Question

Part A

In the diary entry from Saturday, June 20, 1942, in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne writes that "paper is more patient than man"

Which sentence best analyzes the meaning of her statement?

First: Anne wants to confide in other people, but she finds people less accepting than a page in her diary.

Second: Anne doesn't want to confide in her diary, but she feels she can't confide in people because they are impatient.

Third: Anne likes confiding in her diary, but she prefers confiding in her friends.

Fourth: Anne doesn't want to confide in her friends because she thinks they don't have time to listen to her.

Part B

Which except best supports the answer in Part A?

First: "I don't want to set down a series of bald facts in a diary like most people do . . ."

Second: "And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting this diary: it is that I have no such real friend . . . I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty."

Third: "No one will grasp what i'm talking about if I begin my letters to Kitty just out of the blue, so albeit unwillingly, I will start by sketching in brief the story of my life."

Fourth: "But it's the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more."

Answer 1

Part B

Which excerpt BEST supports the answer in Part A?

Answer: "Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl."

Explanation: Anne believes that her journal is less judgmental than a human confidant. "It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I—nor anyone else—will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl."

Answer 2

Part A: is the first one which is - Anne wants to confide in other people, but she finds people less accepting than a page in her diary.

Part B: is the second one which is: "And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting this diary: it is that I have no such real friend . . . I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty."