romeo and juliet

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Characters

In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is one of the main characters. He is interesting, and in my point of view, a drama queer. Ups and downs take over his love life and he is sort of a baby. Meeting Romeo in person would be quite an interesting experience since his vocabulary is so "advanced" and he is such a charming man.

Romeo reminds me of pretty much every guy in my high school career. This is because he gets nearly obsessed with a girl but still can find himself with another. For example, Romeo claims he's in love with Rosaline when he turns his love with Juliet into this passionate of a play. I never will be able to picture his actual looks due to his weirdness.

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After seeing the movie Twilight this picture reminded me of the famous balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. The similarity of the two scenes is that they both take place with the male character in a tree,unaware of anything around him except the woman he loves. The difference in the two is that in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is looking down at Romeo who is in a tree looking up, and in Twilight Edward is in a tree looking down at Bella. Both couples have intense love in their eyes in both pictures.

Premonitions

I can not remember any premonition that I have had myself. I do remember my mom telling me about a premonition she had when her dad, my grandpa died. Her premonition happened after a phone call she received on a beautiful summer morning. It was Tuesday morning about 8:10 on June 24th. She answered the phone and it was a woman's voice; that woman had a quick message of "Jan, can you come to your mothers house, she needs you." After hanging up the phone, my mom had a premonition that her father had a problem with his heart and maybe she needed to take my grandma to the hospital to see my grandpa. He did have quadruple bypass surgery about two years earlier and because of this, the thought that he could have had a fatal heart attack did not even cross my mom's or grandma's mind. Also, it was a beautiful, sunny day with blue skies and birds singing... Death did not fit into this day at all. However, when she reached the door at my grandma's house, she was greeted by a woman coroner who told her that her father, my grandpa, had died of a fatal heart attack while taking his morning walk on the golf course they lived on. It was almost surreal that on this beautiful morning something so horrible could happen... How could the whole world not stop for this awful moment in time? The coroner said my grandpa was most likely gone before he hit the ground. A cut on his nose and the way his blood coagulated on it gave her assurance of that information. Furthermore, my mom told me about something amazing that happened about two days after this tragedy. A person who worked with my dad was talking at work about how one of his neighbors found a man on Capitol City Golf Course lying on the ground and called 911. My dad told him that the man being described was his father in law! The man reassured my dad that the paramedics worked on my grandpa for about 15 minutes and they did everything they could to try and revive him. Just knowing that people tried to help him made my mom and our whole family feel better. I never got to meet my grandpa since unfortunately, this tragedy occurred on June 24th, 1986

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Aight. So heres the deal, yo:

English; its great to know, its fun, and the people in the class are very awesome (Including Mrs. Gilman! She's BOMB.COM!)

So far as a part of my freshman year, i'm in this awesome english class; thats what i'm writing about. This class is a very welcoming class, i'm never scared or nervous to be a part of it; I feel quite loved, if i must. There are certain things about this class that make it outstanding from others i've been in. Using this blogging server makes everything so much easier, as most of us students probably spend a great amount of time on the totally necessary COMPUTER. The reading aloud in a "scripted" form is one of my favorite things about this class, as we all are a part of the discussion, we all know whats going on, and it gets us ahead in the book! I really love reading certain characters aloud or even just reading the book aloud, as i always enjoy putting lots of expression and try to "make the character be pictured in others minds". (Good luck with that, eh?) If you keep up on reading the assigned book for each due date, this class is going to be fine and never something you have to worry about. Even if your work ethic isnt even...... a work ethic, the reading is pretty easy and the intense parts of the book are awesome. The tests and quizzes are a bit difficult sometime for someone like me, who sometimes forgets that the little things matter a lot. (Even if your girlfriend pestures you about how the little things are most important!) The energetic, intense, exciting parts are quite a hit of mine, but I tend to forget more and more as the minutes pass by; this being an example of something that will improve throughout my year in english! A major necessity I need to succeed is the comprehension of books. I can't remember most of the things I read and forget; needing those for a quiz or something of that sort... I've been trying to figure out ways to get better at this but its a bit difficult, much. Okay, i'm talking about a bunch of junk thats not getting me extra points. Get back on track Regan!!!.... All right, so more about what I like about this english class is the teacher. Uh, I think her name is.... MRS. GILMAN!!!! She is by far, the BEST teacher I think i'll have throughout high school. I know I have about another thirty teachers to experience, but she's just amazing. She really teaches the stuff well but still makes it fun for us. She's helpful, tolerant of idiots, and funny. That's a definitely more than decent teacher right there, folks. Also, she has this weird container thing that says "ashes of bad students" or something like that, but its empty because like I said, she's tolerant of idiots! Maybe it belongs to Mr Curtis. I just don't know. But anyways, I also like how we organize notebooks that we call this awesome scientific smarty pants name "Journals". This makes finding our old assignments and keeping our current ones safe and organized quite easily; and it's just really awesome, I think. I feel bad for the Mrs. Gilman because she only has five minutes before her dreadful third period class to eat grub and drink some drank. Also, Mrs. Gilman is very smart as today she said to me "You and Jack are not going to be sitting together for very long". That made me sad but then, Jack and I are quite obnoxious together and we always talk about random things and make random noises and we say "Tickle Of" quite a bit. We also have weird words that mean certain things like "Of" means "Me" and "Ugh" is always included in our daily vocabulary. Well, my computer's battery is about to die, so I guess i'll just have to ditch this joint. I highly doubt i'll get any extra credit for this because I sound like parrot on speed, but yeah.
It was a pleasure talking with you.
Goodbye.

Sincerely,
Regan Westlund

Themes

In To Kill A Mockingbird, I think the theme(s) would be racism and prejudice views on others. In chapters 17-19 during the trial, Tom Robinson is proved innocent. There is even proof that Bob Ewell is guilty for assaulting Mayella Ewell; but still Tom Robinson is the suspected "bad guy" only because of his race. An example showing the quality of respect blacks deserve in this novel is on page 180 when Ms. Ewell says: "I said come here, nigger, and bust off this chiffarobe for me, I gotta nickel for you". This is the only time Mr. Robinson received pay for his generous work. He still worked happily for her, never getting anything back for it, only because of his generosity.
Another theme is the use of the "Killing a Mockingbird" metephor. Mr. Tom Robinson is being wrongfully accused for raping Ms. Ewell when its proven that Mr. Ewell is the suspect. A Mockingbird is absolutely innocent and does nothing to harm us human beings, nor acts as a necessity. So, if we were to kill one, we would be putting life out of misery for being themself; harming no others. Tom Robinson absolutely does not deserve this punishment which would be death penalty, and Mr. Ewell should be to blame.