Question

2. Anne says teachers are the ‘most unpredictable creatures on Earth’. Is Mr. Keesing unpredictable? How?

Answer 1

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• "From the diary of Anne Frank" tells the story of Anne Frank from her school days.

• The chapter being and extract from the book focuses more on the innocent and cheerful time of her.

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• Anne mentions that most teachers are unpredictable a table and this is rightly applicable to Mr. Keesing.

• He is annoyed with Anne for talking too much in the class.

• After several warnings he assigned her extra homework as punishment.

• The extra homework was to write an essay on "A Chatterbox".

• Anne understood that he was trying to make his point by giving her that particular topic.

• But rather than rambling on for pages she wrote a convincing argument in favour of talking.

• To her amusement Mr Keesing took essay in good spirit and had a good laugh over it.

• However, she continued to talk, he assigned her a second essay in the next class and third in the third class.

• Mr Keesing had enough of her and Anne too had enough of writing these essays.

• So, this time she decided to write her essay in verse.

• She took help from her friend and wrote a light-hearted verse.

• Luckily, Mr Keesing understood her joke and enjoyed the poem.

• He liked it so much that you read the poem to their class and to several other classes as well.

• Since then she was never punished for talking in class.

Answer 2

Explanation:

However, she also felt that teachers were the most unpredictable creatures on earth. Mr Keesing could be termed as unpredictable. The way Anne always talked while the class was going on, any teacher would lose his temper. However, after several warnings, all Mr Keesing did was to assign her extra homework.