Romeo and Juliet

So. I honestly do not have a book yet..... which is not good. I've been looking but there is nothing that has really caught my interest, so it looks like i'm going to have to write about romeo and Juliet. SO because this whole story (play) revolves around many many characters... I am going to look at some character prompts. So this play and its characters are working through this big main problem that no one between the two families seems to be getting along. They get in so many fights their king had to tell them that if they cause any more chaos, that they would die. So you can probably imagine that one member from each family ( Romeo and Juliet) fall in love with each other. I mean what can be more chaotic than mixing a love relationship with a hate relationship.

I have noticed that so far the characters are dynamic. To start off with, Juliet has completely changed her mind on having a love life. When her mom introduced her to the idea of marriage, she confidently shared that she was not planning or even simply thinking about someone to marry. Then when meeting Romeo at the party, she felt a lot of affection with him, and even kissed him. She is very centered and obedient as well, and she ended up kissing Romeo, which i think was different than her previous character. Secondly Romeo had his mind set on this one women who was a nun, and he had no chance with. That all changed as soon as he laid eyes on Juliet. He had his own love at first sight experience. I love the play though and this is honestly my favorite this I've ever learned in English and its actually fun! I cant wait to watch and reenact more of it.

Finishing a long way gone

I thought that A Long way gone was a great book, because I honestly love the bloody setting. I am a fan of the walking dead, which if you don't already know is extremely graphic. I feel like having the story come directly from the person who wrote it, makes the story so much better and helps the reader DIRECTLY connecting with him. This has actually influenced me to read more memoirs. Although it was hard to connect with Ishmaels situation, I was able to connect with his personality because he was able to get in detail with how he felt about him wanting to make a change. I was able to see the connection of his thought process and how he portrayed it to the public.

I feel like he kept me reading by keeping suspense. Just like as nights went by for him where he didn't know what was happening next, I didn't know what was going to happen in the next chapter. I would honestly lay on my mind until i fell asleep, as to where he would be put next, or he may run into next that might just save his life. I feel so connected with him although I don't know him, and I feel like reading this actually changed me. I hope to read more memoirs, and recommend this to any high school students that are looking for a graphic yet suspenseful read.

A long way gone text to society

Jenna and I chose to read a long way gone by Ishmael bach. This is a memoir about how a young man in sierra Leone, was forced to become a child solider at such a young age. He was forced to kill the innocent, and leave many loved ones behind. He never went back to see his family after he became a solider. This experience later influenced him to experiment with drugs. These drugs helped him stay awake, which was needed to become a solider in such harsh conditions. Imagine trying to live in the conditions that he did. Could you leave your whole family behind knowing that they were going to die. Leaving so that maybe YOU would live. Ishmael was careful to never become a rebel and to never attract the rebels. This book made me relate to todays teen drug abuse issues that we still have today. I have had hundreds of assemblies over teen drug abuse in the past years, and its all over. Its from school to at home that you see this conflict. This also helped me relate to James in the Color of water, because both Ishmael and James when times ended up getting rough, they experimented with drugs, almost ruining their lives.

There is a link that connects you to learn more about child solider. This link is actually like a summary of Ishmaels life. It talks about him specifically, and it is much like an interview. Its like a new voice outside of his book, and it helped me clarify some questions I had about certain experiences, and I would recommend it to anyone, who is reading or has read a long way gone. Also there was a statistical link, concerning teen drug abuse. This connected James's story with Ishmaels, and shows that they are not the only one. Both of them, when going through that rough time in life, did the same thing with drugs, just like teens do today. Both of these links gave me more incite about what's really happening in my book and gave me some reasons why, making both of them very helpful.