“Coming of Age”

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First of all told, dope, Anne? s diary, c ame to help to regard in the beat of variety. girlish children often claim complex quantity friends. Anne Frank, by and by she followed her family into hiding, neer enjoyed this luxury. Her diary became Anne? s friend, her retreat from a microcosm imposed upon her and the cardinal other Jews impris aned in the loft because of Hitlers master protrude of genocide against Jews and other groups. evening before the Franks entered the loft, Anne had named her diary stool. (S gay). slew helps Anne deal with the ample change and the subscriber encounters it when she writes to her ab let on the Annex. Ive plausibly bored you with my foresightedsighted description of our house, provided I restrained deem you should k right pip w here Ive ended up (Frank 25) and when how her world turned pinnacle down because of the sharp change. It give awayms the like days since Sunday morning. So such(prenominal) has happened its as if the whole world had suddenly turned c all o ver down. But as you so-and-so see, Kitty, Im dumb liveborn (Frank 19).In these two quotes, Anne is promiseing Kitty that a lot set nearly water happened and she doesnt feel puff of aircap adapted being in hideout but at least she is still alive and has a friend who so-and-so specialise ein truththing. In paper to Kitty, Frank is riseing to reach out to the normal world beyond her confined quarters. She misses coach and her old friends. As the teenageest in the secret cast up, she is tough with condescension by the adults and some propagation scolded for her boisterousness. To overcome these feelings of isolation, she invents a friend in whom she can confide (Furst). I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I eng board never been able to confide in anyone (Frank 1). During her clip in the annex Anne feels that despite having her parents, its better to tell everything to Kitty. Paper has more patience than people (Frank 6). The Judaic misfire feels that no one inte confronted of what a thirteen year-old girl has to say and its better to write what she feels without business organization of being judged and that was actually hard for her because of being Jewish in times of the Holocaust. afterwards Germany invaded Netherlands and the organisation began to persecute Jews.Anne dropped her studies and lost contact with all her Jewish friends. During hideout, Kitty acted as Annes trusted confident when there was no one else to tell her secrets to. Kitty provided comfort in times of reach and companionship when she was lonely. I hope you will be a spacious source of comfort and clog up (Frank 1). Anne Frank was a popular girl in the school but she matte up like she didnt nourish a split up of friends and thats one of the reasons why she had such a strong race with Kitty. The reader later identifys that neither Mrs.Frank nor Margot offered more to Anne in the vogue of emotional support and even though Annes yield trie d everything he could, he failed. And yet for a long time Ive felt extremely lonely, left out, neglected and misunderstood. Father did everything he could to curb my contumacious spirit, but it was no use Why didnt father support me in my debate? Why did he guide pithy when he tried to offer me a helping flip over? The answer is he used the wrong methods. He always talked to me as if I were a child sack through a attempt phase (Frank 329).Anne does picture that her father did try to help her but he failed although Kitty didnt. Kitty was always with her. So far you truly purpose over been a massive source of comfort to me, and so has Kitty, whom I presently write to regularly. This way of keeping a diary is much nicer, and now I can hardly wait for those moments when Im able to write in you. Oh, Im so glad I brought you along (Frank 1). Furthermore, during her silence from the German soldiers, Anne started to show physical signs of recrudesceing up as her be starte d to change.Anne Frank? s puberty began when she was 13 years old. Her breasts started to developed and because of the change, she had a skanky urge to feel her breast at night in bed. In addition, hair began to grow, and at the end Anne in conclusion got her expiration. I imagine that whats happening to me is so wonderful, and I wear thint on the dot mean the changes taking place on the extracurricular of my body, but withal those on the inside. I never discuss myself or any of these things with others, which is why I realise to talk about them to myself.Whenever I have my period (and thats only been three times), I have the feeling that in spite of all the pain, discomfort and mess, Im carrying roughly a sweet secret (Frank 160). At many points in her diary, the young girl expresses her desire to grow up so that her family take her seriously and she hopes to have her period thinking of it as physical sign of adulthood would make others respect her. When her period didn? t brought her family to respect her maturity, she continue to enjoy it as a sweet secret. At the time she made her maiden entries into her now-famous diary, she was pampered and immature (Shauman).During Annes changes, the reader feels that she is no agelong a uninformed kid because she leaves her normal childhood behind and becomes more mature and paying attention due to the unusual circumstances of the Holocaust. I was piteous then (and still do) from moods that kept my head under water (figuratively speaking) and allowed me to see things only from my own perspective, without calmly considering what the others- those whom I, with my mercurial temperament, had hurt or offended- had said, and then acting as they would have make (Frank 157-158).This quote shows that Anne began to grow up, reflecting more objectively on her own behaviour. Puberty is not only changes in the person body but its in like manner a transition from childhood to adulthood. unrivaled cause of the sudde n change in Anne was struggle. The war is departure to go on despite our quarrels and our longing for freedom and seraphic air, so we should try to make the best to stay here. Im preaching, but I also believe that if I live here much longitudinal Ill turn into dried-up old beanstalk. And all I rattling want is to be an honest-to- sizableness teenager (Frank 169). Anne believes that war has made her grow old too quickly.She lost her chance to be a young person, enjoying life. As part of Annes development into a young adult, she started to develop an identity separated from her parents and a capacity of decision-making. She started to perplex teenage disintegration mostly towards her aim. Margot and begins personalities are so alien to me. I understand my girlfriends better than my own mother. Isnt that a shame? (Frank 42). This is one of the first times that Anne expresses a typical jejune sentiment that she can relate to her friends better than to her own family.Through out the diary, Anne presents her mother in a negatively charged and judgemental fashion. Anne sees her mother as an irritating figure of dictum and she frequently wrote of her unenviable relationship with her. One reason why Anne has problems with her mother is because Mrs. Frank sees Anne as a friend. Ive suddenly come acrossd whats wrong with her. Mother has said that she sees us more as friends than as daughters. Thats all very nice, of course, except that a friend cant take the place of a mother.I need my mother to ready a good example and be a person I can respect, but in most matters shes an example of what not to do (Frank 159). Anne tells Kitty that she needs a mother that possesses a corking deal of tact, particularly towards her adolescent children, and not one who pokes fun at her when she cries. Finally, as Anne continues to grow, she develops the intelligence of gender differences and also the specialness of the body. During her hideout, Anne complains that it? s real easy to see exactly what a unsanded man looks like because of pictures, but its authentically hard to see a naked picture of a woman. Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my history book, I go into ecstasy. sometimes I find them so exquisite I have to struggle to hold back my tears. If I only had a girlfriend (Frank 161). That? s probably one of the reasons that she take oned herself when she was in the annex. The reader also finds out that, before going into hiding, Anne had a sexual crotchet about the human body. Unconsciously, I had these feelings even before I came here. erst when I was expenditure the night at Jacques, I could no yearner restrain my curiosity about her bodyI call fored wether, as a proof of our friendly relationship, we could touch each others breasts. Jacque refused. I also had a terrible desire to kiss her, which I did (Frank 161). Through her thoughts evince to Kitty, the reader appreciates that Anne was ripening up really fast. The young girl was in the stage of trying to find sock and have a relationship. When Anne duologue about her crawl in life, things gets confusing because there were multiple beaks during Annes short life. When Anne was thirteen she already had boys on the brain and she had a lot of admirers. I have a throng of admirers who cant keep their adore eyes off me and who sometimes have to resort to using a broken air hole mirror to try and catch a glance of me in the schoolroom (Frank 7). Anne does seem to be a male magnet and before going into the annex, she experienced a relationship with a sixteen-year-old clapperclaw named shaft Schiff hitherto their relationship soon ended because Anne was too young. After going into hiding, she met instrument Van Daan, a shy boy in the annex that Anne has no taste for at first. However later in the diary, Anne begins having stargazes of Peter Schiff. I immediately remembered what Id been dreaming about. I was sitting on a chair an d across from me was Peter Peter Schiff (Frank 162). Those dreams that Anne had, mark what she thinks to be a significant change in herself. I (there I go again ) dont know whats happened, but since my dream I keep noticing how Ive changed (Frank 170). Those changes are a result of change magnitude interest in romantic love and sex. It seems that Anne started to realize that she wanted love and companionship so desperately that she blinded herself to who Peter Van Daan really was. No, I think about Peter much more than I do Father. I know very thoroughly that he was my conquest, and not the other way round. I created an image of him in my mind, pictured him as a quiet, sweet, sensitive boy badly in need of friendship and love I needed to pour out my heart to a living person. When I ultimately got him to be my friend, it mechanically developed into an parsimony that, when I think about it now, seems outrageous. (Frank 330). The fourteen-years-old girl initiates a healthy curiosit y about a natural part of growing up. A very strange thing has happened to me.Before I came here, whenever anyone at national or at school talked about sex, they were either secretive or disgusting. Any oral communication having to do with sex were spoken in a low whisper. That in love me as odd, and I often wondered why people were so cabalistic or obnoxious when they talked about this progeny (Frank 172). The young girl is in a mature stage where she really doesnt see why people laugh or get swart about the subject and she really wants to know about sex. Before going into hiding, she tried to ask her friends about the subject. I said as runty as executable or asked my girlfriends for information (Frank 172-173).Also, Anne asked her parents, but they were not open air about sex and sexuality and thats why she refractory to ask Peter about sex and later she talks to Margot in the bathroom. In the end, Anne Frank died in early March 1945, in a submergence camp. During hidin g, Annelies Frank never could get use to the annex and she always felt lonely and misunderstood. crimson though she had a horrific childhood, that didnt stop the enthusiastic young girl to experience normal teenage phases such as having an imaginary companion, facing mental & physical changes, and possessing sexual curiosity.Work Cited ? Frank, Annelies Marie. THE daybook OF A newborn GIRL ANNE FRANL. THE DEFINITIVE EDITION. United States of America Penguin Books, 1995. 341. ? Shuman, R. Baird, . The journal of a teenaged Girl. literary Reference Center. EBSCO, n. d. Web. 29 May 2012. ? Furst, Lilian R. The daybook of a Young Girl. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO, n. d. Web. 30 May 2012. ? Shauman, R. Baird. Anne Frank. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO, n. d. Web. 30 May 2012.Coming of ageComing of age On January 1 9th, 2008 1 was the happiest person alive. It was very hot and rejoicing out.. I remember how nice of weather it was. My family and I had taken a vacation to Flori da and it was one of the best experiences of my life. 7 years was a long time ago, but still remember every single concomitant about that trip. On that day, one of the best things ever in my life happened. Even though most people dont think this Is a tolerant deal, It was a very big deal to me.When I was In wide-eyed school my friends would always ask me if I wanted to go biking around the neighborhood.. I would always have to say no because I did not know how to ride a bike. As much as I tried to learn how, I would always hold in up. Nothing would work. I was the last of my friends to learn how to ride a bike. It always made me distressing watching people bike down the road.. Wishing I knew how to do that. Then one day, my cousin Lexis who Is 2 years younger than me decided she was going to teach me how to ride a bike. E Insisted on It. assistant Youre missing out on so much You need to learn The whole day I thought to myself how many people have tried to teach me how to ride a bike and failed. It was hopeless. I was substantiating I wasnt going to learn anytime soon.. Maybe even never. Later that day, Lexis came over with her bike, and I had mine. Every minute that went by felt like an hour. Even though I could see the disappointment on her face, she wasnt going to give up on me. Finally, there was hope.She had done it We had done it.. I had done it. I was biking down the sidewalk with the biggest smile on my face. I had finally learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. I could finally ride one on my own and be like the rest of the kids. I remember being full of joy that day and ride my bike the whole day long. On that day, I felt different, I felt as if a huge weight had just been displace off my shoulders. It was an amazing feeling that Ill definitely never forget.Coming of boardIn life most people just cannot wait for the chance of becoming a grown up. Anticipating the chance to have more independence and the opportunity to do things that were perceived as being mature and cool. While growing up, the people suffer through a set of changes as they develop a sexually mature adult body. While these changes are primarily physical in nature, profound mental, emotional and social, changes also occur as youth adapt to their maturing bodies. A young Jewish girl who had to go into hiding during the Second World War to escape from the persecution of the Nazis suffered a lot.Although rejected and isolated, she didn? t stop showing signs of coming of age as a normal girl such as having an imaginary friend, entering puberty and having sexual curiosity. First of all, Kitty, Anne? s diary, came to help to deal in the time of transition. Young children often have imaginary friends. Anne Frank, after she followed her family into hiding, never enjoyed this luxury. Her diary became Anne? s friend, her retreat from a microcosm imposed upon her and the seven other Jews imprisoned in the loft because of Hitlers master plan of genocid e against Jews and other groups.Even before the Franks entered the loft, Anne had named her diary Kitty. (Shuman). Kitty helps Anne deal with the huge change and the reader sees it when she writes to her about the Annex. Ive probably bored you with my long description of our house, but I still think you should know where Ive ended up (Frank 25) and when how her world turned upside down because of the sudden change. It seems like years since Sunday morning. So much has happened its as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. But as you can see, Kitty, Im still alive (Frank 19).In these two quotes, Anne is congress Kitty that a lot have happened and she doesnt feel at rest being in hideout but at least she is still alive and has a friend who can tell everything. In writing to Kitty, Frank is trying to reach out to the normal world beyond her confined quarters. She misses school and her old friends. As the youngest in the secret annex, she is treated with condescension by the adults and sometimes scolded for her boisterousness. To overcome these feelings of isolation, she invents a friend in whom she can confide (Furst). I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone (Frank 1). During her time in the annex Anne feels that despite having her parents, its better to tell everything to Kitty. Paper has more patience than people (Frank 6). The Jewish girl feels that no one interested of what a thirteen year-old girl has to say and its better to write what she feels without fear of being judged and that was really hard for her because of being Jewish in times of the Holocaust. After Germany invaded Netherlands and the government began to persecute Jews.Anne dropped her studies and lost contact with all her Jewish friends. During hideout, Kitty acted as Annes trusted confident when there was no one else to tell her secrets to. Kitty provided comfort in times of stress and companionship when she was lonel y. I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support (Frank 1). Anne Frank was a popular girl in the school but she felt like she didnt have a lots of friends and thats one of the reasons why she had such a strong relationship with Kitty. The reader later learns that neither Mrs.Frank nor Margot offered much to Anne in the way of emotional support and even though Annes father tried everything he could, he failed. And yet for a long time Ive felt extremely lonely, left out, neglected and misunderstood. Father did everything he could to curb my rebellious spirit, but it was no use Why didnt father support me in my struggle? Why did he fall short when he tried to offer me a helping hand? The answer is he used the wrong methods. He always talked to me as if I were a child going through a difficult phase (Frank 329).Anne does realize that her father did try to help her but he failed although Kitty didnt. Kitty was always with her. So far you truly have been a great source of comf ort to me, and so has Kitty, whom I now write to regularly. This way of keeping a diary is much nicer, and now I can hardly wait for those moments when Im able to write in you. Oh, Im so glad I brought you along (Frank 1). Furthermore, during her concealment from the German soldiers, Anne started to show physical signs of growing up as her body started to change.Anne Frank? s puberty began when she was 13 years old. Her breasts started to developed and because of the change, she had a terrible urge to feel her breast at night in bed. In addition, hair began to grow, and at the end Anne finally got her period. I think that whats happening to me is so wonderful, and I dont just mean the changes taking place on the outside of my body, but also those on the inside. I never discuss myself or any of these things with others, which is why I have to talk about them to myself.Whenever I have my period (and thats only been three times), I have the feeling that in spite of all the pain, disco mfort and mess, Im carrying around a sweet secret (Frank 160). At many points in her diary, the young girl expresses her desire to grow up so that her family take her seriously and she hopes to have her period thinking of it as physical sign of adulthood would make others respect her. When her period didn? t brought her family to respect her maturity, she continued to enjoy it as a sweet secret. At the time she made her first entries into her now-famous diary, she was pampered and immature (Shauman).During Annes changes, the reader feels that she is no longer a naive kid because she leaves her normal childhood behind and becomes more mature and thoughtful due to the unusual circumstances of the Holocaust. I was suffering then (and still do) from moods that kept my head under water (figuratively speaking) and allowed me to see things only from my own perspective, without calmly considering what the others- those whom I, with my mercurial temperament, had hurt or offended- had said, a nd then acting as they would have done (Frank 157-158).This quote shows that Anne began to grow up, reflecting more objectively on her own behaviour. Puberty is not only changes in the person body but its also a transition from childhood to adulthood. One cause of the sudden change in Anne was war. The war is going to go on despite our quarrels and our longing for freedom and fresh air, so we should try to make the best to stay here. Im preaching, but I also believe that if I live here much longer Ill turn into dried-up old beanstalk. And all I really want is to be an honest-to-goodness teenager (Frank 169). Anne believes that war has made her grow old too quickly.She lost her chance to be a young person, enjoying life. As part of Annes development into a young adult, she started to develop an identity separated from her parents and a capacity of decision-making. She started to experience teenage rebellion mostly towards her mother. Margot and Mothers personalities are so alien to me. I understand my girlfriends better than my own mother. Isnt that a shame? (Frank 42). This is one of the first times that Anne expresses a typical adolescent sentiment that she can relate to her friends better than to her own family.Throughout the diary, Anne presents her mother in a negative and judgemental fashion. Anne sees her mother as an irritating figure of authority and she frequently wrote of her difficult relationship with her. One reason why Anne has problems with her mother is because Mrs. Frank sees Anne as a friend. Ive suddenly realized whats wrong with her. Mother has said that she sees us more as friends than as daughters. Thats all very nice, of course, except that a friend cant take the place of a mother.I need my mother to set a good example and be a person I can respect, but in most matters shes an example of what not to do (Frank 159). Anne tells Kitty that she needs a mother that possesses a great deal of tact, especially towards her adolescent children, and not one who pokes fun at her when she cries. Finally, as Anne continues to grow, she develops the sense of gender differences and also the curiosity of the body. During her hideout, Anne complains that it? s really easy to see exactly what a naked man looks like because of pictures, but its really hard to see a naked picture of a woman. Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my history book, I go into ecstasy. Sometimes I find them so exquisite I have to struggle to hold back my tears. If I only had a girlfriend (Frank 161). That? s probably one of the reasons that she touched herself when she was in the annex. The reader also finds out that, before going into hiding, Anne had a sexual curiosity about the human body. Unconsciously, I had these feelings even before I came here. Once when I was spending the night at Jacques, I could no longer restrain my curiosity about her bodyI asked wether, as a proof of our friendship, we could touch each others breasts. Jacque refused. I also had a terrible desire to kiss her, which I did (Frank 161). Through her thoughts expressed to Kitty, the reader appreciates that Anne was growing up really fast. The young girl was in the stage of trying to find love and have a relationship. When Anne talks about her love life, things gets confusing because there were multiple Peters during Annes short life. When Anne was thirteen she already had boys on the brain and she had a lot of admirers. I have a throng of admirers who cant keep their adoring eyes off me and who sometimes have to resort to using a broken pocket mirror to try and catch a glimpse of me in the classroom (Frank 7). Anne does seem to be a male magnet and before going into the annex, she experienced a relationship with a sixteen-year-old guy named Peter Schiff however their relationship soon ended because Anne was too young. After going into hiding, she met Peter Van Daan, a shy boy in the annex that Anne has no taste for at first. However later in the diary, Anne begins having dreams of Peter Schiff. I immediately remembered what Id been dreaming about. I was sitting on a chair and across from me was Peter Peter Schiff (Frank 162). Those dreams that Anne had, mark what she thinks to be a significant change in herself. I (there I go again ) dont know whats happened, but since my dream I keep noticing how Ive changed (Frank 170). Those changes are a result of increased interest in romantic love and sex. It seems that Anne started to realize that she wanted love and companionship so desperately that she blinded herself to who Peter Van Daan really was. No, I think about Peter much more than I do Father. I know very well that he was my conquest, and not the other way round. I created an image of him in my mind, pictured him as a quiet, sweet, sensitive boy badly in need of friendship and love I needed to pour out my heart to a living person. When I finally got him to be my friend, it automatically developed into an intimacy that, when I think about it now, seems outrageous. (Frank 330). The fourteen-years-old girl initiates a healthy curiosity about a natural part of growing up. A very strange thing has happened to me.Before I came here, whenever anyone at home or at school talked about sex, they were either secretive or disgusting. Any words having to do with sex were spoken in a low whisper. That struck me as odd, and I often wondered why people were so mysterious or obnoxious when they talked about this subject (Frank 172). The young girl is in a mature stage where she really doesnt see why people laugh or get mysterious about the subject and she really wants to know about sex. Before going into hiding, she tried to ask her friends about the subject. I said as little as possible or asked my girlfriends for information (Frank 172-173).Also, Anne asked her parents, but they were not open about sex and sexuality and thats why she decided to ask Peter about sex and later she talks to Margot in the bathroom. In the end, Anne Frank died in early March 1945, in a concentration camp. During hiding, Annelies Frank never could get use to the annex and she always felt lonely and misunderstood. Even though she had a horrific childhood, that didnt stop the enthusiastic young girl to experience normal teenage phases such as having an imaginary companion, facing mental & physical changes, and possessing sexual curiosity.Work Cited ? Frank, Annelies Marie. THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL ANNE FRANL. THE DEFINITIVE EDITION. United States of America Penguin Books, 1995. 341. ? Shuman, R. Baird, . The Diary of a Young Girl. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO, n. d. Web. 29 May 2012. ? Furst, Lilian R. The Diary of a Young Girl. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO, n. d. Web. 30 May 2012. ? Shauman, R. Baird. Anne Frank. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO, n. d. Web. 30 May 2012.