The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank-Thursday-October 01-03-07-1942

 The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank

Thursday, October 01-03-07, 1942

Anne begins this diary entry explaining that she had a horrible fright at eight o’clock when the door bell rang all of a sudden. She had the fright in her mind that someone was coming to get them out from there. She calmed down, as others claimed that it must have been either pranksters or the mailman.

 Next, she describes about Mr. Levinsohn, who was a little Jewish pharmacist and chemist. He was working quite familiar with the building, so they were under the constant fear that he might not come upstairs to have a look of the old laboratory, which has now become the hiding place for these people. Thus they had to remain as quiet as the mice babies for hours together.

Next, Anne writes about Mrs. Van Daan’s birthday and it was celebrated on the twenty-ninth of September in a very simple way.

After that Anne writes that Mrs. van Daan’s attempts to flirt her father wr=ere a constant source of irritation  to her. She tries to get her father’s attention by making several advances. Fortunately, he does not respond to her efforts she is neither pretty nor charming for him.

Next, Anne talks about Peter. She finds one thing common with him and her, that is, both of them like to dress up in others clothes.

One evening Peter wore his mother’s skin-tight dresses and Anne, his suit. He wore a hat and she a cap. All of them split their sides laughing.. Anne and Peter also enjoyed every moment of that experience.

She writes about some more things also. Some of them need mention here.

For example, Mr. Van Daan wants Anne to sit next to him at the table because Margot eats less and it does not suit him. Anne likes changes in life, so she agreed.

Then she mentions about a tiny black cat that was roaming around the yard. It reminds her of her own dear cat Moortje.

After that, Anne explains as to why she likes the change of sitting next to Mr. van Daan. She says that her mother keeps on carping (criticizing) at her and now, Margot will have to bear the brunt () of it. She also explains the possibility that Mother might not be making sarcastic () remarks to Margot, whom Anne calls out of sarcasm, the paragon of virtue.

Sunday, October 03, 1942

In this diary entry, we come to know that Anne does not like her mother at all. She finally tells her Daddy that she loved “him” more than her mother. Her father replies that it is h=just a passing phase. But, Anne does not relent and she writes that she has to stop her from snapping at her all the time and she also feels like snapping at her. 

Her irritation and dislike for her mother can be estimated from her mentioning that she can imagine her mother’s death, while she cannot imagine such bad happenings for her father. At the same time she knows that it is very mean of her that she imagines such things for her mother. She also wishes that her mother should never read that from her diary.

Next, she writes about the books that are solely meant for the grown-ups. Now she is allowed to read these books, but she finds in them nothing that is different from what she has read in the books meant for the youngsters.

After that she writes about a book named Eva’s Youth.

Eva believes that children grow on trees like apples. When they are ripe, they are plucked by the stork () and then they are given to mothers. But her girlfriend’s cat had kittens and Eva saw them coming out of the cat. That gave Eva the idea that cats lay eggs and hatch them. She also thought that mothers also lay eggs and hatch them. 

That made Eva wish for a baby. So she took a wool scarf and spread it on the ground so that the eggs might come out and fall on it. She squats down and begins to push. She also clucks () and waited, but no egg comes out. Finally, after a long wait and pushing, something did come out, but that was not an egg.

Anne also reads in the book that some women sell their bodies for money. She also comes to know about Eva’s periods, and Anne also longs for them as she has a desire to grow up very soon.

Anne ends up the entry mentioning that her father is getting angry at her writing diary and he is in the look out to take it away from her. So, today, she is thinking of hiding it somewhere.

Wednesday, October 07, 1942

In this entry, Anne writes about her imaginary shopping to divert her attention from the limitations of the secret annex. She imagines that she has gone to Switzerland. She describes that Anne and her father sleep in one room while the boys’ (her cousins Bernhard and Stephen Elias) study is converted into a sitting room, where she receives the visitors there. 

Then she writes about some pieces of new furniture, brought by the boys. It includes a tea-table, a desk, armchairs and a divan. Every piece of furniture is simply wonderful. After that, Anne writes as to how her father gives her money and she uses it in buying a number of things for herself. She writes a long list of the things of her personal use.