Feb 4, 2011

Learning Log 7


Date: 2/3-4
Part: Page137-155
Reflection:

Recently, there was some good news from the broadcast, but relationships there in the Annex was getting worse. Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan had more battles because Mr. Van Daan lost his wallet at the warehouse; and they were broke. The incidence of air raids increased. What’s worse was that their friend Mr. Kleiman was terminally ill. “We’ve almost forgotten how to laugh…Let me out, where there’s fresh air and laughter.” 

On October 30, 1943, Anne really felt down in the dumps because of her dearest father. She had a conflict with Margot; her mother saw it and of course she took Margot’s side. Later on, Father was here, and without even knowing what was going on, saw that Margot was being wronged and lash out at Anne. “He (Father) doesn’t realize that he treats Margot differently than he does me: Margot just happens to be the smartest, the kindest, the prettiest and the best.” All parents in the world like to compare their children, and be partial to the better one. Sometimes they even prod the inferior one by praising the better one. However, I think this kind of deed only brought about pain, because it will seriously hurt the children’s heart. Take Anne as an example, she was crazy about her Father, but this time he really disappointed her. She felt no one in the family need or care about her, and she only felt isolated.

Anne really bore a lot of things which were not for her age: war, the Van Daans and Dussel’s irony, the relationship between her family, and the fear of being found. “If you were to read all my letters in one sitting, you’d be struck by the fact that they were written in a variety of moods.” Since Anne was an adolescent girl, this condition was quite normal. Hormones do affect a lot.





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