Over the years, our public education system has given and taken away book awards. One that was once considered a classic and decent got the Newbery Award, like The Little House on the Prairie series, and then years later was taken away due to terminology.
Yet somehow Romeo and Juliet keep making the cut. It has been hailed as the “greatest love story” and has served as the basis for hundreds of movies, such as West Side Story.
But if people took the time to look at the smaller details, they may not be in such a hurry to say this is an epic love story. For instance, Romeo falls in “love” (lust) with 2 women, Juliet being one of them. In a matter of days, they slept together. And if you think that’s romantic, then ask yourself, would you want your child (and she was a child and he was older) to sleep with someone days after meeting them?
Then they slept together but never communicated about their escape plan. and instead of telling their families, they chose to stage their deaths and then actually kill themselves. I love my husband, but I would never expect him to kill himself for our “love”
So to sum it up. She was a child who slept with a man after days of meeting. She didn’t even try to communicate or respect her family’s rules. She decided to stage her death but never properly communicated with her the “love of her lifetime,” and they both ended up committing suicide in the name of love, but really it was lust.
The Girl Who Couldn't Fit into A Box 
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