William Julian Pryor Essays - Linguistics, Gender-neutral Language

William Julian Pryor Assignment Annex Perspectives Description For this assignment, you will choose a resident of the annex (other than Anne) and rewrite a journal entry from this individual's perspective. Specifications Your entry should Reflect what you have learned about the personality traits and viewpoints of the individual you select. Adopt this individual's perspective, as though you were seeing the world through this individual's eyes. This should include Use of first-person pronouns (such as I, me, and my) to refer to this individual, not yourself. A tone that realistically reflects how this individual would feel about the subject matter he or she writes about. You may select to rewrite one of the following entries: Tuesday, July 13, 1943, or Friday, October 29, 1943 Tuesday, July 13, 1943 . The times are depressing . The weather is dark and gloomy here, much like our spirits. Almost every day it seems that one of our number is dragged away and killed. Each of us dr eads every moment fearing that he or she will be next. We all know that we will die eventually. Even for the most hopeful, there is no thought of survival. We will all perish in this place. I chose to write the entry from the viewpoint of a sad, hopeless boy. All he sees is sorrow and despair, seeing murders and deaths nearly every day. That is why I chose to make the mood depressing and miserable , because I believes that it mirrors the situation in which he is.