The Diary of a Young Girl is the published diary written by Anne Frank and translated by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday that captures a Jewish thirteen-year-old’s journey of fleeing the Nazis during World War II. She spends most of the diary in hiding with her family in the Secret Annex which was a concealed wing of an office that Jews lived in. Anne’s relationship with her mother shows a lack of understanding and love until she begins to empathize with her mother.
At the beginning of the Franks’ time living in the Annex, Anne feels that she can understand her friends more than her mother. On September 27, 1942, Anne has a quarrel with her mother and writes that they have not been getting along. She draws the conclusion that she is unable to understand …show more content…
Anne realizes that she likes her father more because she believes that they are more alike. She conveys this message to Mummy when her father is not available to do his nightly prayers with Anne. Mummy offers to do them with Anne, but she turns down the offer and hurts her mother’s feelings. After Anne dismisses her, she writes, “Mummy got up, paused by my bed for a moment, and walked slowly towards the door. Suddenly, she turned around, and with a distorted look on her face said, ‘I don’t want to be cross, love cannot be forced’” (77). Anne and her mother’s fight about prayers brings their relationship to a peak because it was an argument that was not about a trivial thing, but about Anne’s preference for her father over her mother. This preference is so clear that it wounds Mummy. Anne expresses that she likes her father more than her mother by turning down her mother’s offer to do prayers with her because it is a ritual that she does with her father. Anne’s outburst of disapproval for her mother brings Mummy to tears. It shows Anne’s contempt for her mother and displays that their relationship had reached a peak of distaste. This also showed lack of love because Mummy was very offended and Anne was taken aback at what she had said. Anne’s actions crossed a line and strongly hurt her
At the beginning of the Franks’ time living in the Annex, Anne feels that she can understand her friends more than her mother. On September 27, 1942, Anne has a quarrel with her mother and writes that they have not been getting along. She draws the conclusion that she is unable to understand …show more content…
Anne realizes that she likes her father more because she believes that they are more alike. She conveys this message to Mummy when her father is not available to do his nightly prayers with Anne. Mummy offers to do them with Anne, but she turns down the offer and hurts her mother’s feelings. After Anne dismisses her, she writes, “Mummy got up, paused by my bed for a moment, and walked slowly towards the door. Suddenly, she turned around, and with a distorted look on her face said, ‘I don’t want to be cross, love cannot be forced’” (77). Anne and her mother’s fight about prayers brings their relationship to a peak because it was an argument that was not about a trivial thing, but about Anne’s preference for her father over her mother. This preference is so clear that it wounds Mummy. Anne expresses that she likes her father more than her mother by turning down her mother’s offer to do prayers with her because it is a ritual that she does with her father. Anne’s outburst of disapproval for her mother brings Mummy to tears. It shows Anne’s contempt for her mother and displays that their relationship had reached a peak of distaste. This also showed lack of love because Mummy was very offended and Anne was taken aback at what she had said. Anne’s actions crossed a line and strongly hurt her