Romeo and Juliet and Myself

When we first meet Romeo he is sad and deppressed because he loves someone who does not love him back. I have had this happen many times to me before. But unlike Romeo, I moved on fairly fast. They were only crushes and I was very young most of the times. Also, all of the ideas we have discussed in this play are presented very dramatically, so they are hard to miss but easy to understand. I personally really like this read at home then annotate in class. Its a lot easier to notice the things that need to be annotated when they are read out loud and you have other people around you to catch what you've missed. Another thing I like about reading at home is that its a lot more relaxing, and I understand the storyline and what's going on at the moment a lot easier in silence then surrounded by people in class.

Great Expectations vs. Life

In this novel, money compared to love seemed a constant thing. Pip had to leave his family to get money, to get the woman he dreamed he only got her money and not her love, and when he finally gathered some friends and people who cared about him he was going broke. He could only have one or the other. But when he has money, his happiness has all but disappeared. So believe that the main theme of this story is to value family and friends over money. That though money is very useful, family is what keeps you going. You see this in our life as well. For example, celebrities obviously have a lot of money, and you always hear of them buying and doing crazy things with it. But there is constantly some fragment of news about how this certain celebrities life is on a downward spiral, or how this bad thing happened to them. Then there's the memoirs they are always writing about, saying they always felt lost and alone or something of the sort. This is how Pip felt when he moved to London with his Great Expectations. But then there's "normal" people like us, who just live out our lives with friends and family by our side. We may not have a lot of money (compared to those celebrities at least), but lucky for us we have people who care about us by our side. They more than make up for less than full pockets.