Anne Frank's Maturity Essay

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This essay that i am about to type is about how Anne shows her maturity in this passage. Anne does show maturity but only in a couple ways. Forgiveness, blaming, and judging is all the maturity she did in this passage
The first way that Anne shows maturity is when she went back in her diary and sees when she was talking about mummy and she thought about how rude she was to her mom. Anne asked herself “Anne, is it really you who mentioned hate? Oh, Anne, how could you!” Anne said “I have been trying to understand the Anne of a year ago and to excuse her…” Anne was was being mature because she was trying to forgive herself for what she had done in the past.
The second way that she was being mature is that she is blaming herself for what she

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