Anneliese Marie Anne Frank (12 June 1929 – February/March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote her famous diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. After her family was betrayed and sent to concentration camps, only her father, Otto Frank, survived. He published her diary as The Diary of a Young Girl.
Anne feels that paper has more patience than people. Despite having loving parents, a sister, and about thirty friends, she lacks a true friend to whom she can confide her innermost feelings. She names her diary Kitty to treat it as this long-awaited friend.
Anne provides a brief background: her parents married when her father was 36 and mother 25. Her sister Margot was born in 1926, and Anne in 1929. They emigrated to Holland in 1933. Anne attended the Montessori nursery school. Her grandmother fell ill in 1941 and died in January 1942, leaving a deep impact on Anne.
On 20 June 1942, Anne's class is anxious about who will be promoted. Anne is confident except about maths. Her maths teacher, Mr. Keesing, is annoyed by her constant talking and assigns her extra homework as punishment: essays on chatterboxes.
The poem depicts the tension between a nagging parent and a young girl, Amanda, who escapes into her own vivid imagination to find freedom.