What Are The Relationships In The Diary Of A Young Girl

Relationships With “Yours Truly, Anne”

In The Diary Of A Young Girl Anne a young Jewish girl hiding her life away in a secret annex alone yet with others near by had a relationship that deeply affected her stay in the secret annex. There were many relationships throughout the book, but the one that truly stuck out was her last… Peter Van Daan.

Anne had one of the most rough experiences in the secret annex. She was by herself, alone in a place with people she knew and have never met in her entire life. She was a young girl who didn’t know what to expect, what to look for in a world that felt like it was tumbling down. Anne never thought her diary would be something the entire world would read. On page 2 Anne states “It seems to me that neither

On page 54 Anne mentions “I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the coldest brutes.” She was in a tough time where there were guns, bombs, and planes going all day, the noises were tremendously terrifying especially at night. Anne mentions on page 92 “I can assure you that when I went to bed I couldn’t hold my legs still, I woke up at the stroke of 12; Planes.” At this point in the annex Anne began to talk and see someone who would eventually become extremely important to her, Peter. In the secret annex Anne began to realize the best thing would probably to start worrying more about her and her happiness, being the fact she was upset about 99.9% of the time. Some of the others in the home began to see this and one was her father Otto. Anne said on page 186 “daddy always says i’m prudish and vein.” At this point in the diary Anne began to go upstairs more and see Peter until everyone in the house didn’t like it. Otto Frank

They had a pretty odd relationship, it was sorta more like a very clingy friendship between a girl and a boy like on page 249 “...Peter loves me not as a lover but as a friend and grows more affectionate everyday.” Although the fact they had a three year gap between the two with Anne being 15 years old and Peter being 17 years old. I know this because Anna says on page 211 “a boy of seventeen and a half and a girl of just under fifteen?” They are both at this stage where they just want affection and love like on page 262 “he longs to be loved and I can say that he is beginning to be more and more in love with me.” Anne was at a place in her life where she really needed someone and at that point is where Peter came in like on page 218 Anne states “I have longed so much for so long - I am so lonely - and now I have found consolation.”

So although Anne was young Jewish girl hiding her life away, and facing the difficulties she had a friend, and a lover out of the same person to spend the time in the secret annex throughout her years in there, “yours truly,