9th Grade
Metaphor & Memories
Freshman year I started high school from scratch. I’m at a new school, most of my classes aren't with people I know from middle school. My only comfort was my two best friends Denniece Clanton and Brianna Gonzalez was with me and that made the transition easier because we were as thick as thieves since middle school. I thought coming to high school I wouldn't have many friends but making friends came quite easy. The first day of lunch I sat with upper class girls, who knew my older sister Queet, who also attended Ocean Lakes. So from that day I was known as “lil queet” to everyone, which was sometimes annoying when people called me that.
During my freshman year I took a parenting class and that class showed me I would be the worst mother. We were task with taking care of fake babies, you could say they were real but just know I failed at being a pretend mommy. English was a transition for me, it was nothing I had experience in middle school. My vision of high school is exactly how I picture it, meeting new amazing friends, hanging out with different people, made my freshman year a blast. That was also the year my sister gave birth to my nephew, who is the best thing that happen to me. He kept a smile on my face the most of that year. I also had the experience to go to ring dance as a freshman. That was a fun night. Overall I was a happy person, I had no problem with anyone. I kept a positive attitude that whole year.
I had a blank mind when it came to reading novels. Freshman year was the beginning of me hating novels. Great Expectations was a struggle for me, it was a challenge for me to read but overall it wasn't a terrible book. Reading Animal Farm was cool to read knowing the author managed to describe the government in Russia by using animals. It was new to me so it caught my interest. I can’t say I love to read but I always did what I had to do to pass the class.
Inspiration was what I needed to write essays. I never wrote a literary analysis before until I came to high school. Great Expectations was the first book I read so Mrs. Wiles had us write a literary analysis right away. It was complicated especially citing the proper way but it wasn't bad at all. Unlike now, back then I wrote my essays on time and I never procrastinated writing them. English was nice flow wasn't hard, but it wasn't too easy.
I loved all my teachers that year, they taught me to be a better person. I wouldn't change anything if I could.
Freshman year I started high school from scratch. I’m at a new school, most of my classes aren't with people I know from middle school. My only comfort was my two best friends Denniece Clanton and Brianna Gonzalez was with me and that made the transition easier because we were as thick as thieves since middle school. I thought coming to high school I wouldn't have many friends but making friends came quite easy. The first day of lunch I sat with upper class girls, who knew my older sister Queet, who also attended Ocean Lakes. So from that day I was known as “lil queet” to everyone, which was sometimes annoying when people called me that.
During my freshman year I took a parenting class and that class showed me I would be the worst mother. We were task with taking care of fake babies, you could say they were real but just know I failed at being a pretend mommy. English was a transition for me, it was nothing I had experience in middle school. My vision of high school is exactly how I picture it, meeting new amazing friends, hanging out with different people, made my freshman year a blast. That was also the year my sister gave birth to my nephew, who is the best thing that happen to me. He kept a smile on my face the most of that year. I also had the experience to go to ring dance as a freshman. That was a fun night. Overall I was a happy person, I had no problem with anyone. I kept a positive attitude that whole year.
I had a blank mind when it came to reading novels. Freshman year was the beginning of me hating novels. Great Expectations was a struggle for me, it was a challenge for me to read but overall it wasn't a terrible book. Reading Animal Farm was cool to read knowing the author managed to describe the government in Russia by using animals. It was new to me so it caught my interest. I can’t say I love to read but I always did what I had to do to pass the class.
Inspiration was what I needed to write essays. I never wrote a literary analysis before until I came to high school. Great Expectations was the first book I read so Mrs. Wiles had us write a literary analysis right away. It was complicated especially citing the proper way but it wasn't bad at all. Unlike now, back then I wrote my essays on time and I never procrastinated writing them. English was nice flow wasn't hard, but it wasn't too easy.
I loved all my teachers that year, they taught me to be a better person. I wouldn't change anything if I could.
Introduction
During my freshman year my assignment was to write a theme literary analysis on “Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet”. I had to have my theme reflect off of the book by providing examples.
During my freshman year my assignment was to write a theme literary analysis on “Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet”. I had to have my theme reflect off of the book by providing examples.
Love doesn’t always paint a perfect picture
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Original
The underlining theme in obvious in both Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann adaption movie, “Romeo and Juliet” is love doesn’t always paint a perfect picture. They used the elements of narration, conflict, irony, and symbolism to convey the same theme effectively. Conflict reveals the theme of love doesn’t always paint a perfect picture because Romeo and Juliet couldn’t be together. They were being separated from each other over the conflicts between their families. In both play and movie they had conflicts between man vs. man. In man vs. man it was the family rivalry between Montague and Capulet. Romeo was a Montague and Juliet was a Capulet and their families despise each other company. Irony can also convey the theme. Romeo and Juliet love for each other was strong and they embrace their love in the matter of time. Romeo and Juliet had gotten marry but Romeo was force to banish from Verona for the death of Tybalt. Romeo leaving his love Juliet, her family was forcing her to marry someone who she shall not love. In this case she had foreshadowed her death if she couldn’t be with her one true lover Romeo. Situational irony was used for this theme. If Juliet wanted to be with Romeo she had to make her family believed that she was dead but really she drank poison to put her in a coma. Symbolism really developed the idea of love doesn’t always paint a perfect picture. The poison both Romeo and Juliet drank symbolized their love. Juliet knew she couldn’t be with Romeo because if their family and her father was willing to have Juliet not part of the Capulet family if she wasn’t going to marry the man they wanted her to. This made Juliet drank the poison that would put her in a coma to make her family believe she was dead. When she would awaken from the coma Romeo would be with her. The ironic thing was Romeo has gotten a message saying his lover was dead. Romeo had emptiness in his heart knowing that Juliet was dead. He could not be anything without her so he went and brought poison to kill himself next to the one he loved. When Juliet was awakened she saw Romeo dead so his death made her stabbed herself in Shakespeare’s play but in Luhrmann’s movie she has shot herself. In conclusion, writers can create similar themes by using different techniques that the elements of narration can provide. Both play and film interpreted the theme of love doesn’t always paint a perfect picture but used different tools to do so. They both uses the theme with conflicts that stop Romeo and Juliet from being together, irony having Juliet fooling her family to be with Romeo, and symbolism having a poison being the reason of both their deaths for which they couldn’t expressed their love for each other anymore. The story of Romeo and Juliet is how to people fall in love with each other but rivalry is stopping them from being together. Love doesn’t always has a happy ending so their love couldn’t paint a perfect picture. |
Rewrite
A person can do the craziest things for someone they love. Most kill for love, and others die for it. The underlining theme in obvious in both Shakespeare’s plays, “Romeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann adaption movie, “Romeo and Juliet” is love doesn’t always paint a perfect picture. They used the elements of narration, conflict, irony, and symbolism to convey the same theme effectively. Conflict reveals the theme because Romeo and Juliet couldn’t be together. They couldn’t see each other based on the rivalry between their families. In both of the play and movie they had conflicts between man vs. man. In man vs. man represent the conflict between Montague and Capulet. Romeo was a Montague and Juliet was a Capulet. The two families symbolize man vs. man clearly because they didn’t like company of each other. Irony can also convey the theme. Romeo and Juliet love for each other was strong and they embrace their love in the matter of time. Romeo married Juliet but he was force to vanish from Verona for the death of Tybalt. Romeo left the love of his life, so Juliet was being force to marry someone she did not love. In this case she had foreshadowed her death if she couldn’t be with her one true love, Romeo. Situational irony was used for this theme. If Juliet wanted to be with Romeo she had to make her family believed that she was dead but really she drank poison to put her in a coma. Symbolism really developed the idea of love doesn’t always paint a perfect picture. The poison both Romeo and Juliet drank symbolized their love. Juliet knew she couldn’t be with Romeo because of their family. Juliet father was willing to have Juliet not part of the Capulet family if she wasn’t going to marry the man they wanted her to. This made Juliet drank the poison that would put her in a coma to make her family believe she was dead. When she would awaken from the coma Romeo would be with her. The ironic thing was Romeo has gotten a message saying his that Juliet was dead. Romeo knew he couldn’t live life without Juliet knowing she was dead. Romeo had emptiness in his heart. This led him to buy poison to kill himself next to Juliet. When Juliet was awakened she saw Romeo dead so his death made her stabbed herself in Shakespeare’s play but in Luhrmann’s movie she has shot herself. In conclusion, writers can create similar themes but using different techniques that the elements of narration can provide. Both play and film interpreted the theme of love doesn’t always paint a perfect picture but used different tools to do so. They both uses the theme with conflicts that stop Romeo and Juliet from being together, irony having Juliet fooling her family to be with Romeo, and symbolism having the poison being the reason of both their deaths for which they couldn’t expressed their love for each other anymore. The story of Romeo and Juliet is falling in love but rivalry is stopping them from being together. Love doesn’t always have a happy ending so their love couldn’t paint a perfect picture. |