Final edited version of Exit Here blog post !!

I was definitely looking forward to writing a blog post on this book, I just started reading the book called Exit Here yesterday, and I already am beyond into it. It gives you like a slap in the face of what reality is past high school and even for some in High School, and what happens to those kids that are the gods in school, past school and how its all "just a name" while your stuck in school.  There's this boy named Travis and he was the big shot in school and he had girls falling head over heels for him then while he was in High school he started using drugs and after a while he was a druggie wand he isn't so much of that god anymore and they say that the drugs ruined him, it shows you how people change and goes inside their heads. Travis and all of his friends are druggies and as I read this I began to realize each character symbolizes what happens to people when they become a druggie and all the paths that you take the chance of going down when you make the bad choice to become a druggie.

Also , when he came home from getting kicked out of college he had to go to dinner with his family and met this girl who was the waitress and I think she's going to turn out to be a huge character in this book, because there's always that character that inspires the character and makes them change or helps them . Now that Im rewriting this I am starting to realize that Travis' father reminds me of Capulet and how he treated Juliet and that just like in Romeo and Juliet whenever Capulet didn't get what he wanted with Juliet he would go out of his way to try and intimidate Juliet to get what he wanted and thats exactly what Travis' father did to him to try and help get his life back on track and put him back in college. 

This book also makes a huge statement on how drugs impact everyone around you and its not just you thats going through the fight with drugs. I always saw those unrealistic above the influence commercials but after I read most of Exit Here it got me thinking that maybe the commercials aren't so realistic and it made me not  only have a new view of the commercials but the commercials gave me a better view of my book. I remember watching one of those commercials and my mom turning to me and saying "katie if you ever need to talk to me about something like this, you know you can speak with me." and it made me think going back to what I said about Travis' father that his parents never really asked how he was and even made any attempt whatsoever to what was going on in his life and tried to truly help him, sure they offered therapy and things like that but it was never something they really wanted to do and it made me realize that his parents might've been another reason why he pushed himself to do drugs and to ruin his life, maybe to get his parents attention or maybe to prove a point but I really think the only person who knows this is Travis. 

There's not too much more I can say about this book right about now , but Im completely looking forward to reading more of this book and writing another amazing blog post all about it, and I hope it gives you as big of a reality check it gave me !! (: 

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In my class we fortunately got to watch an amazing movie called romeo and juliet by Baz Learman and it is definately one of my favorite things we've done in class so far this year.


Most of you should be familiar with the powerful and thundering story of a young boy named romeo who is a montegue who stumbles into love at first sight of Juliet who is a capulet, two rival families. You could see the stars in Romeo's eyes, but is this really love ? thats a question that popped up quite frequently in the story, In my opinion I believe it is, as young as they are. I believe you are never to young to fall in love , personally I think teenagers have a better perspective of what love truly is and its exactly what Romeo and Juliet had. Back in the times that Rome and Juliet were, they had to be married and have kids by a person their parents whom chose for them, they say that most of them are happily married but I don't think they love who they are married to because you can't choose who you fall in love with it just happens.


Another topic that popped up in the story was family relationships, and In my opinion they werent as close with their families as we are in our times. It seems as if the parents only talk to their children is they have to, when watching the movie I saw Juliet's mother talking to her maybe once or twice but that because she needed something from her. In Romeo's family the most we saw ere his cousins, the only time we saw his parents were after he died, but both Romeo and Juliet were both closer to their friends then they were to their family. 

I think there are many intentional details that Baz Learman made in this movie that made it as amazing as it was I think the best one was probably when the letter was being sent to Romeo about Juliet faking her death so that her and Romeo can finally be together in peace, That Romeo was leaving because he thought she had died and just missed the mail man. Also another was the fish in the tanks they were the montegue and capulet colors and I think it symbolizes that since the fish tank was in between them that it means that the montegue's and the capulets will try and keep them apart.