PLEASE HURRY # 1 - Imagine you are a reporter and write a newspaper article summarizing what’s going on in Verona, in 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare
# 2 - Refer to the Sonnet in the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet, then write a Sonnet about the Prologue.
Normal Prologue:
Two households both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge, break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean:
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life:
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows,
Doth with their death bury their parents’ life:
The fearful passage of their death-marked love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which but their children’s end nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage.
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Modern Prologue:

Our play takes place in beautiful Verona.
Two families, both of the same high rank, have recently started battling again over an ancient grudge.
Citizens’ hands have been stained with the blood of their fellow townspeople in this civil strife.
From these enemy families, a son and a daughter are destined to fall in love, sharing an unfortunate fate.
Our two-hour play will tell the sad story of their fatal love and of their parents’ bitter feuding, which only the young people's deaths could end.

in the shadow of war

the mood is annoyed. they wish sandy was there do to the job right and since they dont like they way it came out now they are annoyed.

the metamorphosis is based on an evident father-son problem. this story shows, as a result of the unthinkable transformation of the son in an insect, the deformation and destruction of the individual caused by the authoritarian and hierarchical structures of the family. the narrative begins with the transformation into an insect of enormous proportions of the traveling salesman gregor samsa, a lonely, introverted and submissive, who keeps his family with his work. when he worked, he was appreciated by everyone, but, now that he can not work, he is despised, especially by his father, but this is going to be joined, painfully for the protagonist, first his mother and, finally, his own sister, grete, with whom he had held a special relationship of complicity and affection for many years.

condemned by a deep sense of responsibility, gregor fears the reaction that his frightful aspect will incite in his family. he feels guilty for not being able to continue being useful to the beings he maintained. his own family, however, is ashamed and runs away from him, and even tyrannizes and resists him. the father, of a severe and despotic character, humiliates him and treats him with great cruelty. all his attempts to escape from the confinement to which he is subjected in his own room fail before the hostile rejection of the beings that surround him. prisoner in his lair and unable to continue playing the only function of making money he had, finally chooses, with the consent of his parents and sister, to die of starvation. with this, he is freed from a servile and unhappy existence. the family appreciates gregor while he fulfills the interests. but when he is unable to continue earning money, it becomes a problem, a shame, and family relationships begin to become tense, until coexistence becomes impossible.