Final Project
Growing Up
Eighth Grade
Four Genres by Hanna Rose Kronholm
This essay is based on the topic "Growing Up". There are four genres, a movie review, poem, e-mail and a fashion article. The e-mail relates directly to To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. The next is a poem comparing a flower to growing up. The third part is about a movie and how the main character coped with growing up and my opinion about this. Finally, the last part is a fashion article. Over the course of this essay I will tell you my opinions on growing up and things that I discovered about Scout and Juliet while we were analyzing the book and play. I hope my essay gives you a different prospective on growing up.
Sincerely,
Hanna Rose Kronholm
*****
From—Juliet@balcony.com
Subject- Advice on Growing Up
Dear Scout,
Even though we have never met I have heard a lot about you, and I feel like I have known you for a long time. I wanted to take this opportunity to give you some advice that I wish someone had given me when I was your age. When I was only 12 years old, my family arranged a marriage for me, but I had only met this boy a couple of times before. I didn’t have any feelings for him and I wish that I had communicated to my parents that I didn’t want an arranged marriage. My advice to you would be to take a couple of minutes to talk to your father about what you want in life. I met a wonderful boy named Romeo, even after I had an arranged marriage planned. I later found out that our families don’t get along, to the point in which they want to kill each other. My father forbade me from ever marrying him, but I continued to love him and we are planning to get married. I wish that our families got along because I know that if Romeo weren’t a Montague my family would accept him. So my advice to you would be to make sure you really know important information about the person before you fall in love. It could be very shocking to find out later that your father doesn’t like the person you have fallen in love with or their family. However, you should always follow your heart no matter what other people say. I hope we have the chance to meet face to face some day.
Sincerely,
Juliet Capulet
*****
Growing up is like a flower,
You start out small and helpless
Your parents feed you and nourish you with love
Just like the sun.
Like a flower it takes time to grow and be able to stand on your own,
To be able to go through storms and changes on your own.
Just like a flower you have to spread you petals,
become your own person.
Make decisions on your own because you’re not a little flower anymore,
You've grown and blossomed into a mature beautiful flower of life.
*****
Movie Review
Last Song
Starring Miley Cyrus (Ronnie), and Greg Kinnear (Dad)
4 STARS ****
In this movie Miley Cyrus, who plays a teenage girl named Ronnie, is having a difficult time at this point in her life. Her parents got divorced two years ago. One of her passions was playing the piano, following in her father’s footsteps, and planning to attend Julliard. When her parents divorced and her father moved out of the house, she quit playing the piano. She started to not care about anything, and was having a difficult time in school. Her parents then told Ronnie and her brother that they were going to spend the summer at their dad’s house. Ronnie was very upset that she had to go because she blamed her parent’s divorce on her father. Later in the summer, her dad has a seizure on the beach and he finally tells them that he has lung cancer. That is when Ronnie really starts to grow up. She starts to forgive her father and she realizes that it was just as much her mother’s fault for getting a divorce. Her brother is very upset about his dad’s illness and he knows that they are both going to lose their dad. Ronnie realizes that she has to be there for both her dad and her brother. At the end of the summer her mom comes to pick them both up and Ronnie tells her that she is staying with her dad. Her mother doesn’t agree with this decision and tells Ronnie that her dad is going to get much worse. Ronnie doesn’t listen and stays with her dad for his last months. In those couple of months that they spend together her dad tells her that it is his dying wish that she play the piano again. At first Ronnie is very hesitant, but she knows that her father is going to die soon and she wants to make him happy. She decides to play that night and as she’s playing she looks over at her dad smiling, and when she looks back up she has realized that he has dropped his glass and has died. Ronnie grew up a lot over that summer she spent with her dad. She learned how to care for someone she really loved. Along with that she learned to move on after her father’s death, not forgetting him, but keeping him always in her heart. This movie has done very well in the box office and I recommend you bring a set of tissues.
*****
Ways to Look More Grown up!
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