Monologue

   My interviewee was my cousin, Nicole Ortiz. She's seventeen. She was wearing an orange blazer and a white tee underneath it. She has brown hair with blond highlights. She's sitting down on my bed. She's holding a cup of water. She's very calm.


I shouldn't have regrets (flips hair)
but I do have one
it was a big mistake because I don't usually do these things
but I was very upset,
people were spreading rumours
she was a very good friend of mine
so it added on to my anger
we got into a very big argument
it turned into a physical fight
I later on found out that she didn't do what everyone was saying she did
it was big mistake
I probably should've asked her about it
I falsely accused a friend
but I was very upset

Interview: Coming of Age

Q1: How did your biggest mistake affect you?

A1: Um.. my biggest mistake affected me because it taught to always think twice about the decisions you make but I also learned that .. even though you make a mistake you learn from it.

Q2: What did you learn from your mistake?

A2: I mean I've learned something different from every mistake but every mistake kinda reassures me that even though it might of been a mistake life still- life still goes on and it will eventually accommodate to it, so it's not the end of the world but you shouldn't, like, let it affect you negatively forever.

Q3: If you could take back anything that you done, what would you take back?

A3: *sighs* I would take back- I mean I really wouldn't say that I would take back too many like mistakes because I shouldn't have any regrets but if I had to chose a certain mistake it would be falsely accusing a... good friend of doing something and I wasn't sure if she had done it or not but I was very upset that I found out that she did and we got into a really big fight, a physical fight, and then I found out that it wasn't true, so it was a mistake; I probably should've asked.

Q4: What made you realize that you weren't a kid anymore?

A4: Uh.. what made me realize that I wasn't a kid anymore was when I started having my own responsibilities and everything wasn't... what my parents did, what my parents said, I had to start doing things for myself. Um making sure that I did things on time and I did what I had to do for myself and then I started realizing that I needed money for my own, necessities  and everything, um when I had to start getting job applications on my own, and college applications and stuff like that.

Q5: Did you encounter any difficulties while growing up?

A5: I did encounter difficulties because it's not something easy to accept that you need to do things for yourself and sometimes you're really lazy to take on responsibilities and you need to learn new skills, you need to learn personal things like time managements and stuff like that so it is really difficult and sometimes you may fail and that's why you make mistakes but you learn from them and you continue to grow up and get older. 

ROMEO AND JULIET REVISED ESSAY

   There are a lot of similarities between Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and real life, one of them is how much parental involvement is in a dating relationship. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet sneak around trying to see each other without letting anyone see them  because that would lead to a lot of drama. Also the fact that Romeo and Juliet don't tell their parents about their relationship just makes their relationship more difficult. There's no parental involvement in Romeo and Juliet which makes there relationship harder. The same thing happens with most teenage dating relationships in our generation and it also makes their relationship harder and forces them to sneak.
  Throughout the book Romeo and Juliet have to sneak around to see each other because they don't want there parents to see them. This is shown in act 2 scene 2,"And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsman find thee here." This shows that Juliet thinks that Romeo could be killed if he's seen with Juliet because they are suppose to hate each other. Similar things like this happen in real life, usually teenagers don't tell their parents about their dating relationships and then they sneak around to see each other. This is seen almost everyday in lives of  most teenagers. This shows a similarity between Romeo and Juliet and real life in a dating relationship.
  Also, in Romeo and Juliet there is not acceptable behavior if children and parents do not see eye to eye. This is shown in act 3 scene 5 where Capulet says,"Speak not; reply not; do not answer me. My fingers itch." In this act Capulet threatens to kick Juliet out of her house if she doesn't marry Paris, this shows that if Juliet can not have her own opinion she has to do what her parents tell her to do. This is also seen in real life because most of the time when parents tell there kids to do their kids have to obey. Even though in real life parents won't go as far as kick their children out of the house but their would always be a type of punishment.
   Overall, Romeo and Juliet has a lot of things in common with real life when having to do with parental involvement in a dating relationship. Some teenagers just don't like telling their parents because there parents might not think that the person their child is dating is the right person to date and that also is a big issue in Romeo and Juliet. I also think that Romeo and Juliet is a good story because if you look at all the similarities between Romeo and Juliet and real life you'll probably see that most of Romeo and Juliet is very realistic and that for some people these kind of things do happen.