Romeo and Juliet: its everywhere!

Romeo and Juliet are just like Shrek and Fiona for the movie Shrek. They are both start locked away from each other. Fiona is looked in a tower and Juliet is locked in her house. But Romeo and Shrek are free to go where they may. But they all fight through because of love and end up seeing each other.

Connecting to Romeo and Juliet

At some points about the characters in Romeo and Juliet I understand but others I am having trouble agreeing with. I don't feel like Romeo, Juliet or any of the other teens really act like our teens today, for example Romeo at the beginning of the play he is depressed and sad because he likes a girl who don't like him back. Today if you have a crush and the person doesn't like you back you learn to move on you don't get depressed that would just be taken as a dramatic today. Romeo's family comes off to be more concerned about how he feels and keeping him safe compared to Juliet's family who seem to be worried about how they look to the public and who important Juliet marries but not how she feels.

       I really enjoy reading the book at home and then going over the section in class the next day. It helps but reading it and annotating then going over what I should have annotated and comparing it to what I go the day before. I feel that I decipher some of the story, then at school I realize what more to decipher and to annotate for which it really helpful. Over all I am totally for this reading at home then reading and talking about it after school, I feel it's really useful.

Wrapping up Great Expectations

In Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations many different themes are introduced and interpretations can be different. A theme I noticed woven through the book is that self-improvement and ambition can be virtuous things but can be irruptive when constant shame is involved. In our lives we all have had times when we want to for example; get an A on a paper or do better in a sport. These things are great in themselves but if our goals cut out our past then how do we really know who we are? Our past shapes us into who we are now and who we will be in the future. Self-improvement should be something that we are proud of but if shame haunts our every step than how can we really improve ourselves and become better people? Dickens uses Pip to show how this is something that everyone goes through as they grow up. Growing up is hard in its self, but if shame follows our every move we will never reach the potential that we have inside ourselves.