I have read the book Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. It is about two teenagers from different worlds who fall in love. Romiette is black and Julio is Mexican and their love angers many people including their parents. They are continuously threatened by one gang in particular called the Devildogs. .
I loved the plot of the story because it was like a modern Romeo and Juliet. It was interesting because it was filled with details and I was able to paint pictures of the story. The only down side of the plot was as I read it I kept comparing it to Romeo and Juliet and I doubt that was the authors purpose of writing the story. All in all though the plot interested me and I couldn't wait to see what would happen at the end. Would they die together like Romeo and Juliet, would they be split apart due to their differences or would they live happily ever after? I liked the way the story kept me tied up and wasn't just a predictable fairy tale. I loved the ending of the story because it didn't just lay everything out flat it left me imagining what would go on to happen between Romiette and Julio.
I loved the characters in the story because they all were interesting and unique in their own way. I liked the way the author used the characters to deal with delicate issues such as love, and friendship. I liked the way she kept me interested in the characters while also dealing with more serious issues such as violence and gangs. Each character's name was fitting, Romiette and Julio, ironically lovers as in Romeo and Juliet, and Destiny the psychic always predicting someone else's "destiny." .
I liked the author's style of writing and the creativity she used when writing Romiette and Julio. She combined comedy and important issues into a great book that would entertain as well as inform. She taught us that when you are in trouble sometimes it is best to get help rather than handle the situation on your own.
The Question of Reincarnation and "A Yellow Flower" There are always going to be people who question what happens to a person upon their death. In his story "A Yellow Flower" Julio Cortazar approaches this subject from a unique point of view. In this story, a man finds himself reinc...
It was in the late 1960s when "Julio 204" began writing his "tag" all around the city of New York. Soon following Julio came a Greek youth from Manhattan named Demitrius who tagged his own "Taki183" all over the city as well. ... Even though what Julio 204 and Taki 183 did in New York eventually developed into what was called by some "New York Style" graffiti, these New York writers only popularized it. ...
Such is the case when comparing Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow-Up to Julio Cortazar's short story of the same name, on which the film is loosely based. ... I believe that both Julio Cortazar's story and Michelangelo Antonioni's film succeed because they are meant to confuse one into mistrusting one's own memory. ...
Toronto scientists have developed an organ transplant procedure that could, among its many benefits, reverse diabetes. The procedure was developed by Bernard Leibel, Julio Martin and Walter Zingg at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children. The story of their work began in 1...
In the meantime, her mother was having an affair with a younger man Julio and she just found out that police is looking out for them, that they are fugitives. It turned out that Julio stole her mother's money as well as the money of family friends. ... Once she realized that she was controlled by society this crisis started and she fell in love with Julio, who was energetic and full of life. The story continues as Mark without telling Bridget went to Portugal where Julio and her mother were staying, and he brought her back home. ... The Christmas Eve was very dynamic, as Julio got arreste...
Abandoned by their girlfriends who had left for Europe, Julio and Tenoch, two inseparable childhood friends, meet a beautiful older woman named Luisa at a wedding. At first not expecting her to come and at the same time trying to be impressive, Julio and Tenoch inform Luisa that they are about to embark on a road trip to a wonderful and beautiful secret beach. ...
Since the mid-1960's, there has been a tremendous increase in the popularity and quality of Latin And South American novelists; in fact, some call this literary movement "El Boom." Mexico has produced, for example, Carlos Fuentes, who wrote The Death of Artemio Cruz. The 1967 Nobel Prize for Literat...
Agrippina was also part of a very strong family of Julio-Claudian women closely related to Augustus. The Julio-Claudian women included : Livia the wife of Augustus, Julia his daughter, Agrippina the elder his grand-daughter and Octavia his daughter. ... Modern sources such as Levick also agree that the power invested in Agrippina was truly unique considering the social context and the traditional role of women in the Julio-Claudian period, "In 51 AD Agrippina's power was certainly approaching its height, she appeared at ceremonial occasions in a gold threaded military cloak, and on a tr...
