Compare And Contrast Anne Frank's Relationship With Her Mother

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In The Entry 2 January, 1944, Anne writes in her diary that her relationship with her mother isn’t the mother daughter you would hope it would be. Anne is getting older and getting independent now and doesn't want her mother to interfere with any of it. Anne shows signs that her relationship with her mother is a pleasant field of hate and unpleasantness between them both. When Anne writes in her diary she starts off with saying “Anne, is it really you who who mentioned hate? Oh, Anne, how could you!” Later on in the entry Anne says more “I should have been so brimful of rage and really so filled with such a thing as hate that I had to confide it all in you.” What Anne is saying in her diary so far is that she has a thing for hate with her

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