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My first genre is a diary from the perspective of Jing-mei from “Two Kinds”, by Amy Tan. Although it is not known if she kept a diary in the story, I imagined what it might look like if she did. I wrote what her day might have been like if there was no conflict whatsoever. Her day is uninteresting and just a skeleton of what it could be. Although on the other hand, I wrote what her diary would look like for a day filled with conflict. Although she is fighting with her mother, the day would be exciting and new.
My next Genre is a newspaper from Verona at the time of Romeo and Juliet. In the first entry, I have a wedding announcement from the Capulets. I wrote a plain old wedding announcement. If you replace the names, you can use, and reuse

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