Saturday 27 April 2013

Developing as a writer....

How and why does Anne develop as a writer during her two years in hiding? What
influences her perception of herself as a writer and how does this affect her relationships
with other people? How does it change the way she views herself as a person?

 


 

10 comments:

  1. She had started keeping diary about a month ago before she came in to the hiding. During her two years of life in hiding, she had kept diary regularly about daily life and her outburst of feelings. She said in the diary, "I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.". She named her diary "Kitty" and Kitty was, to say, her true friend, whom she can share every feelings without concealing anything. By pouring her intense feelings of anger, depression, scare, solitude and longing for love, she was able to control herself and not to take her frustration out on everyone else in the hiding.

    She also said, "I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts my ideals and my fantasies." By writing down her troubles and complicated feelings, she was able to put her feelings in order and investigate the problems more calmly and through these processes she was able to view herself as a person and developed herself. Also, she was able to read back what she had written in the past, compare with herself present and recognise her development.

    Her diary was not the only thing she wrote, but also stories, mainly fantasies and fairy tales. She had hoped to be writer or journalist in the future. Although, unfortunately, she had passed away before she could become a writer, she had achieved her dream in a way because her diary is being read by the people in all over the world. She said, "I want to go on living even after my death!" , and she is always living in our heart, through her real voice expressed in the form of diary.

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  2. Anne received a diary from her father for her birthday present and she started to write of her emotions and feelings on the diary. The reason why she started to write her diary is that because she had no such friends to share her problems.

    She called her diary as 'Kitty'. She thought no one would grasp what she was talking about if she began her letter to
    Kitty just out of the blue.

    She had taken her diary into the Secret Annex before she left her old house and wrote the special things that had happened to her. She spent her most time with her diary. Her diary help Anne to control her feelings of anger as she wrote everything on the diary.

    As I read this book, I could understand how Anne felt as she wrote it on her diary. She wrote that her daddy and mummy never rebuke Margot and that they always drop on Anne for everything.
    I could feel how Anne felt as I suffered the same thing that what Anne had suffered.

    Anne read her diary that she had written in the past.
    She hated her mother so much and she wrote the most of the feeling of anger about her mother that how her mother had been mean to he. However as she grew up and see what she had written in the past, she started to feel sorry to her mother and she thought that she had been mean to her mother so I think the diary helped Anne to think about her mother again.

    She wanted to become a journalist(writer). ( Actually this diary helped her to become a famous writer of the story of teenager). She liked to write stories, poems, things that had happened in different days(wrote it on her diary),etc and I think these things helped her to improve in her writing skills. She also liked to read books.

    The reason why Anne Frank's diary had become a famous history book in the world is because she had written how she suffered her sadness and the worries during the world war 2 and most of the teenagers can understand how Anne felt as she spent her teenager life in the Secret Annex as she wrote in details. The things that she had written in her diary were the things that some of the teenagers might can suffer those problems that Anne had suffered( example, feel lonely,etc). Also this dairy helps teenagers to help understand what happened to the Jewish during the world war 2.

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  3. She received the diary on her thirteenth birthday from her father and she started calling it 'Kitty'. She kept writing her diary because she didn't have any true friends, felt isolated even though she had her loving family. So, 'Kitty' was her imaginary girlfriend who she could tell everything honestly. She began writing it before she went into hiding.

    A diary recorded her emotions, feelings, hopes and experiences. She wrote about life in hiding and relationship, people in hiding, books she read.
    She also wrote the quotes, poems and short stories such as fairy tales.
    She wrote all her feelings of anger, sadness, loneliness and in the diary so she could she herself as a person.

    Her diary was published by her father after the war and has been read by countless people around the world. Her dream for the future was to become a writer or journalist, and her father made her dream true.

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  4. On 14th of June in 1942, she started to write a diary. She called her diary Kitty. She usually wrote about her daily life.Kitty was her real friend and she didn't have any other friend.

    In the beginning, she was saying whatever she wanted but she learned that that might make that person feel bad, so she started to write those feeling on her real friend Kitty and control herself in front of the person. She wrote all her emotions and feelings like anger, happiness, irritation, loneliness, sadness and scare. She also wrote about her experiences that she had. She wrote everything that happened to her.

    She had a lot of free time and nothing to do, so she spent most of her time reading and writing to be a journalist or a writer.

    After she passed away, her father published her diary. It wasn't in the way Anne was thinking but her dream came true.

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  5. Anne frank, before hiding she tried to write in the diary but after she went inside the secret annex to hide she only got a chance of writing it for twice a week. The only thing where she can share her secrets with is her diary, and she calls her diary " kitty".

    She got kitty for her birthday from her father, she was thirteen then. She took her kitty with her because she has no one to share her secrets or her problems with.

    She didn't like to be a young woman but she was treated like hat, she hates her mom, her sister Margot is smarter than her, there are these non-Jewish people who helps Anne's family from the Nazis and she start loving Peter Van Dan

    However after she died her diary became really popular and it even tells how the Jews suffered while the war was on.

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  6. The act of keeping a diary and the regularly entries made Anne develop as a writer, since she was really descriptive about her surroundings and feelings to make Kitty feel like she was actually part of the Secret Annexe. Not only the imagery in her writing but also you could see the improvement in language, because of all the work she had put into her studies and reading.
    I think that having a diary also lets you learn a lot about yourself and what is happening around you. Since Anne spend a lot of time thinking and writing her emotions down, she started to realize how she felt about the others and also tried to understand them and improve her way towards them.
    Anne also read a lot of books that she compared her diary and other stories written by her to. She started to think that she could really become an admirable writer herself, but she had to improve a lot. Also this also affected her in believing that she was independently successful.

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  7. The Dairy was given to Anne on her 13th Birthday. She named the Dairy "Kitty", and from the very beginning she considered Kitty as a true friend, with whom she could share her true feelings, emotions and see herself developing as a writer.

    Anne reported all sort of things that happened in the Secret Annxe, and she expressed what she thought. Sort of like me, she always said what she felt, but since she had no one really existing to tell her true feelings she shared them with Kitty.

    The dairy entries grew over time, not only her writing developed, but Anne herself became more mature. Later often reviewing "grown up" books she read, she started talking about boys and her true love for Peter, and her day to day opinions on the war. She never followed a certain schedule regarding her dairy entries.

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  8. Anne received a diary from her father for her 13th birthday as a present, right before her and her family went into hiding. She named it "Kitty" and always considered her as her only true friend who she could express all her feelings and thoughts to.
    As Anne wrote in her diary from time to time, she let all of her excitement, fear, happiness, and depression spill into her diary. As she wrote in her diary, she described every moment of her thrill and fear so it was descriptive enough to make Kitty feel exactly what she was feeling. Anne also read, studied, and wrote proms and stories in her free time which developed her way of writing and her perspective of thinking. As her writing developed, she also became more mature and her outlook on the world and of the members in the Secret Annexe changed from time to time.
    Anne could feel herself maturing as she wrote in her diary and studied in her free time. After all her hard work in writing, she started to believe she that would become an exceptional writer herself.

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  9. On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank received a diary in which she confides all her secrets and fears, which is how we know about her. At the beggining of the book, you can see how she describes kitty as her friend in which she can tell everything, from jokes heard to books read to challenges undertaken.

    At the beggining of her time in hiding, she is feisty and argumentative, but as she stays longer she starts to mature and become more serious. One passage that marqued me in this book is the fact that at one point she describes an angry and bad image of her mother, utterly confused and angry at her. However, later in the book, when she says she had been rereading her previous pages, she feels terribly sorry and apologizes to kitty for having been immature.

    In truth, Anne was a brilliant writer who managed to transcribe her feelings into words, which I find is a skill. In fact, Anne wanted to become a writer but she got murdered in a concentration camp before she could realize her dream. However, her father published the book, and made us see how difficult her life had been, and how we should avoid any more cruelty of the sort.

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  10. Anne had dreams of becoming a journalist while she was in hiding. She was writing her diary constantly which helped her to improve her writing skills. She also was a book reader which helped her get ideas of how to write and to improve writing skills.

    She wrote all her feelings in this diary. She wrote her feelings about the horrors of the war and how people were being taken into concentration camps. She also describes about the fights in the house with mrs. Vaan Dan and her mother. In the middle of the book she tells that she did not have a proper relationship with her mother. She tells about her affection towards Peter.

    When she gradually starts maturing up, she starts caring for her mother. Her maturity reduced fights between mrs. Vaan Dan and herself. She realizes that she was childish and calms down a lot.

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