MG #4 - Diary/Journal Entry

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"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 for the matter of anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart."

-Anne Frank

If you haven't already guessed, the genre we will be focusing on today is a diary or journal entry. What's the point in keeping a diary, you might ask? A diary entry is one of the most personal forms of writing simply due to the fact that the writer believes that his/her eyes will be the only ones to ever gaze upon the page. A diary is a place where one can disclose innermost thoughts - the reality, the raw nature, of one's life.

Anne Frank had thought this, but when her diary was discovered, a piece of history and a piece of a human heart were also discovered. Frank's diary has become one of the most famous pieces of literature in all history, and all because a little girl got a blank book as a gift. Her diary is history, thoughts, and emotions frozen in time.

For this piece, I want you to think about how you could incorporate a diary entry into your multi-genre project.  You could even use it for repetend, so think of a good place for a diary/journal entry to write for your piece, and expose whatever raw thoughts and emotions you or your character may have.