I believe that you are referring to an excerpt from the Diary of Anne Frank - Anne (As she opens the carton). You know the way I'm going to think of it here? I'm going to think of it as a boardinghouse. A very peculiar summer boardinghouse, like the one that we - (She breaks off as she pulls out some photographs.) Father! My movie stars! I was wondering where they were! I was looking for them this morning . . . and Queen Wilhelmina! How wonderful!
The answer would be the second choice - She uses her imagination to make herself feel better. She uses her imagination as her defense mechanism to forget about her situation.
Eisenhower attempted to stop the spread of communism during the Cold War (this is called containment). The US feared that if one country started toward communism, other would follow suit.
