The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank- Friday-March 17-1944-onwards

 The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank- Friday-March 17-1944

Anne writes about good things in the very beginning of this diary entry. Bep is suffering from sore throat, not flu and Mr. Kugler has been able to get a medical certificate to escape the responsibility of showing work report for fix days.

As we know that Anne loves nature and she feels happy if the weather outside is fine. It changes her mood also. After some time, she analyses her own state of mind. Then she finds that Peter gets control over her disturbed state of mind earlier that her. The reason behind is that Peter has a separate room of his own to think and rethink about himself and finally go to sleep peacefully. But she has no privacy because she has to share her room with Mr. Dussel. This is another thing that she finds some comfort in the attic, the place where she can lay bare her inner thoughts in conflict with emotions.

Another fact she finds herself is that she no more enjoys of likes giving morning kisses to her parents like children in order to show her affection to them. Rather she likes to have some privacy from them. But her parents take this change in her in other way. Neither Margot nor did she ever utter a single word to them about the change that has occurred in them. They have not done so because they know that their parents will never understand them correctly.

Anne also writes that they have grown mature sooner than other girls of their age. That may be the reason as to why their parents treat them like children. Anne knows it well that she has developed her own ideas, opinions and several principles although it may sound strange to come from any teenager. She thinks that she is better than her mother is several ways. She knows it well that she (Anne) is no more impersonal in judging things and does not exaggerate matters like her mother. She also has an edge over her mother in cleanliness, in loving, admiring and respecting anyone. But she feels neither admiration nor respect for her mother.

Finally Anne writes that everything would seem all right to her if she had Peter with her because she admire him for many decent things that he is capable of doing.

Saturday, March 18, 1944

In this diary entry, Anne writes that the parents should educate their children about sex without feeling any hesitation. They should tell them the facts about sex according to their requirements at the age of eleven or so when physical and mental changes start occurring in them. If the parents do not explain to them anything about it, they would gather incomplete information from here and there about it. After that, Anne also writes as to how the parents might be afraid that their children would stop believing in the sanctity or purity of marriage. But she has different opinion about it. She does not think sex to be a taboo and has anything impure about it. Anne’s mother did not educate her about it, so she had to be dependent on her friend Jackes.

March 19, 2044

Anne went upstairs to give Peter some sausage to eat, but he did not accept it for the sake of good manners. Anne took it otherwise and she came downstairs with tears in her eyes. She thought that Peter was crossed with her, so he refused to accept it from her. It made her upset for some time. Later on, she discussed the matter with him and came to know that it was not the matter. She felt relaxed.  In the evening Anne and Peter talked so much on the matters of their mutual interest that it turned out to be the most wonderful evening that she had ever had in the Annex.

First, they talked about the quarrels and how she takes them lightly; how both of them became alienated from their parents. She also told him about her mother, father, Margot and even about herself. He also told Anne that h e never kissed his parent, not even on his birthdays. He also mentioned as to how they both do not trust their parents. Peter further revealed about himself that how sometimes he cries out his heart in bed, goes up the loft and swears (curses). He added on that he has come in contact with Margot recently, but knows very little about her. Both of them also talked about the year 1942 and remembered how different they were; how they could not tolerate each other. He always thought about Anne that she was a noisy pest and she also found nothing special in him. Anne says that his silence and her noisy and exuberant external self are the two sides of the same thing.

The thing that pleased Peter most was that Anne helped her by being cheerful. He also told her that he never minded her coming to his room. She mentioned to him some more things and she was happy to realize that both of them shared the secret and he loves her as a friend.