The Notebook / Romeo and Juliet

This trailer reminds me of Romeo and Juliet because of how much they really love one another. Noah and Ally where from two totally separate lives. Ally was wealthy and Noah was poor. In Romeo and Juliet both of them are from the same class but their parents despise one another. In the Notebook Noah and Ally fall in love but Allys parents do not want her going out with him. Ally must move away and forget about Noah. She finds someone who she ends up falling in love with and her parents very much approve. In Romeo and Juliet, Their parents would never have agreed to let them get married, and Juliet's parents want her to marry Paris who she does not love. In the end Ally comes back to Noah and they die together after living a long and happy life. Both Romeo and Juliet love each other so much they are willing to give up their lives for one another, just like ally is willing to give up everything for Noah.



* i found this trailer when i looked up the Notebook on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3G3fILPQAU

Pictures are worth a 1,000 words!

This picture was taken by myself. This picture reminds me of Romeo and Juliet because both Romeo and Juliet were not allowed to be together. Their lives were so different and yet they were alike in many ways. This pictures represents their life. Its like they have a wall between one another, or that how their parents would like it to be. Overall this picture reminded me of Romeo and Juliet because of how they are supposed to be apart yet they love each other so much that they are willing to risk their lives to stay together.

Scene Two Romantics

My favorite scene in act two of Romeo and Juliet is the balcony scene. This scene is my favorite because i love the way they speak to one another. The way Shakespeare wrote it was so poetic and romantic but yet it was still funny at parts. In this scene Romeo cannot stand to be away from Juliet so he climbs up to her balcony and starts speaking to her. At first Romeo is talking softly so Juliet does not here him. She starts talking about how she loves Romeo, when she finds him on her balcony. They talk for a while and they decide they will wed the next afternoon. I think this scene will affect both Romeo and Juliet greatly. I think this will affect them because they both want to marry one another but neither of there family's know. This could cause great problems because in the future if their parents found out they could be banished from seeing one another, and they could get in trouble because they wont stop seeing one another. I think that this scene opens up everything to go wrong from then on. Their love just is not made to work, so when they have balcony scenes like this you know that they future wont be good when their parents find out. If i were Juliet in this situation i think that i would would be very excited that Romeo came back to see me. At the same time though i would be very frightened for because Romeo snuck up on me like that. my reaction would be both confusion, frustration because i know he shouldn't be here, and love. Overall though if i where Juliet the love would win over and the scene would most likely play out for me just like it did in the book. Overall i am thoroughly enjoying Romeo and Juliet and cannot wait to read more!

Dramatic Players

One character that truly stands out to me in Romeo and Juliet is Romeo. Based off of the way he speaks and acts during scene one he seems like he would be a very dramatic person to be around. The way that he speaks about Rosalyn makes me think that he could be quite annoying. what makes him so dramatic is that he says things like teach me how not to think. He is saying that he could never forget about Rosalyn, but the second he see's Juliet he says he has never truly loved before he saw her. This seemed to show me that not only is he dramatic but he seems shallow. To jump from one girl to the next makes me think he was never really serious about the first girl so all that talk of never loving another girl apart from Rosalyn was for nothing. Although Romeo seems to have some problems so does everyone else, and overall i think that Romeo would be a kind honest person to be around. I think that Romeo looks handsome, with thick brown wavy hair and brown eyes that are as deep and thick as chocolate. now i can see why Juliet falls for him. One person that i know that i could defiantly compare Romeo to is my friend Hailee. Sometimes she over dramatizes things and freaks out over very little things that really aren't that important, but that makes her, her. I still love hanging out with her which is why i think Romeo would be just as fun to meet and get to know.