(ii) Mr. Keesing was trying to play a joke on me with this ridiculous subject, but I’d make sure the joke was on him. (a)Why does the narrator feel that Mr. Keesing was trying to play a joke on her? (b) How does Mr. Keesing try to play a joke on her? c)How did ‘I’ ensure that the joke was on Mr. Keesing? FROM THE CHAPTER THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Answers
(a) Why does the narrator feel that Mr. Keesing was trying to play a joke on her?
Ans: Mr. Keesing was trying to play a joke on Anne because he wanted to punish her for being so talkative in the class.
(b) How does Mr. Keesing try to play a joke on her?
Ans: Mr. Keesing tried to play a joke on her by calling Anne 'an incorrigible chatterbox'; and then by giving her an assignment to write an essay on ‘A Chatterbox’.
c) How did ‘I’ ensure that the joke was on Mr. Keesing?
Ans: In order to punish her he gave her an essay to write entitled — ‘Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterbox’. Anne, with the assistance of her friend, Sanne, who was good at poetry, wrote a poem on the title. It was about a mother duck and a father swan who had three baby ducklings; these babies were bitten to death by the father because they quacked too much. The poem had a deep impact on Mr. Kessing. He was changed. He allowed Anne and other students to talk in the class and never gave any punishment to Anne.