character sketch mrs frank in 200-250 words for boards
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ANNE’S MOTHER
Anne’s mother Edith Hollander Frank was a housewife whose family came from Aachen , a town on Germany’s western border , near Belgium. Like her husband , she came from the comfortable middle classes and was accustomed to a life of relative ease , with most of the work in the house being done by servants. Her husband was eleven years older than she was , being thirty-six to her twenty-five when they were married in 1925.
In the ‘Secret Annexe’, Mrs. Frank was obliged to perform various tasks which she had not formerly been accustomed to doing. This obviously was not easy for her possibly much of the bad feeling between Anne and her mother may have been due to this and the effect that the cramped living conditions had on everyone’s nerves.
Anne has very little sympathy for her mother during their tumultuous years in the annexe but later in her diary , however , Anne attempts to look at her mother’s life as a wife and mother from a more objective viewpoint. Despite her new perspective , Anne continues to feel estranged from her sentimental , critical mother and irrevocably deems her unfit. In terms of her mothering skills , she is somewhat of a . disappointment to Anne , who would prefer her to be more affectionate and accepting a peacemaker , she is the voice of reason during adult fights in the annexe.
After her arrest , Mrs. Frank was taken with her family to Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam and the Westerbork reception camp. There, according to an eyewitness , she was very quiet. Like other members of the group , Mrs. Frank was included in the last shipment of the people to be sent to Auschwitz , she was still with Anne and Margot, though separated from Mr. Frank.
The events which Mrs. Frank had been through , the hunger , the privation , had unhinged her mind and she refused to eat. She was forty-five years old when she died in her bed before the SS guards fled from the camp. Because the diary consists of only Anne’s thoughts and perspectives, we are never able to gain much insight into Mrs. Frank’s own personal thoughts or feelings.
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♣ THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL by ANNE FRANK.
✍️ It is based on the life of a girl named Anne ,how she and her family used to struggle and survive during the terror of Nazis rule.
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♣ Character sketch of Mrs. Frank, the mother of Anne Frank.
✍️ Anne has very little sympathy for her mother during their tumultuous years in the annex, and she has few kind words to say about her, particularly in the earlier entries.
✍️ Anne feels that her mother is cold, critical, and uncaring, that they have very little in common, and that her mother does not know how to show love to her children. Like Margot, Mrs. Frank is mentioned almost exclusively in instances when she is the source of Anne’s anger and frustration. Anne rarely comments on her mother’s positive traits.
✍️ Later in her diary, however, Anne attempts to look at her mother’s life as a wife and mother from a more objective viewpoint. As Anne gets older and gains a clearer perspective, she begins to regret her quick, petty judgments of her mother. Anne has more sympathetic feelings for Mrs.
✍️In the "Secret Annexe," Mrs. Frank was obliged to perform various tasks which she had not formerly been accustomed to doing. In addition, she was living in cramped quarters, together with her family and another four people. This obviously was not easy for her, and possibly much of the bad feeling between Anne and her mother may have been due to this and the effect that the cramped living conditions had on everyone's nerves.
✍️ After her arrest, Mrs. Frank was taken with her family to Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam and the Westerbork reception camp. There, according to an eyewitness, she was very quiet. "She seemed numbed all the time. Edith Frank could have been a mute. She said nothing at work, and in the evenings, she was always washing underclothing. The water was murky and there was no soap, but she went on washing, all the time."
✍️ Like the other members of the group, Mrs. Frank was included in the last shipment of people to be sent to Auschwitz from Holland in early September 1944. At Auschwitz, she was still with Anne and Margot, though separated from Mr. Frank.
✍️ There was a "selection" among the women at Auschwitz, and the younger and healthier ones were sent on to the Belsen concentration camp.
✍️ Anne and Margot were included in this group, while Mrs. Frank was left behind. The events which she had been through, the hunger, and the privation, had unhinged her mind, and she refused to eat.
✍️ She began collecting what few crusts of bread she could find and hiding them in her bed, saying that they were for her husband. The bread spoiled, but still she continued to hoard it, unwilling or unable to eat.
✍️ She was forty-five years old when she died in her bed in Auschwitz on January 6, 1945, ten days before the SS guards fled from the camp.
✍️ Frank and begins to realize how Mrs. Frank’s gender and entrapment in the annex have created many obstacles for her. Despite her new perspective, Anne continues to feel estranged from her sentimental, critical mother and irrevocably deems her unfit. It seems that Mrs. Frank’s inability to provide emotional support for her daughter stems in part from the stress and pain of the persecution and forced confinement.
✍️ Because the diary consists of only Anne’s thoughts and perspectives, we are never able to gain much insight into Mrs. Frank’s own personal thoughts or feelings.
