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Ww1 Diary Entry

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The inspiration for my diary entry was the trip to Ypres because when we went there I saw how the soldiers lived in the trenches and I got more of an image of how their lives were like in the war. This motivated me to write from the viewpoint of a soldier in the war, and I chose a British soldier because of the ability to get the language that actual British soldiers used in the war across better because this was their original language. The trip to Ypres helped because then I could see how the lives of the soldiers were, and I got an actual image of the trenches because we went there and really experienced what it must have been like for the soldiers. The history skills that were useful in putting together my performance were definitely source …show more content…

The research I did on text types and examples of World War I texts that I found also had a lot of influence on my text because I looked at how the soldiers wrote their diary entries and what kind of things they wrote about. When I had a look at all the diary entries I saw that that was the only time many of the soldiers talked about their feelings and didn’t actually try to hide what they feel to make the women at home proud or to be more of a ‘man’. In the diary entries many of them talked about their unfiltered feelings so that is why I did that in mine as …show more content…

My particular character talks a lot about how much he wants to go home but he also talks about how he hides his feelings about the war when he writes to his wife and that is what traumatized a lot of soldiers even more because they had to ‘man up’ and pretend like the war was nothing to them while many of them were deeply hurt and affected by

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