Question

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

Answer 1

Hint: The given question is taken from The Chapter “From the Diary of Anne Frank”. It is an autobiography of a young Jewish girl who wrote her thoughts in a diary. She treated it as her best friend and named the diary Kitty.

Complete answer:
In the beginning, she felt that it was an abnormal experience for her to pen down all her thoughts in a diary. Also, she thought that none in the near future would be interested to read about a young girl’s past experiences from her diary. But still, she decided to write her thoughts in her diary and named it “Kitty”. She esteemed her diary to be her true and loyal friend because she was alone and had no friends. Anne felt that her diary had more capacity to absorb her thoughts than people with low patience levels.

The above statement means that Anne, unlike other people, does not like to jot down everything in her diary but she wants the diary to be like her best friend and wants to tell everything to the diary. Also, she didn’t just want to follow what others did. Though she had never written anything yet, she thought to write her feelings and get a lot of memories off her chest and also treat her diary as a true friend.

Note: As Anne had no friends to share her feelings with, she decided to write her thoughts in the diary. She also mentioned how much she loved her family, especially her affectionate father who gave her the diary on her thirteenth birthday.