Diary

The Motorcycle Diaries is a film set in 1952 which followed 23 year-old Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (also called Fuser) who was on break before returning to his last semester of medical school and his friend Alberto Granado (nicknamed Mial) who was a 29 year-old biochemist. This film was based on the diaries of Guevara and provides an account of an 8,000 km motorcycle journey to see as much of the continent of South America in the few months before returning to complete college. The trip would…

Did you ever think about writing a diary? You must have been introvert if you did so. But what happened then? Did you start writing? Were you scared of privacy? Did you think it was a waste of time? I am an introvert and diary is my best friend. Here is my story of diary writing: When I was 12, I got inspired by a newspaper article and started writing a diary. I used to write about homework, teachers or parents which I discontinued later. When I was 18, after a gap of 2 years, I again started…

In the novels Speak by Laurie Anderson and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie, freshmen Melinda and Arnold are adjusting to their new schools, but find themselves as outsiders in the sea of their fellow students. Many of these students loathe Melinda because she called the police on a party last year, even though the call was made in desperation after being a victim of rape. Arnold encounters comparable challenges. The students at his school have animosity towards…

Facing your problems is better than running away from them. The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian and Catcher in the Rye are about teenage characters who feel like an outsider with many problems in the process. Both characters expresses it in their own ways. Both Junior of The Absolute True Diary of a Part time Indian and Holden of Catcher in the Rye feel like outsiders, but Holden is running away from his past whereas Junior is running towards his future. Both characters have a similar…

Day 4 I had breakfast in the morning and got ready for the day. I got my bow and arrows, and I went to the wall to observe and help defend. By the time I made it to the gatehouse, a messenger from the sieging army met up with the lord of the castle, and this messenger demanded an immediate surrender or else everyone in the castle will be killed. Obviously, the the mighty noble refused and sent the messenger back in dismay. Later, I entered the gatehouse, and I found Richard again. He asked me if…

Discovery involves complex paths, decisions, choices, and varying points of view; though the actual discovery is important, the path that is taken, the journey to make a discovery is what forms the impact and importance. In his diary, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara remarks on how much he had changed over the course of his trip without even realising it. While reflecting he notes what changed him in the journey and encourages the audience to notice the changes as well. The War of the Worlds, illustrates…

When an individual’s assumptions are challenged by significant discoveries, their lives are often transformed. This perspective is represented throughout Ernesto Che Guevara’s eclectic memoir, The Motorcycle Diaries, which details his arguably metamorphic journey through Latin America in the early 1950s and the diverse discoveries he makes, which are personal and political in their nature. Guevara’s varied and confronting encounters throughout his travels challenge his preconceived views of…

Hello my name is Gretel, and No one knows what im about say in this diary because I told Bruno my little brother I wouldn’t tell. He told me everything that happed at out-with (a concentration camp for Jews) before he passed away, and I can’t keep it to myself anymore it’s too hard for me to hold it in and keep it tucked away forever, others need to know what “The Fury” is doing. Bruno, my younger brother was living in Berlin with me (Gretel), mother, and father, (Father at the time had just…

the Turner Diaries. This book goes into specific “details about the overthrow of the U.S. Government by a group of racist, anti-Semitic militiamen” Some of his comrades remember him talking to himself about the government (Velez). They say he became obsessed with this book. The crime scene investigators found a single passage in the getaway car. In this passage, “the narrator explains that the bombing was necessary to wake up America” (Cole). There was a conspiracy that the Turner Diaries was…

High School, her yearbook quote was, “When’s this due ?” “Stefen, I love you.” Vampire Diaries, “The Turning Point.” As Sarah watches this show intensely, with the lights off, she hears a thunderous bang. Sarah is home alone, so most people would go and check it out, but she is not in any way intelligent, so she doesn’t. Then another bang, she ignores it,“Stefan, why do I look like her!” Vampire Diaries, “Bloodlines.” Sarah is now crying, because her favorite television couple are having a…