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Read ‘A Testimony’ and then plan and write 300 words

1.      You are A H in the chapter ‘A Testimony’.  Write a diary entry about your experience.

Dear Diary,

When the soldiers first knocked at my door and I was asked for my papers. I thought it was just a controlled visit. I don’t remember anything wrong with them. However, they took me to a building by the front line. The feelings of not knowing were, why and for what I was there were terrifying. They told to take me off all my cloth and run across the street while they shoot me if I wanted to continue with life, . I will never ever understand what was this about; I was panic. The fear didn’t let me think about anything else rather than trying to keep with life for my wife.

Although weeks had passed since the incident, I continued having nightmares about the endless street that almost took my life. Running away from these soldiers was not the hardest part. After an anonymous person dressed me like a child, because I couldn’t feel my legs, I crossed into the other side of the town. Either way I looked at the city, which was destroyed and the people were hungry and full of fear and sadness, this broke my hurt, and I realized I was in the same situation.

I never stopped thinking about her, not even for a moment. Despite all the horror of the situation, I never doubted that I was going to escape and meet with my wife in Croatia again. I was sure I had to get out of the city, if not I would have gone crazy. Other people achieved to get away, why not me?

I never lost hope of being safe with her. After days of thinking and planning the way out, the day of my escape arrived. I was aware it was not going to be easy and if they caught me, I would be shot. With all my strength I crawl, run, and jump dead bodies. Something else was left to do and I will be able to meet her. When the soldiers opened the door and saw me, my hurt stopped beating. However, when they let us go I felt I was born again.

Finally, I saw the thing I was waiting for what has seems like decades, I felt relief, glad and most of it delight.

RATIONAL

I wrote a dairy entry about the feelings of the H character when he was caught by a group of soldiers and he had to plan a way to meet again with his wife. It was written with a tone of fear and hopes to address to any reader who wills to understand the situation of the people during the war.

In my diary entry I tried to use emotive language with phrases like “I was panic”, “my hurt stop beating”, “I never stopped thinking about her”. I tried as well to use strong and moving adjectives such as “terrifying”, “endless”, “fear”. Using these elements i feel i reached my purpose of reflecting about the character feelings during these difficult situation.

I choose to write a diary entry because I felt that in this way I could reach to hock the reader by writing the character feelings in a personal way.