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NCERT Solutions Class 10, English, First Flight, Prose, Chapter- 4, From the Diary of Anne Frank.

Activity

1. Do you keep a diary? Given below under ‘A’ are some terms we use to describe a written record of personal experience. Can you match them with their descriptions under ‘B’? (You may look up the terms in a dictionary if you wish.)

A	B
(i) Journal	A book with a separate space or page for each day, in which you write down your thoughts and feelings or what has happened on that day
(ii) Diary	A full record of a journey, a period of time, or an event, written every day
(iii) Log	A record of a person’s own life and experiences (usually, a famous person)
(iv) Memoir(s)	A written record of events with times and dates, usually official

Solution:

A	B
(i) Journal	A full record of a journey, a period of time, or an event, written every day
(ii) Diary	A book with a separate space or page for each day, in which you write down your thoughts and feelings or what has happened on that day
(iii) Log	A written record of events with times and dates, usually official
(iv) Memoir(s)	A record of a person’s own life and experiences (usually, a famous person)

2. Here are some entries from personal records. Use the definitions above to decide which of the entries might be from a diary, a journal, a log or a memoir.

(i) I woke up very late today and promptly got a scolding from Mum! I can’t help it — how can I miss the FIFA World Cup matches?

Solution: Diary

(ii) 10:30 a.m.      Went to the office of the Director
01:00 p.m.           Had lunch with Chairman
05:45 p.m.           Received Rahul at the airport
09:30 p.m.           Dinner at home

Solution: Log 

(iii) The ride to Ooty was uneventful. We rested for a while every 50 km or so, and used the time to capture the magnificent landscape with my HandyCam. From Ooty we went on to Bangalore.

What a contrast! The noise and pollution of this once-beautiful city really broke my heart.

Solution: Journal

(iv) This is how Raj Kapoor found me — all wet and ragged outside R.K.Studios. He was then looking for just someone like this for a small role in Mera Naam Joker, and he cast me on the spot. The rest, as they say, is history!

Solution: Memoir

Oral Comprehension Check

1. What makes writing in a diary a strange experience for Anne Frank?

Solution:

Writing in a diary was a strange experience for Anne Frank as she never had a diary and it was a gift on her 13th birthday. She considered it her best friend on which she relied the most and with whom she shared all her ups and downs.

2. Why does Anne want to keep a diary?

Solution:

Anne always feels lonely and distressed so to get off all the burden and pain she wants to keep a diary in which she finds a true friend as she has hardly any friends whom she could confide in.

3. Why did Anne think she could confide more in her diary than in people?

Solution:

Anne felt that paper had more patience than people to listen to her plight. So, it was easier for her to write all kind of thoughts which she had in her mind. Her personal diary was not meant for any one else to read.

Oral Comprehension Check

1. Why does Anne provide a brief sketch of her life?

Solution:

By providing the brief sketch of her life, Anne wants to give an overview of her family, relatives and her age. This helps the reader to develop a connection with the author.

2. What tells you that Anne loved her grandmother?

Solution:

Anne lived with her grandmother for sometime while her parents setded down in Holland. She was very close to her Grandmother. She writes in her diary . “No one knows how often I think of her and still love her”. On her 13th birthday by lightening up one candle for Grandmother she shows her love for her.

Oral Comprehension Check

1. Why was Mr Keesing annoyed with Anne? What did he ask her to do?

Solution:

Mr Keesing was annoyed with Anne because she was very talkative. He punished her by giving her extra homework to write essays to keep her silent and the topics always related to her nature.

2. How did Anne justify her being a chatterbox in her essay?

Solution:

Anne justified her being a chatterbox in her essay by explaining that it is due to her mother who was also very talkative and nobody could do anything about their inherited traits.

3. Do you think Mr Keesing was a strict teacher?

Solution:

No, Mr Keesing was not a bad or strict teacher because a teacher did something for the welfare of his students. Any teacher would be annoyed if children keep on talking in the class. Secondly, if he had been strict he would not have laughed at Anne’s funny arguments.

4. What made Mr Keesing allow Anne to talk in class?

Solution:

Anne’s last essay in the form of a poem showed Mr Keesing the lighter side of a naughty child. It helped bridge the generation gap between the teacher and the student.

Answer 2

Thinking about the Text 

1. Was Anne right when she said that the world would not be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old girl?

Solution:

No, Anne was not right when she said that the world would not be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old girl.

2. There are some examples of diary or journal entries in the ‘Before You Read’ section. Compare these with what Anne writes in her diary. What language was the diary originally written in? In what way is Anne’s diary different?

Solution:

Anne’s diary was entirely different from most of the examples given before the text. It was somewhere closer to the memoir in which the name of Raj Kapoor has been mentioned. It was originally written in Dutch. It has informal tone which exudes the careful nature of a teenager.

3. Why does Anne need to give a brief sketch about her family? Does she treat ‘Kitty’ as an insider or an outsider?

Solution:

Anne Frank claims that paper has more patience than people. She usually sits depressed and all alone .She claims of having no real friend .This lends the reader the perception that there isn’t any body to take care of Anne Frank. To clear the clouds of doubt , Anne Frank gives the sketch of her adorable father, compassionate mother, kind grandmother, and loving sister.
She treated Kitty as an insider because she called it her best friend and was 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?

Solution:

Anne has fond of memories of her father, grandmother, Mrs Kuperus and Mr Keesing, who have left indelible impressions on her mind and affected her life a lot. The way she represents all of them in her diary reveals that Anne was very good at understanding people and at developing interpersonal relations.

5. What does Anne write in her first essay?

Solution:

Mr Keesing asked her to write an essay on the topic ‘A Chatterbox’ as punishment. In the essay : she accepted the drawbacks of being talkative but argued that it was in her genes as her mother was also very talkative. It was difficult to give up the habit and it was also a student’s trait. Even Mr Keesing laughed at the argument she had given.

 6. Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr Keesing unpredictable? How?

Solution:

Anne took perfect example of Mr Keesing as an unpredictable teacher because Mr Keesing seemed to be indifferent towards Annes’ behaviour. Earlier he laughed but later he allowed Anne to talk in the class post reading her essays.

7. What do these statements tell you about Anne Frank as a person?

(i) We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem. Maybe it’s my fault that we don’t confide in each other.

Solution: Anne is reserved.

(ii) I don’t want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would, but I want the diary to be my friend.

Solution: She is self-confident and inventive.

(iii) Margot went to Holland in December, and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot.

Solution: She is humorous as well.

(iv) If you ask me, there are so many dummies that about a quarter of the class should be kept back, but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth.

Solution: Anne is intelligent.

(v) Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking.

Solution: She has a sense of propriety and convincing attitude.

Thinking about Language

I. Match the compound words under ‘A’ with their meanings under ‘B’. Use each in a sentence.

A	B
1. Heartbreaking	obeying and respecting the law
2. Homesick	think about pleasant things, forgetting about the present
3. Blockhead	something produced by a person, machine or organisation
4. Law-abiding	producing great sadness
5. Overdo	an occasion when vehicles/machines stop working
6. Daydream	an informal word which means a very stupid person
7. Breakdown	missing home and family very much
8. Output	do something to an excessive degree

Solution:

A	B
1. Heartbreaking	producing great sadness
2. Homesick	missing home and family very much
3. Blockhead	an informal word which means a very stupid person
4. Law-abiding	obeying and respecting the law
5. Overdo	do something to an excessive degree
6. Daydream	think about pleasant things, forgetting about the present
7. Breakdown	an occasion when vehicles/machines stop working
8. Output	something produced by a person, machine or organisation

Answer 3

II. Phrasal Verbs

2. Now find the sentences in the lesson that have the phrasal verbs given below. Match them with their meanings. (You have already found out the meanings of some of them.) Are their meanings the same as that of their parts? (Note that two parts of a phrasal verb may occur separated in the text.)

A	B
(i) plunge in	– speak or write without focus
(ii) kept back	– stay indoors
(iii) move up	– make (them) remain quiet
(iv) ramble on	– have a good relationship with
(v) get along with	– give an assignment (homework) to a person in authority (the teacher)
(vi) calm down	– compensate
(vii) stay in	– go straight to the topic
(viii) make up for	– go to the next grade
(ix) hand in	– not promoted

 Solution:

(i) plunge in − go straight to the topic

Since no one would understand a word of my stories to Kitty if I were to plunge right in, I’d better provide a brief sketch of my life, much as I dislike doing so.

(ii) kept back − not promoted

The reason, of course, is the forthcoming meeting in which the teachers decide who’ll move up to the next form and who’ll be kept back.

(iii) move up − go to the next grade

The reason, of course, is the forthcoming meeting in which the teachers decide who’ll move up to the next form and who’ll be kept back.

(iv) ramble on − speak or write without focus

Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking.

(v) get along with − have a good relationship with I get along pretty well with all my teachers.

(vi) calm down − make (them) remain quite

Even G.’s pleading advances and my angry outbursts can’t calm them down.

(vii) stay in − stay indoors

I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out.

(viii) make up for − compensate

This birthday celebration in 1942 was intended to make up for the other.

(ix) hand in − give an assignment (homework) to a person in authority (the teacher)

I handed it in, and Mr Keesing had nothing to complain about for two whole lessons.

III. Idioms

1. Here are a few sentences from the text which have idiomatic expressions. Can you say what each means? (You might want to consult a dictionary first.)

(i) Our entire class is quaking in its boots. _________
(ii) Until then, we keep telling each other not to lose heart. _______
(iii) Mr Keeping was annoyed with me for ages because I talked so much.______
(iv) Mr Keeping was trying to play a joke on me with this ridiculous subject, but I’d make sure the joke was on him._____.

Solution:

(i) Our entire class is quaking in its boots. Shaking with fear and nervousness

(ii) Until then, we keep telling each other not to lose heart. Not to lose hope

(iii) Mr. Keeping was annoyed with me for ages because I talked so much. Since a long time

(iv) Mr. Keeping was trying to play a joke on me with this ridiculous subject, but I’d make sure the joke was on him. He was outwitted by her

2. Here are a few more idiomatic expressions that occur in the text. Try to use them in sentences of your own.

(i) caught my eye 

Solution: A small red car passing by caught my eye.

(ii) he’d had enough

Solution: Tom had a hard time raising enough money build the orphanage he'd promised to build.

(iii) laugh ourselves silly

Solution: One girl said something funny, and we laughed ourselves silly.

(iv) can’t bring myself to

Solution: I can’t bring myself to eat anything but chocolates.

IV You have read the expression ‘not to lose heart’ in this text. Now find out the meanings of the following expressions using the word ‘heart’.Use each of them in a sentence of your own.

1. break somebody’s heart

Solution: to upset somebody deeply
It has unfortunately become very easy these days to break somebody’s heart.

2. close/dear to heart

Solution: something or someone who is near and close to you
The drawing given to me by my little daughter is very close to my heart.

3. from the (bottom of your) heart

Solution: genuinely meaning or feeling something
He loved his son from the bottom of his heart.

4. have a heart

Solution: to evoke the feeling to help someone in distress
The poor beggar asked the rich man to have a heart and give him something to eat.

5. have a heart of stone

Solution: to not feel anything or any sentiment
The cruel landlady has a heart of stone as she beats up her children.

6. your heart goes out to somebody

Solution: to sympathise with someone else and understand his feelings and distress
My heart goes out to the little girl who lost both her parents in a car accident.

V. Contracted Forms

1. Make a list of the contracted forms in the text. Rewrite them as full forms of two words.

For example: I’ve = I have

Solution:

(i) I’ve − I have
(ii) Doesn’t − does not
(iii) Won’t − would not
(iv) I’m − I am
(v) Don’t − do not
(vi) Can’t − cannot
(vii) it’s − it is
(viii) That’s − that is
(ix) I’d − I would
(x) Didn’t − did not
(xi) Who’ll − who will
(xii) You’re − You are
(xiii) We’ll − We will
(xiv) There’s − there is
(xv) He’d − he had
(xvi) Who’s − who is
(xvii) Haven’t − have not

2. We have seen that some contracted forms can stand for two different full forms: I’d = I had or I would Find in the text the contracted forms that stand for two different full forms, and say what these are.

Solution:

(i) I’d − I had or I would
(ii) He’d − He had or he would