Have you ever kept a diary? Have you ever wondered why people did? In John Mullan’s article, From religious reflection to mummy vlogs: diaries through the ages, he explains the dairies throughout the age and answers the questions to why keep a dairy? I found this article interesting and I enjoyed learning the history of a diary through the ages. Mullan starts his article explaining how an exhibition in London explores the history of diary keeping. It’s based on an ordinary person keeping a diary and how it changed over decades. In earlier centuries, people kept a diary for religious reasons. Mullan states that, “Dairy-keeping was closely related to the growth of Protestantism.” He believes this has to do with the type of novels that came …show more content…
Mullan tells his readers to “sign yourself up and a few words from you can make an entry look rich.” He then continues to go into explaining a modern diary. Mullan mentions many celebrity diarists and their purpose is “self-investigation.” He also talks about the diaries doctors have kept explaining diagnosis’s of cancer. He adds in examples of what he considers as “weird” diaries and talked about financial-account keeping of dairies. Mullan explains how electronic devices have now made it easier to write. People record almost anything nowadays. He states that diarists record almost anything such as books, their health, phone calls, dreams and even kiss lists. Diaries have come a long way since the earliest centuries, almost anything can be considered as “diary.” They aren’t always …show more content…
I was always fascinated with dairies and I even had a journal myself growing up. Dairies have such importance and helped us even explain a lot of history. Mullan argues that diaries any simply be almost anything a person records. I never thought about that when you record your dreams this could be considered a diary. Mullan’s over all point is to explain to his readers what a diary is, different types of diaries and how they changed over the years. He ended his article on a strong note. He Argued the importance and strong emotions behind past diary entries. Mullan states in his final paragraph, “Most diaries do not end so much as stop.” Then finally ended his article with one more final story about Keith Vaughan. He was suffering from cancer and took a lethal drug to end his own life. He wrote an entry during his final moments and Mullan considered Vaughan making a commitment to his diary. I found this to be very powerful, how Mullan decided to end his article on such a strong note. I believe he wants his readers to truly understand how emotion and strong a diary entry can be, along with their
... being driven out of her mind, so writing is one of the only things she can do to keep herself occupied. “I know I shouldn’t write but I’ve got to do something.She writes about everything that she is experiencing, and while every once and a while looks back into the past, she is usually in the present. This is written in first person point of view as well.
Joan Didion in her essay, “On Keeping a Notebook”, stresses that keeping a notebook is not like keeping a journal. Didion supports her claim by describing entries that are in her notebook. The author’s purpose is to enlighten the reader as to what a notebook is. The author writes in a nostalgic tone for those who are reading the essay, so that they can relate to her. She uses rhetorical appeals; such as flashback, pathos, and imagery to name a few. By using these devices she helps capture the reader’s attention.
I have chosen to write a diary entries on behalf of Pete's brother Joey. I will write two dairy entries, first one is after he was taken to the group home and second one after his mom died. I felt that Joey would be keen to record his days of struggle in his dairy. Although Joey was alone when
What provokes a person to write about his or her life? What motivates us to read it? Moreover, do men and women tell their life story in the same way? The answers may vary depending on the person who answers the questions. However, one may suggest a reader elects to read an autobiography because there is an interest. This interest allows the reader to draw from the narrator's experience and to gain understanding from the experience. When the reader involves him/herself in the experience, the reader encounters what is known and felt by the narrator. The encounter may provide the reader an opportunity to explore a time and place long past.
"I had traveled much on the Kennebec, by water, by ice, and, during those treacherous seasons when the river was neither one nor the other, by faith" (e.g., A Midwife's Tale). Martha's diary is one of the few documents written by a woman that exist today and that describes the behavior, occupation, roles, and daily activities of a common society in the 18th century during and after the Revolution. Although she dedicates her whole life to help others and her family, the diary exposes a very different world with the very different community. Many other history documents lacked the problems of women and the lack of written documents by the female gender. Through this document, Martha gives the importance of women in the community and how they
Author, Joan Didion, in her essay, On Keeping a Notebook, expands the importance of keeping a notebook. Didion’s purpose is to elucidate why having and using a notebook is essential and give examples of how to keep one. She adopts a forthright and didactic tone in order to emphasize notebook keeping with her audience. Didion provides rhetorical question, flashbacks, and the use of pathos to support the purpose of writing her essay.
I keep my journal hidden; the script, the drawings, the color, the weight of the paper, contents I hope never to be experienced by another. My journal is intensely personal, temporal and exposed. When opening the leather bound formality of Alice Williamson's journal a framework of meaning is presupposed by the reader's own feelings concerning the medium. Reading someone else's diary can be, and is for myself, an voyeuristic invasion of space. The act of reading makes the private and personal into public. Yet, for Alice Williamson and many other female journalists of the Civil War period, the journal was creating a public memory of the hardship that would be sustained when read by others. The knowledge of the outside reader reading of your life was as important as the exercise of recording for one's self; creating a sense of sentimentality connecting people through emotions. (Arnold)
She fears imprisonment because she was involved in a communist group. She writes a diary that tells the story of her hidden half and past. The protagonist is so scared to tell the truth to her husband that she expresses herself through words; her dairy is her way to fill the pages with herself and avoid the feeling of emptiness. The diary is written to affirm her ’ I ‘ and her true self, something that she could not do in real life and imagine a better reality that can create possibility and hope. Through writing, she is able to form her own self and writes herself into existence. In her diary, she can reclaim her intellectual space; she can express herself freely and can confess her thoughts away from the pressure of her
For this written task, I have chosen to write a diary based on Ophelia’s perspective of the events. A diary is a form of autobiographical writing kept to record activities and reflections. It allows for further insight on the writer’s thoughts and feelings, given that it provides a sense of frankness dissimilar to those of other writing forms.
...writers? Looks were exchanged, pages were ripped out, and who knows what was kept from this document. Having a record is the best way to present the gift of knowledge, so that we can make the world better but so much is affected by the surrounding situation. Our knowledge is fallible.”
This complicates her economic exigencies because say readers assume that she is feeling as though she lost her purpose—she can also go back to her diary for self-motivation which can lead to success. Therefore, her diary is a symbol of her bold imagination and even great ambitions. However, Chunming’s diary is not the only thing that defines her bold imagination. Trying to make her quality of life better, Chunming chose a different path to make money. Due to her impressive imagination, she started working for a company that sells hangers and molding parts.
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Writing in a notebook can be important for reassurance or a reflection on one’s self. That can be hard for some people. Yet, putting the effort into writing in a notebook can be challenging. One author that represents this idea is Joan Didion. Didion wrote a book called “On Keeping a Notebook” which depicts what she does, sees, or thinks and she writes about it in her notebook. She also reflects on her past self, who she used to be, who she is now and how the things she writes in her notebook felt to her. In order to be true to ourselves, we must recognize who we used to be and how we reached who we are now.
Having faced the ultimate betrayal by her mother and the horrendous abuse by her father, Toni Maguire shares her story in the nonfictional book Don’t Tell Mummy. Toni Maguire’s book Don’t tell Mummy was one of UK’s bestsellers in 2007. On her WordPress blog Toni talked about her inspiration behind the book, stating “Writing about my experiences has helped me deal with the past and realize that there is no shame in being victimized.” She wrote a sequel to Don’t Tell Mummy called When Daddy Comes Home which talks about the emotional trauma and abuse she experienced on his return and how her mom continued to neglect and betray her. She later states on her blog that where children are victims, adults need to be survivors. In the story Don’t Tell Mummy Antoinette displays the courage of a survivor.
Do you remember when your sister used to write in her diary and how curious you were on finding out what she wrote in it? If you didn’t have a sister – do you remember keeping your own diary hoping that your mom would not find it one day and read it? At a young age, we all learn to keep a diary or journal. In elementary school, we may have been required to write in a journal in class replying to a question asked by the teacher like “How was your weekend?” or “How was your break?” Simple questions were asked to help generate ideas in our young minds and help us write our own story. But now that we are older, do we still have the opportunity to write our own story the same way we used to? Are we still able to release our emotions and reflect on events in our lives? Though many people see keeping a journal as childish or a waste of time, the effects of recording ones thoughts are beneficial.