Diary Entry Essay

soldiers who took her family away. She can’t return to unlock the cupboard, and as a consequence her brother dies there. The key, which starts as a symbol of fear and hope becomes a symbol of loss, pain, despair, and guilt. In one of Sarah’s diary entries, she describes how the pain of her brother death becomes more and more unbearable. She is lost without him and cannot find a way to live with the consequences of her choice. She looks at the key and writes, “Michel. In my dreams, you come and

Diary of Lady Macbeth Entry 1: The Revealing Letter It has been a wonderful day, filled with many surprises and promises of great things to come. The letter which my husband Macbeth wrote to me is very interesting indeed. It has transported me into the future in which I am queen of Scotland and he, my valiant king. I must start formulating a plan to help Macbeth become the king, however he can only become king if he lets go of his honorable nature and accepts that killing is the only way to get

Diary entry number 45, February 9. “I, John, am writing this in from deep space. Me, Michel, and Ralph are here in some kind of mothership. So far, we are fine here in the lower portion of the mothership . Although if we don’t move and get off this ship, I have a feeling that we will be in for a nasty treat. Vanessa is trying to get to us, but I don’t know where or how she is going to get to us. I do not have any ideas on how we are going to get off of this thing in one piece. I feel that most of

Abruptly awaken in the dark in a cold sweat, his maroon reds eyes piecing through the darkness wide open, he unintentionally fell asleep. Distance screams fading in his ears, images of burning buildings, people fleeing in terror in every direction, the smell of fresh blood and sound of clashing swords. A nightmare, something that happens at random after a successful kill. Unsure of why it hunts him so, when he feels no remorse or sorrow for his victims since he had good reason for taking their life

1187, November My men and I have take a vow, that states that any man who goes on a crusade and kills the enemy will receive eternal life in heaven and will be forgiven for their sins. We all acquired a piece of cloth in the shape of a cross that was sown on to the armour. We will set off in 1190, July 4 on our long journey, from Vezelay to our Holy City Jerusalem. I determined an alliance with King Philippe Augustus, we will both be fighting for Christianity. I hired a cartographer, to draw a

King George iii has done it again. On this day, March 22, 1765, the Stamp act has been passed by parliament. The Stamp act puts taxes on documents. The british troops are in debt because of the seven year war, and this is how they are giving money back to the troops. We have been talking about all day in school, but i do not yet know how my family feels about this. I was sure my father was to be angry about it. I was walking home constantly thinking about how my family would feel about, or how the

"Dear diary, the trip here was exciting and we were all looking forward to it with so much anticipation. The conditions on the boat were awful, though. To many of us crammed in a small space. No fresh air, and little to no food or water. But we are here now so our lives should be changing for the better!" I have been in America for several weeks now and things are much tougher that I would have ever expected! I heard that there was a place to go that would help women, I think it's called something

I am ecstatic to know that you are alive and well. It feels like it has been an eternity since you were born 23 years ago in our very own home in England. I still remember the day that I had to leave you, tears swelling up in my eyes, I left when you were only at the age of 8! It killed me to leave you, knowing I would probably never see you or your mother's face ever again. But here we are, communicating by letter from distant colonies in the new world. At least I can sigh of relief knowing that

Sophia considered herself dauntless in most situations, but she was feeling a dearth of it from the dream she just had, which was fading fast. Sophia got up and looked around, she was in a place she did not recognize; she was in what looked like a prison cell. Sophia got up and went to the door, only to find it open; behind the door was a hallway that made a right turn at the end. Behind her she thought she heard footsteps coming so she quickly ran to the nearest door and went inside, closing it

Rules by Cynthia Lord Dear Diary, Today I’ll tell you how my life is based upon rules. All I want to do is feel normal. But I can’t. This is kind of hard when you have a brother with autism [David] and because of his disability the family revolves around him. Over the years I have been trying to help David by making rules. With these rules I won’t have to worry about David’s embarrassing behaviors and David could also grow out of these habits. Over the summer I befriended a disabled boy named