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Monologue Of Romeo And Juliet

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I stumble into English about 5 minutes late, clutching three binders and feeling the stares of the class on me. I awkwardly walk to the back corner, sit down, and put my stuff on my desk. I look up to see Mrs. Kobayashi walking to the front of the room. She's a cool teacher. She lets people call her Mrs. K, but her name's not that difficult to pronounce. She lets us listen to music and class, and sometimes she plays some of her own. She has good music taste. She likes Fall Out Boy and Green Day! And she wears awesome leather jackets on Friday, when the teachers are allowed to dress casual. "Hello, class. Today we're going to start reading the play Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare," she announces with a smile. "God, that play is so stupid." I speak up, knowing this is the only class where i could get away with this. "It starts off with a teenager PROPOSING to a FUCKING TWELVE YEAR OLD he met at a dance just because she was hot, and she SAID YES, and then they insisted on getting married even though they could get killed even for just dating, and then Juliet, for an indiscernible reason she told no one about, decided to play pretend and make everyone think she had KILLED HERSELF, and then Romeo, without even checking if she was, you know, actually dead, ACTUALLY killed himself. Romeo and Juliet were just so utterly …show more content…

It's about how people who are in love will find a way to be together no matter what! Forbidden love stories are beautiful!" Annoyed, he brushes strands of dark hair out of his blue eyes. His näive, stupid, beautiful, green-blue-yellow eyes that sparkle when he talks on and on about the boring, cliche, all-too-perfect love that only exists in movie screens and young adult novels, all starry skies and picnic baskets and she-looked-into-his-eyes-and-suddenly-he-was-falling kind of shit. All the things that don't belong to people like me. Or maybe it's just because he sits next to the

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