Romeo and Juliet is a very old play. My first impression was "what is this? I don't understand what thy is saying." The majority of the people that I talked to about this book said that Shakespeare is kind of hard to understand and that I would probably have trouble with it. This wasn't necessarily the case though. I had heard that this play has a bunch of humor in it, so I thought if I could find the humor in the book then I would be able to relate it more to modern times because there was a lot of sexual references in the book which many people find humorous today. Which is why I said, easier to relate to. If you can connect concepts of books/plays to something that's connected with you, the plot becomes a whole lot easier to understand than it did in the beginning. I think I could relate to Benvolio because he's there to help a friend in need even if he doesn't want the help.
First off, I must say that even before starting this book.. I went onto Sparknotes and printed out the summaries for each scene because I wanted to make sure that I understood it fully. I read the Sparknotes summary before I read the scene that we're suppose to read because then I already have some understanding of what the plot is about and I can concentrate more on the language, and hidden meanings within the text. One night this past week, I only had about ten minutes to read the part in the book because I had other extracurriculars taking up my time. I had to speed read the part in the play and even though I read the summary of it, I still didn't understand most of what was going on. This is why reading in class as well helps me. Especially because in class we also talk about what we should be annotating for and we take pauses in the reading to analyze what's going on so nobody gets to lost. We should continue doing this process for the rest of the book because when I'm reading it sometimes I come up with different meanings of what's going on then what other kids in class comprehended it to mean.
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