How Does Anne Frank Mature

Throughout Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl,” you can tell that Anne, the writer, matures a lot throughout her diary. She makes a lot of transformations mentally, and you can tell she is really growing up. One page where you can see her mature is in pages 127-128, of her diary entry on January 2, 1944. She even discusses her previous immaturity. That alone makes the reader think that she is very self reflective, and she always thinks of her past mistakes. In this entry, there are several signs that show her maturity, but there are three specific keys to fully seeing her development. In the January 2 entry, the main thing she talks about is her self regret for what she said about her mom. The first example of Anne’s maturity is when she wrote about herself coming across letters about her mom. After she read those letters, she said to herself “...Anne, is it really you who mentioned hate? Oh, Anne, how could you!” This shows Anne’s self regret for what she said about her mom. She realizes how ignorant she was in the past, and you can tell that she regretted it very much. Luckily, Anne matured and realized that the tears she caused were not worth it at all.
The second big thing I noticed is when she talked about the moods she suffers from.
In her diary, she wrote “I suffer now----and suffered then---- from moods which kept my head under water (so to speak) and only allowed me to see things subjectively...” This shows Anne realizing that she made big past mistakes by having bad moods. She admitted to being selfish, which is a hard thing to do. She openly admits that she suffered moods that made it where she could only think about herself, and not what others are thinking. I can see why she would say that, because earlier on in the book you can see her getting mad for no apparent reason, besides just her being greedy. We all make mistakes, and sometimes the hardest thing to do is to admit to them, which Anne was mature enough to
do. The final big example of her maturity is when Anne realized that she could have just solved things calmly, instead of angrily writing stuff in her diary. Anne wrote “Those violent outbursts on paper were only giving vent to anger which in a normal life could have been worked off by stamping my feet a couple of times in a locked room, or calling Mummy names behind her back.” This shows that Anne knows what she did was very bad. She admits that she should have just let herself cool off by stamping her feet a couple of times, or discuss it with her mom. She also realizes that writing it all down everyday didn’t help, it just made it worse. Luckily, Anne will know that the next time she gets in a argument, she will be able to discuss it calmly with the person she is arguing with, without having to write it all down in her diary. After reading this entry in her diary, I’m sure everyone would agree that Anne quickly matured. While she still does make mistakes, as she mentioned, she doesn’t make them as often. And when she does, she knows how to correct them and how to discuss them without bringing someone to tears. She knows her mother loves her very much, and she really wants to make up for what she did. This just goes to show that everyone has room for improvement, no matter who they are.