Lesson 3 "From The Diary of a Young Girl" JKBOSE Class 10 Tulip Series Full Explanation, Summary in English and Hindi, Difficult Words
By MEENA CHOUDHARY
Class 10 From The Diary of a Young Girl Chapter Introduction
From The Diary of a Young Girl Class 10 English Lesson 3 - Detailed explanation of the lesson in both English along with meanings of difficult words. Also, the explanation is followed by a Summary of the lesson. All the exercises and Important Question and Answers are given at the back of the lesson have been covered.
Class 10 English Chapter 5 - From The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank
Introduction to the lesson
From The Diary Of A Young is an extract from Anne Frank’s Diary. Anne Frank is a sweet and young Jewish girl who lives in Amsterdam with her family. She was given a diary on her thirteenth birthday which she finds a very useful gift and in which she chronicles all the important events of her life from 12 June 1942 to 1 August 1944.
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About the Author
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
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Main Attractions of The Lessons
The diary captures a close examination of daily life under Nazi occupation. It has been originally written in Dutch. It becomes one of the world’s widely read books.
In the diary, Anne Frank also provides us with a brief sketch of her life and her emotional attachment with her grandmother.
The most interesting thing that Anne Frank writes about in the diary is that she presents a scenario of the classroom in which Mr Keesing, Maths teacher, is always annoyed with her because she talks too much and as a punishment, he assigns her extra homework. He tells her to write an essay on “A Chatterbox’ and on other subjects like it. She, however, very smartly justifies in her written essay for being a chatterbox that makes Mr Keesing allow Anne to talk in the class at the end.
Anne thinks that it is an odd experience for someone like her to keep a diary because according to her nobody will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. However, she rethinks that she shall not bother if someone likes her ideas or not. She feels like writing and she shall pour out all the things buried inside her heart.
Now, Anne quotes the saying that ” paper is more patient than man”. Perhaps she is in search of a true friend with who she can express all the feelings and worries of her life. Finally, she finds a friend and calls it Kitty. It is not a human but her diary in which she openly pours out her most intimate feelings.
In the next paragraph, Anne elaborates the reason why she writes in the diary in spite of her odd feeling about it. She tells that nobody can believe that a girl of thirteen feels herself alone and truly she is not as she has darling parents and a loving sister of sixteen. On the surface, she has everything, a beautiful family, loving aunts and a good home. But she is not able to get closer to her relations to the extent she desires and that is the root cause of why she starts writing a diary. It is that she has no real friend.
Anne says that in order to improve in her mind the picture of her friend for whom she waited for a long time, she does not put down the facts as the most people do, but she wants the diary to be her friend and she calls this friend Kitty.
Now in the next section, Anne Frank provides a brief sketch of her life. She says that she has the respectable father Otto Frank and a mother Edith Hollander Frank. She also has a loving sister Margot who was born in Frankfurt in Germany in 1926 and herself was born on 12 June 1929. All of her parents migrated to Holland in 1933 and Anne and her sister first go to Aachen to stay with their dearest grandmother then after some time they also go to Holland.
About education, Anne writes that she starts learning at the Montessori nursery school where Mrs Kuperus is her teacher.
In 1941, Anne’s Grandma falls ill and she dies in January 1942. Anne expresses that only she herself knows how much she misses her grandmother. She still loves her even after her death.
Anne further talks about her classroom situation. She tells Kitty that their entire class is trembling with fear for the simple reason that their exams are coming very soon. The half of the students are making bets with one another telling, ” You’re going to pass ” No I am not “. Anne says that she is not sure who can pass because according to her the teachers are the most unpredictable living beings on the earth.
Proceeding forward, Anne says that she has nine teachers seven of them are male and two are female. She is going fine with all teachers except Mr Keesing who is always annoyed with her because she is too much talkative. Mr Keesing warns her several times to control her talkative behaviour but fails. At last, he assigns her extra homework several times. At the first time, he tells her to write an essay on the topic, A Chatterbox”.After pondering enough, Anne succeeds in writing three pages on the subject in which justifies that talking is a student’s trait. She further writes that she will try her best to control the behaviour but one is helpless to do anything with inherited traits. Mr Keesing has a good laugh at her argument.
When Anne proceeds to talk in her manner she is assigned the second essay. This time the subject of the essay is ‘ An incorrigible Chatterbox’.This time too Anne is able to write a good essay on the subject. This makes Mr Keesing keep calm for two whole periods.
Note: Incorrigible means that thing or person which / who cannot be corrected.
But during the third period, Mr Keesing gets angry once again and assigns Anne one more essay entitled ‘Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterbox’.The entire class roared because they feel the subject as it is ridiculous.
Anne this time takes it a challenge. She thinks that this time she must come up with something different and original.
Anne tells that she feels excited when her friend Sanne who is good at poetry offers to help her in writing the essay in verse. Ultimately, they come up with a beautiful poem. The poem is about a mother duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings that are bitten to death by the father because they quacked too much. When Mr Keesing reads the poem, he takes the joke in a positive manner. He recites the poem to several class and even adds his own comments. Now Anne is not assigned any extra homework and Mr Keesing is also happy telling jokes these days.
Sum Up:
1. Anne thinks that neither she neither any other person will be interested in the thoughts and feelings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
2. But she wants to write and reveal the things lying buried in her heart, that is her innermost feelings.
3. She wants to allow only a real friend of hers to see her diary but she has no such friend.
4. Her relations and common friends are interested only in fun and games and she can not talk to them about anything outside the everyday routine and ordinary things.
5. She is unable to get close to her friends and relatives.
6. She wants diary to be her real friend.
7. She calls it Kitty.
2. But she wants to write and reveal the things lying buried in her heart, that is her innermost feelings.
3. She wants to allow only a real friend of hers to see her diary but she has no such friend.
4. Her relations and common friends are interested only in fun and games and she can not talk to them about anything outside the everyday routine and ordinary things.
5. She is unable to get close to her friends and relatives.
6. She wants diary to be her real friend.
7. She calls it Kitty.
Difficult Words
Musings- a period of reflection or thought.
Depressed-(of a person) in a state of unhappiness or despondency.
Brooding-engaged in or showing deep thought about something that makes one sad, angry, or worried.
Stiff-backed- having a stiff back
Prompted-an action or feeling
Plunge-push or thrust quickly.
Adorable-inspiring great affection or delight.
Emigrate-to move from one place to another.
Quaking- shake or shudder with fear.
Stake- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant.
Outbursts -a sudden release of strong emotion.
Unpredictable- not able to be predicted; changeable.
Fogey- a very old-fashioned or conservative person.
Chatterbox- a person who likes to chatter.
Incorrigible-of a person or their behavior not able to be changed or reformed.
Exhausted-very tired.
TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS
1. Was Anne right when She said that the world would not be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old girl?
Ans. Anne has been proved very wrong because her diary became one of the most widely read books of the world and it has been translated into many other languages. In other words, the world was wonderstruck over her musings.
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Ans: No she was not right when she said that the world would not be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old girl. She wrote the diary which was published under the name “The diary of a Young girl”. The diary was originally written in Dutch language and was translated into many world languages. It became one of the world’s most widely read and famous books. There are also several films and television productions based on the dairy. It is considered therefore as the work of a mature and insightful mind.
2. In which language was The Diary Of Anne Frank originally written?
Ans. The diary was originally written in the Dutch language. Subsequently, it was translated into many other languages of the world.
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Ans: Anne’s diary was originally written in Dutch.
In her first essay, Anne writes that talking is a student’s trait and justified her talkativeness by explaining that it was in her genes because her mother was also talkative.
3. Why does Anne need to give a brief sketch about her family? Does she treat Kitty as an insider or an outsider?
Ans. Anne thinks that nobody will be able to understand her musings if she goes straight to the topic. That is the reason why she thinks it necessary to give a brief sketch of her family. She does not treat Kitty as an outsider but a very intimate insider with whom she can share her innermost feelings and vicissitudes.
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Ans: Anne gives a brief sketch of her life because no one shall understand the story that she writes on the dairy Kitty. Moreover, a good introduction helps in drawing the reader’s attention to the topic. It gives background information about writing. By providing a brief sketch of her life, Anne gives an overview of her family, her relatives, and her age. This helps the reader to develop a connection with the author. She treats Kitty as an insider because she doesn’t want to jot down the facts the way most people would do, but she wants the dairy to be her friend and is ready to confide in it.
4. How does Anne feel about her father, her grandmother, Mrs Kuperus and Mr Keesing? What do these tell you about her?
Ans. Anne loves all of them except Mr Keesing. She calls her father the most adorable father she has ever seen. She often remembers her grandmother and misses her too much. She owns also an intimate relationship with Mrs Kuperus as they are both in tears when they part each other. So far Mr Keesing is concerned, he always remains annoyed with her because she talks too much. She calls him an old fogey. Ann’s analysis of these characters shows that even at a young age she happens to be a good judge of human character.
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Ans: She feels that her father is the most adorable father she has ever seen. Her statement, no one would understand her intensity of love for her grandma, tells that she loved her grandmother gravely. Moreover, the touching gesture of lighting up one candle for a grandmother on her birthday is also a poignant reminder of the love for grandma. She often misses her grandmother after death.
Mrs Kuperus. the headmistress is also dear to Anne. Both Anne and Mrs Kuperus were in tears when they departed from each other at the end of the year with a heartbreaking farewell.
Mr Keesing is her Maths teacher whom she calls an old fogey person. Anne was fond of talking too much. It can be assumed that like all strict teachers Mr Keesing thought talkativeness as a distraction for study and was annoyed with Anne. He punished her to write an essay on ’chatterbox’, the person who talks much.
5. What does Anne write in her first essay?
Ans. In her first essay, Anne writes that talking is a student’s trait. She also writes that she will try to keep it under control but she can’t do so because her mother also talked as much as she does. She means to say that talking is her inherited trait and it is not much you can do about inherited traits.
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Ans: In her first essay, titled ‘A Chatterbox’, Anne wants to come up with convincing arguments to justify the necessity of talking. She writes that talking is student’s trait and would never be able to cure herself of the habit since her mother talks as much as She does. She argues that it is not easy for a person to leave inherited traits.
6. Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr Keesing unpredictable? How?
Ans. Anne says teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on the earth. Mr Keesing proves to be very unpredictable. He seems to be a strict disciplinarian at first. But when Anne comes out with the unbeatable argument in the essays assigned to her by him as a punishment for talking in the class. Mr Keesing changes his attitude towards her. He now allows her to talk in the class.
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Ans: Mr Keesing, the Maths teacher assigns Anne to write some essays as a punishment for her being talkative throughout lessons. She is asked to write an essay on A chatterbox’. This way he tries to play a joke on her but when she writes her last essay in verse form Mr Keesing Is impressed by her talent that he likes the essay and reads it to the whole class. Finally, he allows her to
talk in the class and does not assign any extra homework. This is how Mr Keesing behaves in an unpredictable way.
talk in the class and does not assign any extra homework. This is how Mr Keesing behaves in an unpredictable way.
Questions asked in board examination
1. What tells you that Anne loved her grandmother?
Answer: Her statement, that no one could understand her intensity of love for her grandma tells that she loved her grandmother deeply. Moreover, the touching gesture of lighting up one candle for grandmother during Anne’s birthday is also a poignant reminder of the love for grandma.
2. Why was Mr Keesing annoyed with Anne? What did he ask her to do?
Answer: Anne was fond of talking too much. It can be assumed that like all strict teachers Mr. Keesing thought talkativeness as distraction for study. So he was annoyed with Anne. He asked Anne to write an essay on ‘chatterbox’, the person who talks too much.
3. How did Anne justify her being a chatterbox in her essay?
Answer: In her first essay Anne justified her talkativeness by explaining that it was in her genes, because her mother was also talkative.
Although detail about second essay is not given but it can be assumed that it was a good essay, because Mr. Keesing didn’t complain about Anne’s habit for a long time. In the last essay Anne made a humorous poem about a father duck and his ducklings. That essay amused and pleased Mr. Keesing so much that he stopped rebuking Anne for her talkativeness.
4. Do you think Mr Keesing was a strict teacher?
Answer: Whatever actions a teacher takes, that is done in good intention. Teachers always think about knowledge development of child. It is the differences in perspective of students vis-Ã -vis that of teachers which creates an image of a strict teacher.
Mr. Keesing was also trying to control a supposedly bad habit of Anne. When he was convinced that Anne was good at writing and her talkativeness was not coming in the way of her studies then he started behaving properly with Anne.
5. What made Mr Keesing allow Anne to talk in class?
Answer: Anne’s last essay was like an anecdote. This helped Mr. Keesing to see the lighter side of a natural bubbly behavior of a teenager. This helped bridge the generation gap between the teacher and the student.
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