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Anne Frank has undergone significant emotional changes during her time in hiding, shifting from optimism to depression, as evidenced by her reflections on crying for relief and questioning her happiness. Her relationships with her family have experienced both bonding moments and strains, highlighted by laughter during shared experiences and her growing resentment towards her mother. Ultimately, Anne's hope has diminished, as she feels cut off from the outside world and only finds solace in her relatively better living conditions compared to other Jewish individuals.

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Anne Frank has undergone significant emotional changes during her time in hiding, shifting from optimism to depression, as evidenced by her reflections on crying for relief and questioning her happiness. Her relationships with her family have experienced both bonding moments and strains, highlighted by laughter during shared experiences and her growing resentment towards her mother. Ultimately, Anne's hope has diminished, as she feels cut off from the outside world and only finds solace in her relatively better living conditions compared to other Jewish individuals.

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1. Anne has now been in hiding for over a year and a half. How has she changed?

Cite
3-5 pieces of text evidence showing how she has changed. Analyze the quotes to
explain how she has changed.
While Anne has been hiding, she went from a generally optimistic attitude to
someone who is obviously [Link] pg 124, Anne writes,”Crying can bring such
relief.” She chooses to cry as a form of relief but though she could be letting it all out,
you wouldn’t exactly call that relief. Something that brings relief would be something
happy and hopeful. Crying it out is just getting it off your chest. On pg 126 Anne clearly
states her mood change, “Why then should I often be unhappy with what happens
here? Shouldn’t I always be glad, contented, and happy,” Here Anne questions her
mood. She thinks of her life compared to those of other Jewish people, but instead of
feeling lucky, she thinks of them remorsefully, and it only saddens her. She also clearly
states her depression, even though she doesn’t realize it on page 127,”I suffer now-and
suffered then-from moods which kept my head under water.” Just reading the quote
makes it sounds like she has always been depressed, but actually, it implies she
became depressed while she was hiding. When Anne first came to the secret annex
she did not feel like she was suffering. It wasn’t until much later she realized the
suffering she had been experiencing. She lost her optimistic attitude, while coming to
realize she has always been suffering.
2. Describe positive and negative impacts on Anne's relationship with her families since
she has been in hiding. Cite 3-5 pieces of text evidence to support your analysis.
Throughout her time in hiding, there have been some bonding experiences, but also
some withdrawals. A bonding experience would be like what happened on pg 121,” As
each owner took his shoe from the basket there was a resounding plea of laughter.”
When a holiday was approaching Anne wanted to do something to liven the mood, but
she had no materials with which to work. So she created a bonding experience with
very little necessities. Though there have also been times when the opposite has
happened on page 122 when Dussel, “(played) doctor.” Though he may have tried to
help Anne, actually having the title of a doctor, it only furthered their [Link] pg
127, she states that she has developed some sort of hate for her mother,” I came
across letters dealing with the subject ‘Mummy’ in such a hotheaded way that I was
quite shocked and asked myself:’Anne, is it really you who mentioned hate?’” Though
Anne may not have realized it, she has at one point, or even still has had disdain for her
mother.
3. Is Anne still hopeful? How do you know? What changes have occurred?
Anne has almost no hope left. Based on the way she acts, she has almost given up.
The only thing that gives her hope is her living conditions, which are better than the
ones of other Jewish people as they hid her well.
4. Would you still be hopeful? Why or why not? What would help you regain or maintain
hope?
I would most likely lose hope if I was in this situation. With the Germans taking away
all forms of news, making it impossible to know what was going on I would feel cut off
from humanity. I would become obsessed with who was winning the war, most likely.
The only way I could regain hope would be knowing that the Germans were losing.

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