Premonitions

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, both Romeo and Juliet have premonitions but do not act on them. Usually, when a person has a bad feeling about something, just like those Jedi masters from Star Wars, something bad actually tends to happen. I know for sure that just like everybody else, I too had a lot of premonitions. Even though I can't remember most of them, I certainly remember this one time when I was a little child who started trouble at school, two times in a row.
It was the year of 2002, which is the year when I was in 3rd grade of elementry school. There was some weird feeling that I had during the whole morning on the day when I had all of the three premonitions in a row. To begin with, I argued with my teacher, Mrs. Oh, which was caused by me making fun of a classmate's name being similar to the word "squid" in Korean. I could definitely tell that she was quite mad, but she didn't get me in trouble so I thought I was fine for the rest of the day. However, after lunch (we had several people in the class to bring the lunch tank that was filled with our lunches into the class since we didn't eat at the cafeteria), I tipped over the tank and spilled all the leftovers. This was the second time that I caused a major trouble, and that was the point where I really started worry. My teacher was seriously mad then, even though she still didn't get me in a trouble. She had me clean up the mess with some other friends, but I think now that she was extraordinarily generous. After the last period of the day, I do not know why, but I must've been crazy, because when a girl that was sitting right next to me tried to sit down on her chair, I quickly stole the chair and she just landed on her bottom. I found it very funny, and my friends found it funny also, but the girl and my teacher did not. The girl started to cry and that was when I realized that something really bad was going to happen, since this was the third time that I got my teacher get mad. Mrs. Oh came straight to me, telling me that she could've gotten a serious spine injury, and that I'm staying after school for lecture.
After school that day, I stayed after class, wrote about 3 or more pages of reprimands. I had a tutoring after school, since it was a Wednesday, so I missed the tutoring, and I believe I cried as soon as I started on my third reprimand. Now to think back the memories, I do not think it was a big deal, but back then, I must've been quite scared. I regretted, and still sort of regret what I have done that day-- making fun of a classmate's name, tipping over the lunch tank, and the chair prank. These all could be prevented by controlling my desire to do something fun but dangerous. Well, even though they were some bad things that a 3rd grader could've done, I now think that those are going to remain as just some good memories.

Lion King

The Disney animation movie, Lion King, although it is pretty much known to most people I know, is a story about a little lion named Simba who tries to forget his original identity and live happy for the rest of his life with his friends, Timon and Pumbaa. Simba is the son of Mufasa, the king of the animals, but was chased away by Mufasa's brother, Scar, after the death of Mufasa. He was found by Timon and Pumbaa, was taken care of, and became close friends. It seemed like Simba forgot who he was, or at least try to forget who he was, until he met his old lion friend, Nala. Nala tells Simba that the colony that he used to live, and where Nala and the other lions live is ruled by Scar and his hyenas, and how the land is devastated by them. Simba comes back to his senses, goes back to rescue all the other lions and get his identity back.
I believe that the creators of the movie were influenced on the "mistaken identity" part of Shakespeare's plays. Simba knew what he was meant and wanted to be, but forced to give up those dreams, but actually came back. This is somewhat similar to Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare. Hamlet is a prince of Denmark, and he struggles through his identity and finally realizes what he was meant to be. Although Hamlet has a sad ending and Lion King has a happy ending, I think the whole story is based on the same idea of forgetting one's originality and fighting to get it back.

Anticipating Shakespeare

We just finished the movie version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, originally written by William Shakespeare. The words of the actors and actresses are based on the original version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, thus they are quite hard to understand because of the dead words, and different grammar. They used words such as, "thou," "thee," "thy," which are the older expression of "you" and "your." They also use the older grammar in such way Yoda talks in the Star Wars series. These made the movie harder to understand, although I feel like I am a little bit more friendly with those kinds of words and grammar.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic play written by William Shakespeare. The play includes complicated love, magic, and humor, which makes me think that William Shakespeare was a writer who knew what the audiences are most interested at. Love had been, and still is people's great interest. Shakespeare seems like he knew this and wrote plays and poems about love, so people will watch them and read them. Plus, humor is one of the great factors of this specific play. Everyone likes to see hilarious plays and laugh, and with his great writing skills, Shakespeare created many of the most interesting plays ever known.
We will be starting to read the play, Romeo and Juliet in class. Just like everybody else, its story is well known but only some knows about the details and such. I've tried to read Romeo and Juliet my own, but the words were so confusing that I could not even finish the very first page. I do not know how much Mrs. Gilman would enjoy the two months of Romeo and Juliet. However, I'm guessing that I could like the play, considering the facts that we will find out while reading the play.