“I expect you will be interested to hear what it feels like to ‘disappear’; well, all I can say is that I don’t know myself yet. I don’t think I shall ever feel really at home in this house.” -Anne, pg. 20, Anne Frank The Diary Of A Young Girl
Going into hiding in a place you don’t really know must be scary. You’d never expect it’d happen to you. But you have to go into hiding just to be keep safe. And I’m sure anyone who went into hiding felt the same way. This goes is protection, because everything Anne and her family are doing is to keep them safe and alive and that’s what they have to remind themselves.
This book goes back to the theme fear and loss. It relates to fear because Anne and her whole family were feeling fear because they have to live in a special place, and hiding from the Nazis. Knowing that they can’t leave the small space their in must be frightening. Not knowing when they’ll be able to go back home. And this relates to loss because they basically lost their whole normal lives, and they don’t know how long until they can go back home. This reminds me of orphans because they might not consider the orphanage a home, and they might feel fear because they don’t know when they’ll have a normal life with a real family and home.
Do you think at this point (p. 20) Anne truly comprehends the danager that she is in? The next line shows her comparing her living arrangement to almost a vacation.
ReplyDeleteYes because, at any time the Nazi's could raid the office and she'll never know when.
DeleteSomeone what of what you have said about her being scared is true and it is because this is a completely new concept. Her being told to be quiet all of a sudden and not having many freedoms may have been hard. But, I wouldn't compare this situation to a orphanage mostly because she does have her family. Her fear at the beginning is about many ideas like why am I here in this little attic.
ReplyDeleteAnne frank might of felt fear and loss but i think she also felt anger and frustration. She could of felt anger towards the people who forced her and her family in to hiding in the first place. Also frustration is a really big theme because she had no idea of when the war was going to be over or when she was going to be able to go out of hiding. What i think would frustrate her most would be not knowing who was going to win the war if the Nazis won her and her family would have to stay in hiding for ever.
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