The Restoration Assignment #4

Read either "from the Diary of Samuel Pepys" or "from A Journal of the Plague Year" by Daniel Defoe, both of which can be found in the purple anthology. Once you have finished reading, write a 1-2 paragraph response to what you have read. Please be sure to include some direct evidence from the text to help show what you are responding to.

I chose, "A Journal of the Plague Year". It was really weird. I think it is extremely sad that all those people died. I wonder if he died after ending his story. The fact that almost 2,000 less people died was amazing. Those kind of numbers would definitely have me excited too, but I probably wouldn't be so quick to start touching people. It is scary that all the sudden you look down and are slowly deteriorating out of no where. Then, all the sudden you're marked and die. The plague was a very scary thing to live through, I'm sure. I probably would have wanted to kill myself just like the examples in the story. I would probably be affected like the guy who was following his wife and kids even though he really wasn't dying himself. This was a really said piece of literature.