Raft essay

Role: Romeo or Juiet
Audience: Advice columnist
Format: 3 paragraph letter
Topic: Relationship help
Due: 3/24/09

Role: Romeo
Topic: Relationship help
To: Advice Columnist

Dear Anybody that may be able to help me:
What is love to you? To me, it's the best feeling in the world. Love to me is the thing that keeps you going when you just feel absolutly horrible. Love makes you take normal things and look at them in an extraordinary way. But alas, love is not consistant. At one point I loved the beautiful Rosaline. Everything changed when i layed my eyes on the perfection called Juliet.

As soon as I had seen her, I instantly fell in love. Moments later, I had the great oppurtunity to kiss her. She had fallen in love with me too. Love at first site... the most magical element of life.We decided we'd get married. It would be the greatest decision of my life. If it wasn't for one major issue. Our families. I come from the family Montague and she is a Capulet. Our two families HATE each other.

For a while now there's been this fued has been going on, and I hate it. And as things could not get any worse, I killed one of the Capulets. Now, nobody besides trusted loyal friends know of the love between me and Juliet. If our families were to find out what's going on, they would surely ruin everything. I have been banished because of the murder I committed, but Juliet is to remain here. Any advice on what i should do?

~ Hi, my name is Juliet and I’m 13. Lately, i've gotten myslef in one huge predicament. For a while now I’ve become madly in love with a man named Romeo Montaque. He’s all I’ve ever wanted and could ever ask for in a husband. He’s sweet, simple, & delicate; the kind of man you can only imagine in your dreams! We have been secretly seeing in each other for awhile now and i think its time we get married, make it official.
But there’s one issue, our families seem to despise each other, making it nearly impossible to be together. We were goin to go get married but what would my families think of us? Could our relationship maybe heal our families' issues or make the situation worse?
I really am in love with him and want to sharethe rest of my life with him. To make the situation even more complicated, he has been banished for killing my own cousin, Tybalt. At this point I’ve become very confused and lost, on what to make of the situation. Any advice?

Juliet Capulet, 13
Verona, Italy

Dear Editor,


Greetings my name is Juliet and I am a young woman who is in search for help. I need some help in how to deal with a grave problem I have which is how my parents aren’t allowing my love with this amazing individual, Romeo. I truly love him and would like the rest of my life to be spent with his. Here’s my story, I come from the Capulet family and one of our family’s rival is the Montague which is Romeo’s family. Since he comes from the Montague family we are bound to never be acquaintance nor lovers. Our family says we would be cursed if we where to get married yet we are profoundly in love with each other. Each time I see Romeo my heart beats like sound of the hummingbird’s wings flapping. I don’t think I’ll be able to live without being with him, my Romeo. Oh my Romeo he be thy only lover whom I will give me body and soul too.

Please to whom ever, I ask for your advice I am in search for a solution to my problem. Both our families are not willing to make an exception for our true love yet we know that we are bound to be together for eternity. I love him and I am in search for what shall be my solution. I do not care how I can accomplish my marriage with Romeo but hear this I am willing to go to the heavens for him. I really would like to know what you believe in my situation because I want to find a way to surpass this problem with my Romeo. Me and him can live happily ever after if our families didn’t have this rivalry between them.

Ask yourself a few questions if you where in my shoes and tell me how you would deal with this problem. I always wonder if the way we are trying to deal with this is the right way or not, or if there is a better solution. If you had found your true love and no one accepted it because of family values what would you do. My life with my family is great and all but then again the restrictions I have and my arrange marriage is not acceptable to me. I just wish my family was different so my true love could actually be with me, that would be perfect yet I don’t know I can make this dream come true.


Sincerely,
Juliet

Dear Reader,

My daughter has fallen in love with the son of my enemy. I don’t know how to snap her out of her love story. I cannot accept this at all. It wasn’t predictable in the first place! I mean, every day I notice her sneaking out, but I don’t do anything about it. If the situation turned big, I don’t know what matters I would have to take next. If my husband knew about this, everything would be blamed on me for not doing anything in the first place, but I know where she is coming from because I was in the same position as her when I was younger, and I didn’t do anything about it.

Now, I am writing to ask for advice on what to do. I went to my nurse, but she wasn’t any help at all. I can’t find the words to explain all of the options I have left to choose. Which honestly, I barely have any. The feud won’t dim down anytime soon and I refuse to resolve any conflict with my enemy, the Montague. I get this queasy feeling on the thought of trying to figure out what to do next but I have nothing to move on to.

I want to make my daughter, Juliet happy but I can’t do it the worse way possible, by allowing her see this Romeo. There’s another man in the picture who is in love with my daughter. But obviously she isn’t in love with him. I don’t see why though. He is charming, wealthy, and handsome and he asked for her hand in marriage. Juliet is aware of this but she refuses to marry him. Please help me. I would gladly appreciate it. Thank you.


Sincerely,
Lady Capulet