NOTES FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Class X

FROM THR DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
than people. Secondly, she thought that

nobody would be interested in her diary as
Chapter Sketch she was a small girl.
In the chapter ‘From the Diary of Anne
Frank’, the writer Anne Frank tells about her Her Childhood and Family
true companion-a diary. She writes Anne called her father as the most adorable
everything about her life in her diary and person. He was 36 when he married her
considers it her true friend. At the time of mother, who was just 25. She has an older
invasion of German over Holland, her family sister Margot. She had about 30 people
hid itself. At that time she started to write around her but she had no true friend. They
in her diary. She spent her adolescent years lived in Frankfurt for sometime but as they
hidden from outside world, and her diary were Jewish they had to migrate to Holland
kept all her secrets. for refuge. Her mother stayed with her
grandmother but went to Holland to her
About the Characters father.
Anne Frank= The 13 years old Jewish girl Anne’s Schooling

who writes a diary while she is hiding in She was sent to a Montessori nursery
Amsterdam from the Nazis during World school. She stayed there until she was six.
War ll. At her farewell she and her headmistress
Margot Frank= Anne’s sister, she is three Mrs Kuperus had tears in their eyes.
years older than Anne. „
Otto Frank= Anne’s father, he is a Jewish Her Grandmother’s Death
businessman who left Germany after In the summer of 1941 her grandmother fell
Hitler’s rise to power, hoping to find refuge ill. She had to be. operated upon but she
in Holland. died in January 1942. It gave Anne a shock
Mrs Frank= Anne’s mother, she is the and she did not write her diary in that
source of many conflicts with Anne during period, but after that she wrote again as she
the two years that the family spends in thought of her grandmother’s love and
hiding. affection.
Mr Van Daan= A Jewish business and an
associate of Mr Frank’s. Her view About Teachers
Mr Keesing= Her teacher who punishes Anne was not good at maths so she and her
Anne as he gets annoyed by her talkative friends were always worried about it, but
nature. she was sure that she would go to the next
class. She always considered teachers to be
OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTER the most unpredictable creatures on the
Anne Frank’s First Entry in the Diary earth. So she told her friends not to lose
Anne Frank a thirteen year old girl was hope.
gifted a diary by her father. So she decided
to write in her diary which she considered Punishment by Mr Keesing
to be her best friend in loneliness and Anne was a good student and had a good
named it ‘Kitty’. She began writing in June relationship with all the teachers except Mr
1942. In her first entry she expressed her Keesing, who taught her Maths. He was
desire to confide everything to the diary as always annoyed by her talkative nature. He
she hadn’t been able to do so to anyone used to give her extra homework as
else. She felt that paper had more patience
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FROM THR DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
punishment. He asked her to write an essay 6. She was very close to her Grandma,
on ‘A Chatterbox.’ He also put a slip of it on after her death she felt very much
her bag to remind her about it. alone.
7. They lived in hiding for many years
Completion of Homework to survive.
Anne was unable to understand what she 8. She was lovable of every teacher
could write in the essay. She started writing except Mr Keesing who taught Maths.
to consider it the necessity. She wrote the 9. Mr Kessing got annoyed with her
three pages for her satisfaction. She defined talkative nature. ’
it as a feature of a student and also 10. He punished her by giving her extra
mentioned that she inherited this trait from homework many a time.
her mother who also used to talk much. 11. Her essay in verse form on topic
‘Quack’ Quack, Quack, said Mistress
Homework given as Punishment Again Chatterbox humiliated Mr Kessing.
Mr Keesing read Annes’ essay in front of 12. He allowed her to talk and relieved
class and laughed at it. He gave her another her from any extra home work.
essay as a punishment on the topic ‘An
Incorrigible Chatterbox’ and Quack, Quack,
Quack, said Mistress Chatterbox’.
Anne Mocks Mr Keesing Amusingly with

her Homework
Anne wanted to write something interesting
and different this time. So, with the help of
her friend Sanne who was good at poetry,
she wrote an essay in verse. It was about
three duckling going deaf because their
father duck beat them as they quack way
too much. Mr Keesing took the joke in the
right way and didn’t bother Anne for talking
after that incident. She was not even given
any extra homework after that.
Chapter Highlights:-
1. Anne Frank lived in Holland after

Hitler invaded.
2. His father and mother left her and
her sister to her Grandma.
3. She was gifted a diary on her
thirteenth birthday.
4. She named it ‘Kitty’ and made it her
best friend in her loneliness.
5. She wrote every problem and
happenings in her diary.
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than people. Secondly, she thought that

Anne Frank= The 13 years old Jewish girl Anne’s Schooling

Anne Mocks Mr Keesing Amusingly with

1. Anne Frank lived in Holland after

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