid. Anne tells how the Jews are forced to wear yellow stars and can’t own bicycles or cars. Jews are restricted to shopping in Jewish shops during certain hours and from being outside after dark. Jews cannot go to the theater or movies or visit Christians. Once Adolf Hitler invaded Holland in 1940, Anne was forced to leave her
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In July 1942 the Franks and the Van Daans moved into what is referred to as the "Secret Annex", a sanctuary in the building where Otto Frank worked. When the van Daans join them in the annex, Anne is more trapped physically and emotionally. The confined living quarters become even more crowded and less private. Anne is constantly criticized by Mrs. van Daan, who she finds irritating. Mrs. van Daan is constantly bickering with her husband and nagging the others in the annex, which disturbs Anne’s peace. Then Anne has to endure sharing her room with the elderly Mr. Dussel into the annex, thus giving her absolutely no privacy. She longs for a normal life with friends, school, independence, privacy, and …show more content…
She is torn between who she thinks she is and what she can achieve and what those around her and society tell her she is and what she will be. She contemplates about her place in society as a female, and how she can overcome the obstacles that have defeated the ambitions of women previously, namely her mother. Anne struggles with how she can be a good person with so much evil present. She is pained once she hears that the Dutch have become anti-Semitic, and does not know if she wants to continue to identify as Dutch. “I have only one hope: that this anti-Semitism is just a passing thing, that the Dutch will show their true colors, that they’ll never waver from what they know in their hearts to be just for this is unjust!” She also struggles to find her identity because she feels as though she lies in her sister Margot’s shadow and is restricted by her mother. Many had thus far considered Margot to be more beautiful and intelligent than Anne. Anne feels her mother, whom she feels is overly protective and faultfinding. She says of her mother, “She’s the one whose tactless comments and cruel jokes about matters I don’t think are funny have made me insensitive to any sign of love on her part…there was no more love between
In July 1942 the Franks and the Van Daans moved into what is referred to as the "Secret Annex", a sanctuary in the building where Otto Frank worked. When the van Daans join them in the annex, Anne is more trapped physically and emotionally. The confined living quarters become even more crowded and less private. Anne is constantly criticized by Mrs. van Daan, who she finds irritating. Mrs. van Daan is constantly bickering with her husband and nagging the others in the annex, which disturbs Anne’s peace. Then Anne has to endure sharing her room with the elderly Mr. Dussel into the annex, thus giving her absolutely no privacy. She longs for a normal life with friends, school, independence, privacy, and …show more content…
She is torn between who she thinks she is and what she can achieve and what those around her and society tell her she is and what she will be. She contemplates about her place in society as a female, and how she can overcome the obstacles that have defeated the ambitions of women previously, namely her mother. Anne struggles with how she can be a good person with so much evil present. She is pained once she hears that the Dutch have become anti-Semitic, and does not know if she wants to continue to identify as Dutch. “I have only one hope: that this anti-Semitism is just a passing thing, that the Dutch will show their true colors, that they’ll never waver from what they know in their hearts to be just for this is unjust!” She also struggles to find her identity because she feels as though she lies in her sister Margot’s shadow and is restricted by her mother. Many had thus far considered Margot to be more beautiful and intelligent than Anne. Anne feels her mother, whom she feels is overly protective and faultfinding. She says of her mother, “She’s the one whose tactless comments and cruel jokes about matters I don’t think are funny have made me insensitive to any sign of love on her part…there was no more love between