Romeo and Juliet and books I've read before

Currently I am reading two books, in class I am reading “Romeo and Juliet” and out of class I am reading, “Perks of Being a Wallflower”. While reading my book recently I realized that characters in books I’ve read could easily relate to all characters in “Romeo and Juliet” and other Shakespearean performances. I find it strange because Shakespeare wrote these plays in the 1600s and now in 2000s you can still relate to situations and characters in the plays. I later thought more about this and thought maybe this is why it’s considered a classic.

 Plays have been made since before Shakespeare but the thing is that Shakespeare writes about relatable topics, even though its 400 years later we still have similar morals and thoughts as these characters. For Example in Romeo and Juliet one might think that it’s different because they have swords speak in long sentences. However you could also think about how similar Montague’s and Capulet’s are to current gangs.

While reading Romeo an Juliet I tried to find the characters with most similarities to modern day movie and book characters. In my opinion Mercutio is the most relatable character, he is funny, nice, and a bit like screwed up. There’s always that one character in movies that tends to be the one telling inappropriate unneeded jokes like Barney on how I met your mother or Seth Rogen’s character in 50/50 (I could go on). Mercutio however is also relatable because he’s normal. He doesn’t let his friend by on everything and he’s not always partying. When he gets stabbed his personality switches completely to this angry character with so much to say in so little words and no will to speak. This character is by far the most relatable because we’ve all been that person who gets hurt and cant speak words yet have the need to blame everyone for what happened to you.

Romeo and Juliet could be related to many topics, books, movies, situations and more and its important to acknowledge that.

Perks of Being a Wall Flower

I recently started reading "Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky. So far I love the book and i can tell that i will like it more as I continue. Stephen is in my eyes the ideal writer. He writes about a easily imaginable character, in imaginable situations with imaginable solutions. So far in the 40 or so pages i have read, although i love the book, nothing much has happened. First we are introduced to this character Charlie who has recently moved to high school. We learn his previous friend killed himself but in his new life he has started to move on from his old friend and grow up.
       In the text charlie is fitting in to the "new high school world" but i think theirs more than just fitting into high school i think its fitting into the world. So far we've already seen him trying to talk to girls, forming opinions on the world, and more things you grow into. This is something that me and most kids could relate too. at our age kids start becoming more then just kids. When we were kids we would listen to our parents music, watch what's on TV, eat what's on our plate and agree with everything that our parents stood for in politics. Yes once and a while we would say we didn't like broccoli but no one listened, we still were pretty simple we ate, we slept, and we copied what everyone said. However at a certain age this changes, we start becoming a part of the world in all different ways. We become independent and start to branch off from what we thought before and start to formulate new opinions.
        In "Perks of Being a Wallflower" Charlie is slowly growing up. His friends patrick and sam are their too help and guide him but he is slowly realizing his place in the world and I am exited to find out how it ends up.