Write a diary entry pretending to be Anne Frank. Write about what has been happening in your life while hiding in the Secret Annex. Write about the other people you are staying with and how you feel about them. This diary entry needs to be in YOUR OWN WORDS. Do not copy words from the book. You are pretending to be Anne and so you will make up the words.

we need the passage first

buenas noches would be your answer

word count 168

serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

synonymous.

he was ashamed of himself