| Anne Frank |
Starting around where the diary started, Anne and her Mum seemed to get along just fine, as you don't hear her complaining about Mother or overly praising her at the original house. She just seems to acknowledge her as someone she knows and loves, but more in the way that you would love a friend. But once in the Annex, you hear (or read) all about this fighting and seeming animosity between the two. One of the far too many examples of this is found on Sunday, 27 September, 1942, a month and a half to two months after the family had moved in. Anne wrote, "Just had a big bust-up with Mummy for the umpteenth time; we simply don't get on together these days . . ." (Frank 30). These days. They used to get along, but ever since they moved into the Secret Annex, they are fighting more and more; hence the use of the word umpteenth; a word that basically means for the bazillionth time. As time goes on, they continue to argue more and more, as quotes from Thursday, 7 November, 1942 and Tuesday, 27 April, 1943 show. Quote: "Mummy is frightfully irritable and that always seems to herald unpleasantness for me, " (Frank 43) and, "Such quarrels seem to have left the house in thunders! Mummy and I, . . . everyone is angry at everyone else," (Frank 78). They both talk about how Anne and Mummy have or are going to be fighting the other, and how it is always not very fun for either participant. But shortly after the height of the arguments, they seem to take a deep plunge to the "Very little arguing zone", as you hear of no fights between the two for a long time. Anne explains this a bit in the diary entry for Sunday, 2 January, 1944, in which it says, "I have grown wiser and Mummy's nerves are not so much on edge. I usually keep my mouth shut if I get annoyed, and so does she, so we appear to get along much better together," (Frank 128). So Anne learned to shut up from time to time (Good for you) and Mum has gotten a better hold of herself in the not-so-new new house. It seems like there are coming to some peace with who the other is and are just beginning to accept it
Their relationship in the diary has most certainly been a rocky one, and now that we know what it's been, it seems like it is time to speculate about what the future will hold for these two. I personally think that one of two things will happen: A) Anne and her Mum will fall back into their old ways, and B) Anne and her Mum will argue less and less until they try to make it up to the other. So What do you guys think? Do you think outcome A or B will happen, or something somewhat different?
I personally think that they will go with plan A. I think this because I don't think that they have shown any sign of getting along better. In the book it says that Anne has been sharing more with Mrs. Van Dann more than her mother and I think that is driving them a part a little bit also
ReplyDeletePersonally I think that Anne and her mom will not get better and eventually Anne will be fed up, and turn to either Margot or even Mrs. Van Daan for motherly advice. Anne and her moms relationship has seem to go down the drain and I do not believe they will make up, because it does not seem that either one wants to budge and make up first. If one of them had to make up first I believe it would be Anne because if her mom steps up Anne might not listen so I think Anne has to take the first step.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tyler which is kind of like your plan A, I think this because I feel that Anne just doesn't want to put up with the effort of their mother-daughter relationship. Like we talked about in Jessica's blog we noticed that Anne is longing for that mother-daughter relationship but she knows its not going to be with her mom. So who is it going to be? I asked on Jessica's blog do you guys think its going to be Margot? While trying to analyze their relationship try to analyze what they are feeling, because if you can do that then you might realize that their relationship could just fade away.Which can lead into another one.
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