The Diary of A Young Girl-Anne Frank-Saturday-April 1-1944 Onwards

 The Diary of A Young Girl-Anne Frank-Saturday-April 1-1944 Onwards

Anne expresses her anxiousness about Peter’s feelings for her. She wants to know whether he loves her or not.

Monday, April 3, 1944

In this diary entry, Anne describes scarcity of food in the Annex. They have to eat the same type of food for days together. Their weekly lunch consisted of brown beans, split tea, soup, potatoes, etc. Since there was shortage of bread, they had to use potatoes at meal also. They also used brown beans, navy beans, potatoes, etc. to make soup. Brown beans were also used in everything including bread. In dinner, potatoes were also used. They used flour supplied by Govt. agencies. It was not tasty.

Wednesday, April 5, 1944

Up to now, Anne was hopeful that she would rejoin her school and so, she had been doing her school work regularly. But now, the end of the war seemed a far cry to them, so her hope is dimmed to rejoin her school. In spite of that, she decided to continue her school work to keep her knowledge intact. 

She wanted to be a journalist and she was confident that she had the talent of writing skill in her. She knew that a few of her stories were really interesting. The descriptions of the Secret Annex were also humorous and much of her diary details were vivid and lively. She wanted to be remembered even after her death. She wished to be useful for society. She was thankful to God for giving her the talent of writing, which also provided relief from her stress and revives in her a current of freshness.

Thursday, April 6, 1944

A Variety of Hobbies and Interest

From this diary entry, we come to know that Anne had a variety of hobbies and interests. Writing is not the only habit of hers. Making genealogical (/ˌdʒiː.ni.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/ related to the past and present members of a family) charts of the royal families interests her. She reads magazine es, newspapers and searches in documents to find information of the French, German, Spanish, English, Austrian, Russian, Norwegian and Dutch royal families. 

Her third hobby is reading history. Her father has already arranged for many books of history for her. Her fourth hobby is reading about Greek and Roman mythology. She has gained considerable knowledge on them. Her other hobbies are movies and family photographs collection. She enjoys all subjects except algebra, geometry and arithmetic. But history is her most favourite subject. (297)

Tuesday, April 11, 1944

In this diary entry, Anne writes that everything passed at its usual pace. The only worth mentioning incident is that Dussel created a scene because she had taken his cushion along with her upstairs to sit on it along with Peter. They had a good fun at Dussel’s reaction.

At nine-thirty, Peter took Mr. Frank along with him downstairs and reported to him about the burglary being attempted at that very time. Mr. van Daan also accompanied them. The women upstairs were frightened because they heard a bump downstairs. Their men were still at the down-floor. At ten o’clock, Mr. Frank, pale and nervous, came inside the Annex. He was followed by Mr. van Daan. They all tiptoed upstairs as they were expecting police to reach anytime.

The incident was reported by Peter to Mr. Frank. He was going downstairs when he heard loud bangs. After reaching downstairs, he noticed that a large panel from the left half of the warehouse door was missing. He also alerted the home guard and went upstairs.

The burglars were doing their job when all men of the Annex went downstairs together. Mr. van Daan had shouted ‘Police!’ without thinking. The burglars were scared and fled outside at once.

After that, the board was put on its usual place, but immediately it was kicked in from outside and it fell down on to the floor. Peter, Mr. van Daan and Mr. Frank, all were very angry for some time, but were unable to do anything. Their new attempt to place the board there was also foiled from outside. Then a glaring flash from outside entered through the opening and it lit the entire warehouse from inside.

“What’s the…” uttered one of the men, but it was clear that they were seen by someone. So they ran upstairs in fright and suspense.

The inmates of the Annex supposed that the man and the woman with the flashlight outside the warehouse must have alerted the police. It was Sunday night and the next day was the Easter, so the warehouse was closed for Monday also. They would have to pass two nights in utter terror. The lamp was blown out by Mrs. van Daan as precaution and there was darkness spread all around them. 

All of them huddled together at one place waiting for any sound that might come from below. But nothing happened. Hour after hour passed in that odd situation. After eleven fifteen, they heard a noise below….the footsteps in the house, the private office. After that in the kitchens….then on the staircase. They virtually held their breaths, only the pounding sound of their hearts was being heard by them.

Anne felt being dragged by the Gestapo out of the Annex that very night.