The Marymount Literary Connection serves as a forum for students to further discuss the literature they read both at home and at school.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Grade 10 (A block): Due before Monday, September 19th
Consider the story "Worry" by Ron Wallace. Pretend that you are either the wife/mother, the husband/father, or the daughter. Write a diary entry from that character's perspective. Be creative!
Dear Diary, Tpday I tried LCD for the first time, and it felt amazing. It made me feel like one of the happiest people on earth, and that's definitely something I want to experience everyday. They can tell me what5 decisions to make, but they can't make me follow through with anything I don't want to do. I don't see the harm in drugs if all they do is make you feel good. My body has no reaction to it, and nothing in any pill can do harm to me, it's just a pill. I found myself lying in bed, fine, not a scratch on me, and nothing happened but a slight headache in the morning.
I wrote this diary entry to show that she does not know how harmful drugs are to her body, and that is why she continues to take them as if they were just vitamine tablets. I would definitely say that she is ignorant when it comes to health and her body.
It is day 7563 since I’m on Earth. I still can not believe that I have a husband and a daughter. No one suspects anything. My creator has been sending signals for my return. It’s been warning me of people finding out the Secret. It also threatens me by telling me it will come to destroy my family. What is worse, I found out my daughter has been sleeping around which made me afraid that someone will find out she is a half alien. My husband doesn’t even know it! He is so human that he only cares about trifle things. Day by day my worries get bigger and bigger. I even worry our neighbors might be spies send by It. It said that It will come in the day 8000 to get me. Time is running out and I’m desperate. IF he comes I will erase all the memories that my husband and daughter have of me so they won’t suffer as I do. All the worries belong to me, not to them.
Dear Diary, I hate living here. My parents only care about stupid things and I feel like I dont mean anything at all to them. Everyday I see the concern in their eyes increase and sometimes I wonder if they'll become mad. I hate my family, they dont respect my decisions, they don't even CONSIDER them. Yesterday my friend Mark gave me some pills telling me that they would help me being happier, and by now I would do anything even just for a smile. I ve been taking these pills and they really work, I feel like in anoter world and I really feel happy even if that lasts only for one hour, Im starting to take them more frequently. I hope that one day Iìll live this town, cause I want to live my life happy. Love Lizzie
Dear diary, Today I saw my daughter returning home, but she seemed quite loony. I hope she is not taking drugs anymore. I am very worried for my daughter.I secretly entered her room because I was very suspicious, I found the report card in her bag, she failed in everything, even in P.E. I am very concerned about this, because she sems to be very irresponsible. Tonight I will definitly talk to her about this, and I will try to figure out what's wrong now. It's better if she stops now using drugs, otherwise she will realize, one day, how stupid she was when she could have stopped, but persevered in taking this substances.
Dear Diary, I just finished dinner, my parents are still sitting in the kitchen "talking".. I can't wait to live by my self. It's so frustrating to have to listen to Mom worry about what I do with my life. Why does she worry so much about it when she doesn't care enough to do something about it? Not that I would listen to her anyways. The last thing that I would want would be to end up like her. I have to go now, John is picking me up tonight, I'm sneaking out from the window, I better go get ready, I hope he doesn't bale on me!
I chose the daughter's prospective because I feel that, in the story, she is the only one that is trying to rebel, that looks forward to get away from the situation and sleeping around and doing drugs is the only way she knows . I didn't wright anything about her relationship with her father because reading the story I didn't feel there was one. The mother, on the other hand, always was concerned about the daughter. In the end I wanted to wright something that reminded that, although she hated the "worry" so much and wanted to get away from it, she could never entirely abandon it because it became a part of her.
Dear Diary, I am worried about my daughter, it's the second night that she sleeps away from home and I don't know really well what she is going to do... she is only 16 years old and doesn't know what scary adventures the world reserves for her. I am his father and I really don't know what to tell her to stop this nonsense and extremely bad things I think she's doing. I am writing you this because I read on her secret diary that she is taking drugs and smoking from a few weeks. It's the second time she sleeps to her friends house, precisely Jenny's house and that girl scares me because the few times I saw her she seemed totally lost in her own world and I saw her even smoking some cigarettes... My daughter Kelly knew her this summer in a summer camp in England. I hope all this solicitous and ancious situation will pass very fastly. I am decided to speak to her tomorrow,with my wife,as soon as she comes back home.
Dear Diary, Today has been a day as the others, my wife still torments me with her worries on our daughter, she still doesn't understand that I am am not worried at all, it's me who let her use drugs and sleep around with other guys, those are all experiences that a person should live to understand life better.
Dear Diary, My parents are so anyoing they really what to bore me to death... At least i got my cool friends that can cheer me up when im down. Today one of my best friends talled me that i should try this white powder. He said that its not harmfull at all, he said that all my prablems will vanish and i will fell different and i will be in a new body.
Dear Diary,
ReplyDeleteTpday I tried LCD for the first time, and it felt amazing. It made me feel like one of the happiest people on earth, and that's definitely something I want to experience everyday. They can tell me what5 decisions to make, but they can't make me follow through with anything I don't want to do. I don't see the harm in drugs if all they do is make you feel good. My body has no reaction to it, and nothing in any pill can do harm to me, it's just a pill. I found myself lying in bed, fine, not a scratch on me, and nothing happened but a slight headache in the morning.
I wrote this diary entry to show that she does not know how harmful drugs are to her body, and that is why she continues to take them as if they were just vitamine tablets. I would definitely say that she is ignorant when it comes to health and her body.
It is day 7563 since I’m on Earth. I still can not believe that I have a husband and a daughter. No one suspects anything. My creator has been sending signals for my return. It’s been warning me of people finding out the Secret. It also threatens me by telling me it will come to destroy my family. What is worse, I found out my daughter has been sleeping around which made me afraid that someone will find out she is a half alien. My husband doesn’t even know it! He is so human that he only cares about trifle things. Day by day my worries get bigger and bigger. I even worry our neighbors might be spies send by It. It said that It will come in the day 8000 to get me. Time is running out and I’m desperate. IF he comes I will erase all the memories that my husband and daughter have of me so they won’t suffer as I do. All the worries belong to me, not to them.
ReplyDeleteDaughetr's Perspective:
ReplyDeleteDear Diary,
I hate living here. My parents only care about stupid things and I feel like I dont mean anything at all to them.
Everyday I see the concern in their eyes increase and sometimes I wonder if they'll become mad. I hate my family, they dont respect my decisions, they don't even CONSIDER them.
Yesterday my friend Mark gave me some pills telling me that they would help me being happier, and by now I would do anything even just for a smile. I ve been taking these pills and they really work, I feel like in anoter world and I really feel happy even if that lasts only for one hour, Im starting to take them more frequently.
I hope that one day Iìll live this town, cause I want to live my life happy.
Love
Lizzie
Dear diary,
ReplyDeleteToday I saw my daughter returning home, but she seemed quite loony. I hope she is not taking drugs anymore. I am very worried for my daughter.I secretly entered her room because I was very suspicious, I found the report card in her bag, she failed in everything, even in P.E. I am very concerned about this, because she sems to be very irresponsible.
Tonight I will definitly talk to her about this, and I will try to figure out what's wrong now.
It's better if she stops now using drugs, otherwise she will realize, one day, how stupid she was when she could have stopped, but persevered in taking this substances.
Dear Diary,
ReplyDeleteI just finished dinner, my parents are still sitting in the kitchen "talking".. I can't wait to live by my self. It's so frustrating to have to listen to Mom worry about what I do with my life. Why does she worry so much about it when she doesn't care enough to do something about it? Not that I would listen to her anyways. The last thing that I would want would be to end up like her.
I have to go now, John is picking me up tonight, I'm sneaking out from the window, I better go get ready, I hope he doesn't bale on me!
I chose the daughter's prospective because I feel that, in the story, she is the only one that is trying to rebel, that looks forward to get away from the situation and sleeping around and doing drugs is the only way she knows . I didn't wright anything about her relationship with her father because reading the story I didn't feel there was one. The mother, on the other hand, always was concerned about the daughter.
In the end I wanted to wright something that reminded that, although she hated the "worry" so much and wanted to get away from it, she could never entirely abandon it because it became a part of her.
Dear Diary,
ReplyDeleteI am worried about my daughter, it's the second night that she sleeps away from home and I don't know really well what she is going to do... she is only 16 years old and doesn't know what scary adventures the world reserves for her. I am his father and I really don't know what to tell her to stop this nonsense and extremely bad things I think she's doing. I am writing you this because I read on her secret diary that she is taking drugs and smoking from a few weeks. It's the second time she sleeps to her friends house, precisely Jenny's house and that girl scares me because the few times I saw her she seemed totally lost in her own world and I saw her even smoking some cigarettes... My daughter Kelly knew her this summer in a summer camp in England.
I hope all this solicitous and ancious situation will pass very fastly. I am decided to speak to her tomorrow,with my wife,as soon as she comes back home.
Dear Diary,
ReplyDeleteToday has been a day as the others, my wife still torments me with her worries on our daughter, she still doesn't understand that I am am not worried at all, it's me who let her use drugs and sleep around with other guys, those are all experiences that a person should live to understand life better.
P.S.: the eaves is rotten and the tap loses
Dear Diary,
ReplyDeleteMy parents are so anyoing they really what to bore me to death... At least i got my cool friends that can cheer me up when im down. Today one of my best friends talled me that i should try this white powder. He said that its not harmfull at all, he said that all my prablems will vanish and i will fell different and i will be in a new body.