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Unit 4: From The Diary of Anne Frank Gist

Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929 and moved to Holland at age 4 to escape persecution. She received a diary for her 13th birthday, where she expressed her thoughts and feelings. She felt lonely among the 30 people she lived with, as she had no true friends. Anne died in a concentration camp in 1945 at age 15. The poem "Amanda" depicts a girl who feels restricted by her mother's nagging. Amanda escapes into daydreams of being free like a mermaid or living alone in a tower, but is pulled back to reality by her mother's instructions and reprimands.

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Unit 4: From The Diary of Anne Frank Gist

Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929 and moved to Holland at age 4 to escape persecution. She received a diary for her 13th birthday, where she expressed her thoughts and feelings. She felt lonely among the 30 people she lived with, as she had no true friends. Anne died in a concentration camp in 1945 at age 15. The poem "Amanda" depicts a girl who feels restricted by her mother's nagging. Amanda escapes into daydreams of being free like a mermaid or living alone in a tower, but is pulled back to reality by her mother's instructions and reprimands.

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UNIT 4: FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK GIST:

This lesson is an excerpt from “Diary of a Young Girl” or “The Diary of Anne Frank”. It is an
autobiography that was first published in 1947. In this, Anne expresses her thoughts in a diary
which was gifted to her on her thirteenth birthday. She names the diary “kitty” which she
considers as her only true friend. She mentions about her childhood, her family and a lot other
things that she told no one else.

CHARACTER SKETCH OF ANNE FRANK

Anne Frank was born on 12th June 1929 in Frankfurt Germany. She was four years old when
her father went to Holland to find a better place for them to live. She was very intelligent and
always wanted to become a writer. She was a very good reader as well, she continued reading
books, translated chapters, wrote down the vocabulary and worked hard on her skills. Like any
child, she loved her parents but later grew a dislike towards her mother as she compared her to
Margot. She was always jealous of her. She believed that time would come when the problems
would be over. She felt lonely. Though she was amidst thirty people, she could hardly call
anyone as her true friend. Anne died of typhus in the concentration camp at Berger-Belsen in late
February or early March of 1945. Poem: AMANDA!

GIST:

The Poem Amanda by ROBIN KLEIN depicts a child’s feelings about the restrictions the
parents put on him/her. Children feel their parents don’t let them do many things they want to do.
In the poem there is a girl named Amanda who feels her mother nags her too much. The mother
scolds Amanda for biting her nails, hunching her shoulders, and not sitting straight. Amanda
does not like it. On the contrary Amanda lives in her dream world. In her fantasy she feels like a
mermaid swimming freely and joyously in the light green sea. The mother drags Amanda out of
her dream by asking whether she has completed her homework or not. She also asks her whether
she has tidied her room; she tells her to clean and polish her shoes.

Amanda then daydreams of being an orphan roaming freely, barefoot in golden silence enjoying
uninterrupted freedom. The mother instructs Amanda not to eat chocolates because of her acnes
and pimples. She also scolds her for not looking at her when she is talking to her. Amanda is
enjoying another dream; she fantasizes herself as Rapunzel living peacefully in her tower; she
feels she will never let down her hair from the tower.Her mother again reprimands her for
sulking and being moody. And the mother feels others will think that she is always pestering her.

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