Response Romeo and Juliet (Last Reading Response of the 4th Quarter )

Silvia Soriano Reading     Response Romeo and Juliet (Last Reading Response)    March 20, 13

           While Reading the book Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, I found it interesting that how people in the old times also fought for their love as they do now in this century. How they also sometimes don't try hard enough and give  up as soon as tings get hard. They look for the easy way out of things. Romeo and Juliet is all about a forbidden love. Two young people fall in love at the wrong time at the wrong place. How they fell in love, like love at first sight. Who would try anything to keep themselves together against anything and everyone. Romeo being the only son of `Juliet people number one enemy. Juliet going to have to marry someone else falls in love with Romeo. On the other hand is their love cut short after Romeo is accused of Killing a loyal person of Juliet people? Will Juliet  believe that his innocent? Or will she have to forget about him forever?
         Juliet and Romeo meet at a party that Juliet people were hosting. Romeo and some of this other Friends/People sneaked in by wearing mask. Before the party Juliets mother has informed her that many girls her age get married already and some are even mothers. That in fact she was one too at the age of Juliet. Juliets mom ( Lady Capulet)  tells her that Paris seems to want to be in-love with her. He wants to marry her. Lady Capulet knowing that Paris is also a Capulet approves of this and wants them to get married. Was Romeo and Juliet love at first sight? Or was Juliet just looking for an excuse to not  Marry Paris? Juliet did seemed surprise when Juliets Mother brought up the idea of marriage and seemed rushed to get her ( Juliet) and Paris married, she also seemed like she didnt want to ( In the Movie). Although she went with it because her mother seemed to have loved the Idea. She would have done anything to please her mother.
   On the other hand Juliet did express her self to Romeo when they finally meet each other officially. When she found out that he was the only son of their greatest enemy, she didn't know what to do, if she didnt care about him she would have no made a big deal out of it. On the other hand she said "Ay pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer". Juliet did know what she was doing when they kissed. What she said felt like it was from the bottom of her heart.  She said that she has never done this with anyone else, he was her first everything. Love at first sight has done this to her. Maybe Juliet did fell for Romeo and maybe people thought that Romeo was just an excuse for marriage with Paris, but who are we to judge? She just feel for him at the wrong time at the wrong place. You cant chose for who you fall.
     In my opinion love doesn't have an age love doesn't have a choice, it happens to everyone. You may think its at the wrong moment , wrong place or even with the wrong person  but in the end it all comes together in the end when you are with that person. If you love that person nothing and no one will keep you apart from that person.
    In conclusion Romeo and Juliet is all about a love that is forbidden by parents.A love that is fought for by both people who want it and wont let it fade or disappear. Even if we dont think it has a happy ending, maybe it had one for them. Its not our story to judge, its just our story to understand. To enlighten us and change our minds about how we see love in this world, and how happeniess has different ways of happening                      .

Reading Response Non-Fiction

  "Girls With Eating Disorders"  3-6-13
                                                             Reading Response

                          Before reading this article, I knew that many girls around the ages of 13-18 maybe younger or maybe even older. Have an eating disorder. Trying to fit in and having friends, but because of their weigh/size they dont have it all. So they make them self's lose weight. By becoming bulimic, through up, starving themselfs. Or having any other eating disorder. When you think your not skinny enough like other girls, pretty enough like other girls, dont get guys like other girls you take/ make decisions that maybe not be the best, but you think they are. You change everything about you because you think you are the best like everyone else, either you or people make you feel that way.

                      While reading this article i found out that "Essential fatty acid status is altered in eating disorders that result in weight loss". Does this mean that its the same? Or is it just another eating disorder. When you gain weight it because your body is not getting rid of all the junk food, all the bad stuff that your body hasn't disgusted. Even if you look skinny in the outside, it doesn't mean that you are skinny in the inside too. While reading this article, I found out that when girls first start their eating disorder they have a mass of 15k in their body, after they have started with their eating disorder they have a mass of 19k. Yes they look skinny, but their health isnt as near as that. They are in risk of every sickness on the charts.A normal girl has to have 3 different kinds of fatty levels, fat levels are needed in the body, they arent as bad as everyone think. We need them to be healthy, even if we dont want them, even the healthiest people have them. Cause our body needs to sweat it needs to get rid of them.

             It takes time for girls with eating disorders, to get their health, their eating ways, their eating system back to normal. They wont be able to go back to normal in days, or hours, after there body has been use to being bulimic for months, years. Its going to be hard coming out anf telling someone you have an eating disorder, but you need to come out, so that they can help you. That they can be with you every step of the way on getting better. You wont be able to do it all alone. You`ll need everyones help. Your doctors, that will be putting you back in a health diet. Your family, that will support you emotionally. The doctors will need to tell you what kind of eating disorder you have. Cause their are more than one eating disorder in the world. Eating disorders are now more commonly. Their are anorexia nervos, bulimic nervos and simply bulimic, you need to treat each different one carefully, cause their not all the same. 

 

         Many girls do it every day, why? Cause they want to be perfect. But no one in the world is perfect, we can try. Choices are always the hardest. You do it for a wrong reason, your harming your self. Is your health really not important to you that, you dont care about it. Many girls risk their life just to try to fit in.

http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/eat_disorder.html