Aaron's Blog

Aaron, your blog was very interesting and I am amazed by the fact that you had a premonition of an event like that so long before it happened. I have never experienced a feeling like that, but I understand why you wouldn't take yourself out of the game just because of a feeling like that. Although you wouldn't have gotten hurt if you took yourself out of the game, your coaches and teammates would have thought you were crazy. Hopefully, next time you'll listen to your gut though, because that injury sounds like it hurt pretty bad. Anyway, excellent job on your blog Aaron. I really enjoyed reading it.

Romeo and Juliet: Premonitions

Once, when I was a small, young child, My friends and I decided it would be fun to jump off the roof tops of neighboring houses and buildings. The thought off flying through the air and collapsing on the ground, performing a roll to try and keep from breaking any bones, excited us in ways we had never experienced before. We had to try it out, and as we were young, we did so, without giving it any further thought on what the consequences may be, or the injury that may occur.

It wasn't too long into it that a chill came over my body. As I was watching the third person prepare himself for a jump off the side of a two story house onto a yard of dead grass, the thought surfaced in my head saying, "Maybe this isn't a very good idea... Maybe we should stop before someone gets hurt..." I wanted to express my feelings and tell my friends my thoughts on what we were doing, but I couldn't find it in me to do so. I didn't want to be embarrassed; I didn't want to be the kid who was too "chicken" to do it. The one who got made fun of because he was too afraid to do anything or take any risks.

Sure enough though, the third boy to jump broke his ankle immediately upon contact with the ground. He screamed in pain, and I knew it was eventually going to happen, but I'm not so sure the others realized that. They had gone on blindly, without thought or reasoning backing up their actions, and they payed the consequences. I don't believe I could have changed the events of that day in any way, for those kids weren't very bright, and no matter what I said I don't think I ever would have prevented them from doing what they did.

Shakespearean Stories

I believe the movie, She's the Man, is the most like a Shakespearean play. In the movie, the character, Viola, has the school she is attending cancel their soccer program. She decides to go to her twin brother's school to play soccer for them, but they don't allow girls to play on their soccer team. So she decides to dress up as her brother and try out for the soccer team. While there, she falls in love with her roommate, Duke. But Duke is in love with another girl, Olivia, who is in love with Sebastian. Sebastian is actually Viola disguised as him though, creating a love triangle just like you see in William shakespeare's plays.

The William Shakespeare play that I would compare this movie to would have to be A Midsummer Night's Dream. They both share a similar love triangle so I would therefore say they are most alike. In the play, by William Shakespeare, you have many people who are in love with one another, but their love is all disorganized and tangled, creating a love triangle as messed up as the one in She's the Man. That is why I would say the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, and the movie She's the Man, are two, very similar stories, in which She's the Man was greatly influenced, by the play, to have a love triangle much like the other.

Anticipating Shakespeare

As I watched Shakespeare on film I could understand what was going on, but found the language to be a little difficult at times. Throughout the film though, it got easier to understand what the words meant and my vocabulary began to grow to the point that I could understand what each character was saying without really thinking about it. So far Shakespeare seems to be a very interesting person who writes great stories that I would enjoy reading or watching forever.
I am very excited to begin reading Romeo and Juliet in class next week. I have heard many good things about it and I am immensely grateful that I finally get to read it instead of just hearing about it from other people. I don't really know anything about Romeo and Juliet, although I've heard about it a lot, so getting to learn more about it will be a great experience. I don't know how much you're going to enjoy the next two months, but I'm sure I will enjoy them greatly. Learning about Romeo and Juliet is something I have wanted to do for a long time now, and I happy to finally have the chance to read it and learn about it.