Unit - 07
THE GIRL WHO WAS ANNE FRANK
Louis De Jong
Comprehension
Answer briefly the
following questions.
1) Why does the
Professor say, “I have read Anne Frank’s diary”?
Ans: When an argumentative young student asked
him how he knew that the human race was worth saving. So, the Professor said
that he had read Anne Frank’s diary.
2) What does his
statement imply?
Ans: All
human races merit sparing as each race is valuable.
3) What was Anne’s
father?
Ans: Anne’s father was Otto Frank and he was a
banker.
4) Give any one
example to prove the popularity of Anne Frank’s Diary.
Ans: Anne Frank’s Diary had been published in so
many languages even in German too. Many of them had sent gifts to Anne’s father
after reading that diary. The diary had touched to the hearts of people and was
sold in millions of copies around the world.
5) a) Name the
members of Mr. Otto Frank’s family
Ans: a) Mr. Otto Frank, Mrs. Frank, and his two daughters,
Margot and Anne, and Frank’s mother who was migrated to Switzerland were the
family members of Mr. Otto Frank.
b) What impression
did people have about Anne?
Ans: b) Many people had the feeling that Margot,
Anne's elder sister was all the more encouraging and Anne was not especially a
splendid understudy.
6) Why did Otto Frank
decide to migrate to Netherlands? Give two reasons.
Ans: Adolf Hitler had issued anti-Jewish decree
and Netherlands was safe for his family and for his business. So, Mr. Otto
Frank decided to migrate to Netherlands.
7) Who was Mr. Van
Daan?
Ans: Mr. Van Daan was a fellow refugee and
partner of Mr. Otto Frank.
8) What qualities of
Mr. Frank did his staff admire?
Ans: Mr. Otto Frank's staff respected him for
his warm character. They respected his boldness and the apparent consideration
he took to give his two young daughter proper edification.
9) Paragraph 7 refers
to a lucky fact. What was that lucky fact?
Ans: Franks
lived in a town encompassed by a jabbering horde of sweethearts that fit the
two young ladies and had an upbeat existence.
10) What finally
forced Frank to go into hiding?
Ans: Mr. Otto Frank was forced to into hiding
when Nazis invaded Netherlands and they were trapped. He decided to go into
hiding place with his family members.
11) Where did Otto
Frank and others hide themselves in?
Ans: Mr. Otto Frank chose to cover up in his own
business office with others and his family members. A couple of abandoned rooms
on the upper floors called the "Annexe".
12) In all, how many
people managed to hide in the Annexe? Who were they?
Ans: There were around about eight people
managed to hide in the Annexe. They were Mr. Otto Frank, Mrs. Otto Frank, his
two daughters, Mr. Van Daan’s three family members and a Jewish dentist.
13) What helped the
hiding party to establish contact with the outside world?
Ans: The radio and the four courageous staff
members of Otto Frank had helped the hiding party to establish contact with the
outside world.
14) What did Anne
Frank record in her diary?
Ans: Anne Frank recorded her life in the Annexe
with all its inescapable pressures and fights. She made a magnificent and
sensitive record of puberty with complete trustworthiness of a little
youngster's musings and emotions.
15) How did Anne
compare herself to a song bird?
Ans: Anne contrasted herself with a song bird
whose wings had been severely detached and who was flying in absolute haziness
against the bars of its own pen.
16) What does Anne
reveal about her mother in the diary?
Ans: Anne discloses her anguish since she feels
that her mom doesn't recognize her.
17) How does Anne try
to keep the diary a secret?
Ans: Anne Frank tried to keep the diary as a
secret and she hid it in her father’s brief case so that no one could touch or
read it.
18) Pick out from
paragraph 16 two examples of the inhuman treatment of the Jews by the Nazis.
Ans: Paragraph 16 represents examples of the
inhuman treatment of the Jews by the Nazis such as they were conveyed in cows’
trucks to Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp in Southern Poland. The people
were put in independent camps and tormented so much that the vast majority of
them passed on of weariness.
19) Why does the
writer call Anne a courageous leader?
Ans: There was nothing to eat, Anne used to
strikingly go to the kitchen at the Auschwitz Death camp and asked food. She
used to prompt her sister and others to never surrender. So, the writer called
Anne a courageous leader.
20) Paragraph 18
gives a vivid picture of Anne’s last day in the concentration camp. Pick out
all the details of her pathetic physical state.
Ans: In
the last days of the concentration camp Anne and her sister were shipped to
Belsen, another camp among Berlina and Hamburg. She was aged, starving, her
head bald and her nearly skeleton body wearing the course, impossible to
differentiate, striped attire of the Death camp. Her body racked by typhoid
fever and she was miserably feeble.
21) When and where
did Miep find Anne’s diary?
Ans: Anne’s diary was lying in Annexe, and Miep
found it there when returned after a week.
22) The writer says
that if Miep had read Anne’s diary, she would have destroyed it. Why does the
writer think so?
Ans: According to the writer Miep would have
destroyed Anne’s diary if she read it because Anne had written in a tattered
gritty way about the assistance given by Miep and others to her family at the
danger of their own lives. It was the matter of security to save lives.
23) Why does Mr.
Frank take many weeks to finish reading the diary?
Ans: Mr. Frank took so many weeks to finish reading
the diary because as he read every single page he would broke down and remember
his daughter and her struggles.
24) What became the
mission of Mr. Frank’s life?
Ans: Mr. Frank’s life mission was to take care
of Anne’s diary.
25) How did Mr. Frank
spend the money he got from the publishers?
Ans: The money when Mr. Frank got from the
publishers he spent all on gentle causes.
26) How did the
German audiences respond, to the tragic play of Anne Frank?
Ans: There was silent remorse by the German audience
to the tragic play of Anne Frank.
27) How did “The
Diary of Anne Frank” succeed where German administrators had failed?
Ans: People of German realized the senseless and
criminal nature of the Nazi decree. The Diary of Anne Frank prevailing with
regards to doing what the executives had neglected to do.
28) Why did the
people of Berlin choose her name for Anne Frank Home?
Ans: Anne Frank was symbolized the spirit of
racial and social tolerance. So the people of Berlin chose her name for Anne
Frank Home.
II. Close Study
Read the following
extracts carefully. Discuss in pairs and then write the answers to the
questions given below them.
1) “I have read Anne
Frank’s Diary”
a) Who is the
speaker?
Ans: Professor is the speaker
b) To which question
is this statement an answer?
Ans: “How do you know the human race is worth
saving” said a young student to professor.
c) What does the
speaker imply in this statement?
Ans: The teacher infers that every race is
valuable and it is worth saving.
2) “In spite of
everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart”
a) Whose words are
these?
Ans: These are the words of Anne Frank.
b) What does “everything”
refers to?
Ans: “Everything” refers to the atrocities
committed by the Nazis on the Jews.
c) What quality of
the speaker is revealed here?
Ans: The speaker discusses the nature of
sympathy, love, and pardoning in Anne Frank towards the Germans.
III. Paragraph Writing
Discuss in groups of
4 each and answer the following questions. Individually note down the important
points for each question and then develop the points into one paragraph
answers.
1) How did Anne’s
Diary open the eyes of Germans to the viciousness of racial persecution?
Ans: Anne’s
Diary received a remarkable response from the German audience. Packed audiences
received the tragedy of Anne Frank in silence heavy with remorse. After the
war, it was assessed, of the many Jews extradited from the Netherlands
somewhere only few endure. An expected some Jews stayed in the Netherlands,
with numerous individuals helped by the Dutch underground. Anne's journal gave
them knowledge into a universe of annihilation from the perspective of a
youngster caught in a horrible world. An expression of scorn that ought to have
destroyed her soul, however actually, it did something contrary to Anne and she
clutched her expectation in humankind more emphatically than any time in recent
memory.
2) From your study of
this write- up, what do you understand about Anne Frank’s mind and heart?
Ans: Anne Frank though not very brilliant, took
a remarkable interest in people. She was emotional and strong-willed, a problem
child who a great talker and fond of nice clothes. Anne kept on battling with
the idea concerning how she could be a decent individual when there were
endless hindrances in her reality. She expounded persuasively on her disarray
over her personality. Anne contemplated the idea of war and humankind and about
her function as a youthful Jewish young lady in a difficult world.
3) What glimpses of
Nazi cruelty do you see in this write- up?
Ans: Hitler gave one enemy of Jewish declaration
after another which constrained the Jews to either seek total isolation or move
to different spots. The Jews were moved in steers trucks filled path past
limit. On appearance, the grown-ups were generally taken straightforwardly to
the gas chambers. Anne was fifteen and gotten away from the gas chamber
alongside her mom and sister. In any case, starvation, malady, and typhus
executed them in the holocaust camps. Human pride was stripped in these camps
and consistently was a battle genuinely and inwardly. The Nazis had no sympathy
for ladies and youngsters as well. Ladies and kids were kept in extremely
disgraceful conditions without legitimate food or clothing.
