How To Write An Essay On Betty Hillesum's Diary For My Seminar Class

First, I'm a sentimental person. I can control my emotions when seeing the birth or the death in the hospital. Moreover, the seasons change every day, which just likes flowers blossom and wither alternately. It can also cause me to have a sigh. Therefore, writing is a good way which helps me express my own feelings.

Writing became a way for me to express other feelings throughout my young years, but I always ended up writing in notebooks about how I was lonely and felt that I was the source of everything wrong in my life.

When people have negative experiences in life, many need to express their feelings about them. Some may choose writing as their outlet of choice. One writer who expressed their feelings about certain subjects in their life through writing was Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allen Poe’s life was dark and he chose to write about his problems and sorrows through short stories and poems. Edgar Allen Poe’s stories relate to his life and include the themes of madness and paranoia, revenge, and alcohol abuse.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s the world experienced very traumatic events. Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany. He banned all political parties, except the Nazis. Two of the families that were affected by his changes were the Franks and the Van Daans. Anne Frank was a member of the Frank family. Her family and the Van Daans experienced what was happening personally. During the time that she was forced to go into hiding, she kept a diary with her. The diary has become very important item for learning about the events that happened. Historical events are reflected in the play “The Diary of Anne Frank” by showing how what’s happening in the outside world affects the families that have had to go into hiding.

Writing may be an enthralling experience for one and a clever way to decompress for another. In general, however, writing has different purposes for a variety of people. “Why I Write,” written in the late 20th century by Terry Tempest Williams, describes various reasons for writing narrated from a female’s perspective. The short essay begins in the middle of the night with a woman engulfed in her own thoughts. She abruptly goes forth by reciting the multiple reasons why she continues to write in her life. Through a variety of rhetorical devices such as repetition, imagery, analogies, and symbolism, Terry Tempest Williams produces an elegant piece of writing that offers the audience insight into the narrator’s life and forces the audience to have empathy for the narrator with the situation she is incurring.

I filled the time thinking. I never felt I could afford to spend time to sit and write. It didn’t come easy. At first I wrote letters home, but as I spent more time alone in my bunk, memories started to flow, and as the memories flowed, so did the pain associated with those memories. I realized I had been stuffing all that pain. Maybe that’s what people mean when they say writing is cathartic. I thought I was over my dad’s death, until forty years later I wrote about it for the first time. Losing a loved one is something you never get

When I read this book, I felt a familiar bond to Mattie, the main character, as she loves writing and so do I. She says in the book, as she is deliberating over buying an expensive composition book, “I had more ideas. Tons of them. For stories and poems. I chewed the inside of my cheek, deliberating. I knew I would have to write a lot when I went to Barnard --- if I went to Barnard—and it might be a good idea to get a head start.” I also have kept a journal, and have written stories in it. Having a journal has helped organized my thoughts and produce a good, quality piece of work. In Mattie’s case, having a journal helped her get into college, when her teacher Miss Wilcox reads her work and pushes for her to go to college. So having a journal

Why does someone write? What makes authors that we enjoy to read, feel inspired to sit in a deep, state of self-reflection. As they ignore others around them, and focus on their own imaginations in monomaniac fashion ? Margaret Atwood’s “ Nine Beginnings,” attempts to answer the broad question of, “ Why do you write?” This is an essay where the author is having a conversation with herself and contemplating her thoughts about writing. Atwood acknowledges that writing is a process that is never ending, and a person needs self-confidence of their ability to write, in order to be a proficient writer. Margaret Atwood also believes that multiple accounts of failure are important for any writer. A person learns from their mistakes and the writer’s voice comes out more authentic to who the person is due to adversity.

The quote that I most closely identify with is, “A writer is motivated by need—the need to express himself/herself. To put it another way, writers write because they simply have to write. It is their way of dealing with their emotions, with their understandings, with their lives. When poet Alden Nowlan was once asked, “Why do you write?” he answered, “What else would I do?” For me, writing is a never-ending journey of self-discovery. I could no more give up writing than give up breathing. It is as much a part of me as my skin.” –Glen Sorestad. I identify most with this quote because as a writer, you feel the need to express yourself/thoughts on paper to create an incredible novel, poem, short story, etc. You can let all your emotions flow

“Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.” -Natalie Goldberg. As a writer, that’s one of the most relatable quotes I’ve come across. I tell my stories through someone else. My hopes, fears, past, and unrealistic dreams. I adore writing from past experiences and adventures I wish were real. I use to bottle things up. Then I discovered writing as a solution to express what’s rushing through my mind. Being bold with each word I peak onto the page. Writing has even guided me to becoming more outspoken. However I used to be even more timid than I am today.

In her diary journal* Dear Kitty, I remember when we got into this hiding place, to get away from the Nazi’s a few years ago. I love this diary because I received it for my thirteenth birthday two years ago, and it is precious as I can write to you! I feel a little sick, I think it might be a mild case of typhus, but I will get through this! I want to go see Margot writing in her journal! Love, Anne Frank! *Her thoughts* My family and I are very scared of this horror, that our fellow Jews have faced. We are just innocent people, living in an attic behind my dad’s business, and I call it the Secret Annex! I’m afraid of the gestapo, discovering Jews, but I’m sure my family won’t get caught. All 8 members in my family fit into one attic, with

In “The Diary of Anne Frank,” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, explains flashbacks of a young girl and her family being forced into hiding from the Nazis. The main character in the story is a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank, who writes in a diary as she goes through changes in her life because of the Holocaust, and she also wrote about her family's life, things she misses the most, and the least. The authors may have wrote this story that explains very important, scary, and tough times in Anne’s ,her family, and friends life, how the Franks kept in hiding for two years with eight people all together, and the event of Anne, the rest of her family, and her friends were taken in the concentration camp on August 4, 1944.

Pg 1: Once upon a time there was a cow named Betty. Betty was in the 4 grade, she had long black hair, brown eyes, and she would always wear a blue t-shirt with black jeans and red shoes. She loved to dance, but she’s very shy and self-conscious. She attends Christopher Marsh Middle school, where every day at lunch she would go to the auditorium and practice new dance routines she creates.

Writing can help with your emotional troubles in more ways than I can articulate. There have been times in my life when I have experienced the worst hardships, and yet in some way, the act of writing helped make me feel better and even more well adjusted as a person.

I am sure that almost everyone at some point in time has received the following advice when feeling down: "Why don’t you write out your thoughts?", "Write a song or a poem.", "Write a letter to a friend, telling what you feel." In effect, ‘write’! Writing is therapeutic. It’s a fact of life that everyone has experienced. Every author, poet, songwriter, speaker we know has written for one simple reason, they need to.