WWI+RAFT+G+Janet

Role of Writer: observer/eyewitness

Audience: myself as in a French soldier

Format: diary entry

Topic: Trenches of West Front

March 30th, 1915

Dear Diary, It has been several weeks since the French Army has built the approximately 500 miles long trench and since the French soldiers has been living in the long narrow ditch... If somebody asked me about the life in the trench, I would say one thing; death is better than living in the trench.Because other thought so too, which resulted as numerous suicides... The sad part is that the dead body just decays in the detestable trench. I know diary... It is very miserable but that is not the only tragic part... Rats... They were literally EVERYWHERE because they reproduce very rapidly... Also, because we dug dirt out to create this despicable, there was mud literally EVERYWHERE: food, water, cloths, bed, blanket, my hair and my boots.Diary, even though I know that this sounds VERY childish and, not to mention, immature, this is how I feel right now......I want to go home..........I am in desperate need of my wife Mary, my daughter Emily and my son Jack...I cannot believe that I just said, I mean, wrote that... However, it is the truth...Okay Diary! Since I am extremely tired, I shall complain about my life that became dreary because of the Great War tomorrow again.