Next, write a journal entry from the perspective of yourself in 10 years. Your entry should be about 200-250 words in length. Your entry should also include the social and personal changes you noted down while brainstorming. Use the
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the answer is five curious-looking beans

faith or loyalty when pledged in a solemn agreement or undertaking.

boccaccio employs the voice of his narrator dioneo to represent his ideas on the tension between masculinity and femininity.  while dioneo excites the members of the brigata and recognizes women for their unique skills and independent ideas, he concludes the decameron with a story reminiscent of the society from which these young aristocrats escaped, revealing misogynistic overtones.  dioneo boccaccio is able to explore the gender disparity which is inherent in 14th century florentine society.