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Allegory story

March 1, 2013 / / 0 Comments

One afternoon I was walking home from a long day at school which was really boring in fact but I was looking forward to meeting my new foster parents. It was the first evening I would be sharing with them so I was eager to get there. I had never actually spent time at their house either, so it would be nice to walk around and get used to my new home. I was walking home with my mates, and I popped into the shops to get some treats for me and my new family. I had some pieces of homework which were due in for tomorrow but I’m sure I will not have to do any of it

I was approaching my new home, on a quiet street with a couple of semi-detached houses across the road. With butterflies in my stomach, I rang the door bell.

The door opened and the first sight I saw was the enormous front room, chandeliers dangling from the ceiling and then there was my foster mum, Chole. “Good afternoon darling, welcome to your new home” we’re the first words which were said to me, i felt like home, a massive smile raised upon my face. I walked through the door, i buckled in as there was a small step, but fell into the arms of Chole. She giggled and put me back up straight and pointed in the direction of the front room, as she closed the door.
I walked in and came to a stop, i looked around and it was a beautiful house, fun entertainment all in this one room. As i stared, i saw a figure in the corner of my eye, in the garden there was my foster dad Jack. He came running in and greeted me, he was in his football kit, an Arsenal football kit with Jack Wilshere on the back, i laughed, seeing a grown adult in a football kit with studs and shinpads on is hilarious. “Hello hello hello, how are you today” he looked like he was up for a laugh and i was excited.
I was shown into my room and they left me to settle down, hearing my dad and his mates shouting at each other whilst playing football made me smile constantly. My room was a basic room, bed, wardrobe, tv and i was happy

The next day is was talking to my best mates about my new home, i told them not to share the story around to others as i don’t want people knowing I’m adopted, they all said they wont confidently as we walked into school.
At lunch time, i had a few people come towards me and started pointing their fingers at me whilst laughing. When i saw this, i knew what happened, one of my closest friends has told people in the year above, i was devastated.
I walked home all by myself and i arrived at the front door, i knew i had a dad who was bubbly and a mum who was caring, so i knew i will spill the beans soon. I reached for the door bell but pulled my hand back, i took a deep breath, wiped my face and rang it.
5 seconds of intense waiting, I saw the door handle turn, I tried to put a smile on my face, so I looked quite weird. The door opened and there was Chole(mum). ” good afternoon darling, how are you today” I shrugged my shoulders, I replied “fine” and headed upstairs straight to my room, it was a bit rude me not talking to her but I couldn’t just figure out why one of my closest friends would tell someone else.
Couple hours later, the same group of friends that I told my secret to knocked on my front door. My dad answered and called me down, I said I didn’t want to go out so they left.
At dinner time we watched the football, which made me mic happier, it was an champions league match against Montpellier when I received a text message saying ” hey, how are your new foster parents, are you having a good time with your fake mum and dad” I read this, and started to cry, my dad didn’t notice Ashe was shouting at the tele but my mum came a rapped her arms around me. “What’s wrong, your never like this” I replied “I know but I’m getting bullied” after I said that the whole room went silent, my dads face was stunned, my mum went into tears, it wasn’t a good evening
We all went to bed early that night, and I woke up to see my dad in a suit, I’ve never seen him in a suit, but I knew where this was heading. “Dad what you doing, your not coming to school with me!” “I think I’m am son, I’m not tolerating this, and your teachers need to stop it”

We’re got out the car, and headed for the school entrance, everyone was staring at me and then the shouting came. ‘Fake mummy and daddy’ ‘No real mum’ ‘you adopted s***’ were all called out, the whole school new of this, and I knew I would have to go to a different school after this

Romeo and Juliet essay

January 6, 2015 / / 1 Comment

The concept of fate, the idea that some one, a power perhaps greater than our own, controls every aspect of our lives.

The reason that Romeo is attending the Capulet’s ball is entirely down to fate. Entirely by chance, a servant of the Capulet’s had asked him to read an invitation list for a Capulet ball (the servant could not read himself), `But I pray, can you read any thing you see..’ At this time Romeo is desperately in love with a girl called Roseline and attends the party in the hope of seeing her. However he meets Juliet and falls in love with her. This is an example of Romeo and Juliet were destined to meet and destined to fall in love. It also is an example of events in the play `fall into place’. When Juliet is talking to her nurse after meeting Romeo she is desperate and dramatic. She has barley known Romeo but yet she is desperately in love with him, ‘If he be married my grave be my wedding bed.’ She means that she will die if she can not marry him which is a ironic anticipation of events to come.

This will have appealed to the audience as again everything will have fallen  into place. She continues to talk about how her love will kill him, `Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.’ It is again ironic as this actual does happen as the reason Romeo dies is because of their love for one another. The beginning of the play is filled with reference of fate and fortune. It is so that when Romeo and Juliet’s outcome is revealed it is linked back to the earlier scenes and everything falls into place. The fight scene in Act 3 is crucial turning point in the play. It changes the direction of the play. In Elizabethan times it was not unusual for men to fight in the street and kill each other in sword play. It was also not uncommon for the guilty party to be killed or banished. The fight scene has many consequences that develop later in the play. A fight between Romeo, Mercuito and Tybalt erupts on the street in which Mercuito, Romeos friend, is killed. Before he dies he curses both families, `A plagueo both your houses’.

By doing this he is probably hoping that the two families would end their bitter feud. In a twist of fate a plague does effect both houses, in Romeo and Juliet’s death but it reunites the two families in their grief. This is a clear act of fate and an typical Elizabethan audience would have enjoyed this. Shakespeare knew when writing what appealed to his audience. When Romeo realises what has happened he seeks vengeance and kills Tybalt. He realises what will happen and how things will never be the same again, ‘The day’s black fate on moe days doth depend, this but begins the woe others must end.’ He knows that the events on that day will change his life and things will never be the same. He continues in saying, `I am fortunes fool.` he knows that events that follow are out of his control, everything lies in the hands of fate.

He must let fate run it’s course. He is right in saying this as it separates the young lovers, Romeo is banished. This almost certainly causes their deaths. It leaves the audience wondering if things could have been different. Could Romeo and Juliet have stayed together if Romeo hadn’t killed Tybalt” Throughout the whole play Romeo and Juliet constantly tempt their own fate. ‘Give me Romeo and when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars.’ she is tempting fate and her outcome. When Romeo hears of Juliet’s death he knows it is down the fortune and destiny. He proclaims ‘I defy you stars’ which simply means that he refuses to believe what destiny has dealt him. `Romeo and Juliet’ was a classic play during the Elizabethan era and still remains popular today.

Romeo and Juliet’s untimely death could be down to a number of things, their parents feud or the haste of their relationship but I believe it was entirely down to fate. They met entirely by fate and immediately fell in love. They begin a relationship plagued with bad luck and then tragically both die. I believe their lives had been planned and there is nothing they could do to change the course of their destiny. It is obvious that Shakespeare had intended everything to happen for a reason and decided that fate would rule their lives. It is a format that would appeal to an Elizabethan audience. Scenes from earlier in the play are linked into scenes later on. For example, when Mercuito curses both families a curse actually does occur, in Romeo and Juliet’s death.

Lecture to the class

November 27, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Me and Joe Muncur have decided to do a lecture to the class about the interpretations in the film Romeo and Juliet

Some interpretation:

Swords-Guns

Verona City-Mexico City

Tybalts death from sword fight-Car crash and shot

Me and Joe will be looking into these interpretations and more, why they would change thing, is it for us to have a better understanding on what’s going on or just to make the film more interesting

Metaphor work

November 22, 2012 / / 1 Comment

In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare using a wide range of language throughout the play which when you closely analyse the thrase, it makes perfect sence

When Romeo is talking to Mercutio before the Capulet party, he keeps on talking about his love Rosealine on how perfect she is and he will never love another lady apart form her, and then Mercutio tells him that dreams do not always come true and he uses a metaphor “And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes”. In that he is saying that dreams are like wind, they can blow past you and let you down

By describing dreams like wind, he is saying dreams can fly away so quickly and hurt us badly anbuy saying this, Romeo has realised that he’s wasted so much time on a single girl when there are more out there

 

 

Metaphor in Romeo and Juliet

November 22, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Your task is to identify the metaphor present in the following excerpt and then write a paragraph that explains the metaphor and its effect on the meaning of the passage it is embedded in.

MERCUTIO

True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.

Feel free to watch the presentation again from this lesson to remind you of how to approach a passage that contains a metaphor:

 

Year 9 English – Shakespearian Language from Edutronic.net on Vimeo.

What i will be doing

November 19, 2012 / / 1 Comment

What i will be doing in lessons are 2 activities with Sir and 1 lessons by myself

What Im doing with Sir is the Analytic Essay which we all have to do

I also would like to do the Dramatic Monologue with Sir because i like speaking aloud in class and especially from a script from Romeo and Juliet

The 1 activity I would like to do without Sir and in a group is “Film a scene from Romeo and Juliet”. This will be good fun and you are working with your peers and it will be enjoyable editing our work and make it to the best standard

Not what to say, How to say!

November 16, 2012 / / 1 Comment

” these violent delights have violent ends” Said Frair Lawrence when Juliet and Romeo were getting married . He is saying that these to lovers are having a delightful lives but ,marrying each other will end in misery and death

Fate is revealed in Romeo and Juliet in many ways,but one of the most important is through the plot device of co-incidence,for example Romeo only found his true love Juliet from a co-incidence when him and Benvolio were walking down the street and luckily saw a servant who couldn’t read or write

 

About Me

December 2, 2014 / / 0 Comments

My name  is Tariq Cole I am 14 years old  I go to The London Nautical School. My sporting experience is very colorful from ballet to fencing to football to swimming. over the next couple weeks i am going ti improve my muscular strength.