The Struggles of Anne Frank in Comparison to my Own Anne Frank and I are very similar in many aspects of life, yet very different from each other. We are both girls in the midst of our pubescent years, but she lives with the burden of the Holocaust, and I do not. When I read The Diary of Anne Frank, a play, by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, I became aware of many of her challenges. Oddly enough, I thought, her challenges are very similar to mine. I, like many teens, don’t always understand myself, I need comfort and someone to talk to, and have trouble trying to deal with my parents arguing. Children try to be good for their parents, but many times are unable to when they are angered by their parents, so in turn they seem as if they are a bad person in general. This very thing occurs in Anne and myself, very similarly. Anne is in a depressed mood as she describes to her father how she feels that she is a kind person on the inside, but on the outside her more rude and “bad” side comes out. As Anne …show more content…
It upsets her how there is so much bad in the world, and that people can’t be happy and kind to each other, especially in a time of depression, when team growth is needed the most. She is then lead to the need of comfort. She wants the Van Daans to end their quarreling. She hates how Dussel doesn’t favor her very much, etc. Dussel and Anne are forced to share a room together, and Dussel always complains to the other adults about how annoying she is, which causes more arguing, which stresses her out even more. She feels that the fighting will never end, just as she does the war. Her parents and the Van Daans also carry the burden of the fighting. They get into a fight so big that Mrs. Frank is screaming at the Van Daans to leave. Mr Frank says, “We don’t need the Nazis to destroy us. We’re destroying ourselves” (504). They end up crying and forgiving each other, but it is a very stressful