Romeo And Juliet Family Analysis
Realistic fiction has always been one of my favorite genres of literature. It’s relatable, but can also be complex and layered with different themes and ideas that we may not deal with in our everyday lives. Three of the books we recently read in class all fall into this category. They are all about teens, and their various escapades in love, adventure and danger. Another theme that connects all of these books would be the conventional family. Family is something that is built into our human nature; we as humans have always been in groups, whether it is groups of friends or a group of people related by blood. Having all of these different takes on what it means to be with your family is interesting, because all of these examples are connected,
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The biggest contrast would be the lack of forbidden love, which is present in both Romeo and Juliet and in West Side Story. Instead, this focuses on the different social classes and the gangs present within each class. The main character Ponyboy is a greaser, and his both his parents were recently killed in a car crash. Now he is in the care of his older brother, and all three of the boys in the family participate in gang rumbles and occasional crime. There is now way to know if having the parents there would greatly affect that aspect of the story, mostly because of the time that the story takes place in gangs are a part of the culture. Two of the most important things that happened in the book were when one of the Socs was murdered by one of the greasers, and when two of the greasers died in the same night. The greaser, Johnny, who did murdered the Soc. had abusive parents who had no concern whatsoever for his well-being. That being said, if the parents had loved and properly cared for Johnny then neither of those things would have happened, because one depends on the other. Dallas Winston died because Johnny died. If everyone was still alive at the end, then the book would have less substance and it would lack the things that have kept it at the top of charts for so long. It is taught in schools almost everywhere, and it is an important representation of one of the social issues happening at the time
The biggest contrast would be the lack of forbidden love, which is present in both Romeo and Juliet and in West Side Story. Instead, this focuses on the different social classes and the gangs present within each class. The main character Ponyboy is a greaser, and his both his parents were recently killed in a car crash. Now he is in the care of his older brother, and all three of the boys in the family participate in gang rumbles and occasional crime. There is now way to know if having the parents there would greatly affect that aspect of the story, mostly because of the time that the story takes place in gangs are a part of the culture. Two of the most important things that happened in the book were when one of the Socs was murdered by one of the greasers, and when two of the greasers died in the same night. The greaser, Johnny, who did murdered the Soc. had abusive parents who had no concern whatsoever for his well-being. That being said, if the parents had loved and properly cared for Johnny then neither of those things would have happened, because one depends on the other. Dallas Winston died because Johnny died. If everyone was still alive at the end, then the book would have less substance and it would lack the things that have kept it at the top of charts for so long. It is taught in schools almost everywhere, and it is an important representation of one of the social issues happening at the time