MY WORLD: MY FRIENDS

My best friends from school are: Monica, Pau, Saida, and Brugi.
Monica is 15 years old. She loves dancing. Her hair is blond and short, her eyes are blue.
Pau is 15 years old. He loves voley. He is very tall. His hair is short and broen and his eyes are brown. Pau always is happy and crazy.
Saida is 16 years ols. She is a short person. When I am with her i laugh a lot. Is it a happy person, but aslso she is a embararssed. Her hair is blak and long, and her eyes are brown.
Brugui is 15 years old. She is a short person. She is sporty girl, she practis kite-surf, sky and dance.She is a cray person.

MY WORLD: MONICA

Monica is my friend. She is fifteen years old. Her birthday is on 2nd of november. She is average height. Her eyes are blue and her hair is shorth and blond. She is very crazy. Monica loves dance, She dance balet, hip-hop, funky and jazz.
I met her when we had eight years old in our furst communion. In our primary school sixth year  summer we began to went reunforcement of math. When we began secundary school we went at the same clas until 4th Eso. And now we are insaparables. I spend a long time with her. With her the days are so funny.

She is incredible!

She is the most important of my life!

DIFERENCES ABOUT THE FILM AND THE BOOK

Question 1. SETTING:Places Where does the classical play and the new version take place? Example: Verona vs Verona Beach . Where are they? Which century?

In the book, the story happens in Verona, Italy in 16th century and in the film the story happens in Verona beach in the USA.

Question 2.. IMAGERY: metaphors & images :

WATER (swimming pool, beach, aquarium...) and FIRE (petrol station, fights...)

DAY and NIGHT, the MOON. What do they mean?

Romeo knows Juliet, there was an aquarius in the middle; in the scene of the balcony, they fell in the swimming pool.

The angels: Mean Juliet because she disguises of angel in the party.

Fire(petrol station, fights): Violence, enemy, hate.

Day:Friendship, life (Friar laurence with his plants), Poetry (because Romeo writes in the day.).

Night: Death, darkness.

Moon: Expectation.

Question 3.. LANGUAGE. Which characters speak in verse and which in prose? Who is the narrator?

All the characters speak in prose,the only one who speaks in verse is the TV reporter which it is also the narrator of the film.

When Romeo speak with Juliet or about her he speak in prose because he fell in love.

The narrator of the film is the girl of the news.

Question 4. THE FANCY DRESS PARTY.What's the role of the costumes the characters wear?

Juliet wear a costume from an angel, the means the innocence, and the purity

Romeo wear a costume from a knight, they represents a courtesy

Paris were a costume from a astronaut, they represent who he is in the moon

Question 5. ELEMENTS. To make the new version, basic elements have been changed. Example: swords for gun.

• The swords have been changed for guns or for other weapons.
• There is no nobility, so the prince of the city has been changed for the policeman and the noble families have been changed for rich families.
• The place of the dead of Romeo and juliet has been changed for the church, because now the people has to be buried or burned.
• The horses have been changed by cars.
• The plague that blocks friar Laurence's message in the book is changed for a post office problem.

Question 6. Other differences of the classical version and the film version

In the film version Romeo smoking. The stages are very differents. The clothes are so differences, in the classic film the clothes are the typical of the sixteenth century and in the new version the clothes are actual. In the film Mercutio is nigga and in the classic history he isn’t nigga. In the film version the nurse is so cheeky but in the classical version she is so sweet.