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Dear Diary By Yasmeen



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Dear Diary, Here I am in China, everyone has started to make the longest wall I ever seen in my life. Ruler Shi Huang Di says it’s to protect us from the Mongols but why do us innocent people have to do this project. We have families at home. I am a farmer with three kids at home. My best friend MuiChi has four kids at home and he misses his kids so much that he talks about them everyday. I want to be with my kids. But out here there aren’t even soilders from what I see, only us farmers, villigers, and traders. Why is that? Well, so long for now.

Li Shi

Dear Diary, This morning while waking up I find that someone has ran away. He went by the name Lu Shou. A few hours early he left but then was caught by the soldiers who are watching everyone. They first woke everyone up and they lectured us about doing a wrong thing like this can get you into problems you don’t want. But I stopped and thinked what could they possibly do to us out here. They didn’t tell us what could happen, they showed us. They cut the man’s head off in front of us. Everyone looked devestated. They did it to scare us. I definetly didn’t want to run away and everybody else thought about it twice. After that tragic moment we immediately started working again. No sympathy or sorrow. These people were serious. No joke. I miss my family even more than usual. So long,

Li Shi

Dear Diary, I have come a long way with this. It has already been 6 weeks and still doing the same thing. Waking up, doing work. Work and more work. I haven’t been able to take any vacations and see my family. I miss them so much. I wonder what my kids are doing right about now. Q-ha my daughter, is probably playing with her drum toy. Tui Shi my son, is playing with his baba toy that is the shape of a dragon. I gave it to him when he was three weeks old. Probably Li Ka is with his mother enjoying out side. I love him so much. I miss them all so much. I wish that I wasn’t here. So long, Li Shi

Dear Diary, It has been 2 months now.This has been the most depressing week. My friend Muichi has passed. Today at 7:00 am. The soilders found him dead, lying near the wall. They say it was of exhuastion and starvation. I should have been there for him. I should have fed him. It was my fault that he died. The other guys said that it wasn’t my fault. It was his time. I miss him so much. Let this moment be in pray. Fair well,

Li Shi

Dear Diary, So far everything has been well after losing my best friend.Things haven’t been the same without him but I’ve been getting used to it. I hope to get out of here as soon as possible. See my family and get back to my usual life. It will be hard but I will do it.

Questions: 1) Who came up with the idea to make this wall? 2) Who was it that caught the man running away? 3) What rank of people were working on the wall?