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Diary Entries

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Diary Entries

A diary is a recount of events in a person’s life, usually written in chronological time order.

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Content of a diary

  • A diary documents what happens in a person’s life.
    • A diary is written in the first person.
  • A diary is usually structured by providing a date for each diary entry to record when events happened.
  • Diaries explain the writer’s thoughts and feelings about events too.
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Diaries significance

  • Diaries are usually kept private by the person writing them.
  • Sometimes diaries become widely read and very important to understand history.
    • Diaries have been read and analysed for hundreds of years.
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Historical importance

  • Reading diaries is a way to explore what life was like in a particular period.
  • Diaries describe life from a person’s perspective (point of view).

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