Class 11 English Unit 10: Writing a Diary

 

Writing a diary

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A diary is a personal record of things that a person has experienced. It can also record the writer’s thoughts or feelings. Tips for writing a diary

ü Write in the first person ‘I’

ü Date at the top

ü Organize paragraphs with topic sentences

ü Give a clear sense of the writer’s personality and explain their feelings and changing emotions.

ü Focus on key moments or incidents in one’s world.

ü Provide a sense of time and sequence (use time connectives like finally, afterwards, earlier, later that day …)

ü Varied punctuation – Varied sentence types

Suppose a child who lived in a city with his/her parents accompanied his/her father to visit an elderly grandmother in the village. The grandmother was waiting for her son to come back to the village and look after her, but her son was not willing to do so. Write a diary on behalf of the elderly grandmother describing her feelings of not living with her children and grandchildren.

Sunday, 2 Baishakh 2082

I love my children as well as my grandchildren very much. I am waiting for their arrival, but they are not coming. Why didn’t they come yesterday? What’s the reason for it? Are they angry with me? I think I said something wrong when they came last time. It may be my mistake because I scolded my son, Dipak, for not coming to visit me regularly. Another reason for not coming may be my refusal to sell family property and shift to the city. I love my village and its surroundings.

Once, I visited my son’s Kathmandu city to worship lord Pashupatinath. I stayed for 7 days there, but I felt suffocated there. There was no place to greenery around the city. His neighbors aren’t friendly either. In my village, most of the villagers are helpful to each other. We respect and talk to each other. But the situation is different in the city. All are selfish and ignorant of each other.

People are indifferent to each other. Most of the people in the city love to live an individualistic life. My son wanted to buy a house in Kathmandu to shift from his rented flat. He wanted to sell all the ancient properties of our village. But I think that it is not a good idea to sell three acres of land in the village and buy an anna in Kathmandu. I was sick the last time I visited Kathmandu. I can’t breathe in the polluted air of the city. I love my grandchildren very much. I wanted to take care of them in our village. I think it is the right place for my grandchildren because, like in the city, there is also a boarding school in our village. Let’s hope my son will understand the importance of village life as well as his mother.

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