The word escape could mean to escape a place literally, or it could mean to escape life and emotion and the feeling of being stressed and/or depressed. An example would be a person being really tired and stressed about life and ending up taking their own or start doing drugs or drinking alcohol to escape from it. The earlier stories we have explored earlier on in the year all have elements of escape and how people end up doing it. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the theme of running away and escape appears throughout the book and relates to past books we have read in the past. In the play we have read, escape comes in many forms, but one major one would be escaping by love. In the story Romeo is mad and sad because he
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Grandma drinks her contributions to escape from her life and depression. The main reason why Grandma is so depressed is because of Aunt Loretta’s death. Jesse seems to escape from his life by smoking marijuana and drinking as well. “Jesse turns on the heat and then reaches into the glove compartment and takes out a pouch. ‘Do you have a light?’ Jesse asks Brick. ‘That’s drugs,’ Lakeisha says. ‘It’s harmless,’ Jesse says.’It’s not legal,’ Lakeisha says. ‘You could get arrested for having that.’ ‘Shhh… don’t tell.’(Durrow 229)” Later in the passage Lakiesha and Brick leave because they don’t want to get into it, plus Brick is trying to quit. Rachel and Jesse stay behind to smoke and drink because they feel that this is the way to escape from their lives and live a “better one,” other than actually running away, in which they talk about later. The theme of escape and running away is very prevalent in both the play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and The Girl that Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow, due to how people in each book deal and cope with depression and stress. Some people either take their own lives to just be done with it, and some do drugs and drink alcohol to just have their own alone time, where they don’t have to worry about anything. Overall the theme of escape really shows throughout each book, especially The girl who fell, because of all the emotion
Grandma drinks her contributions to escape from her life and depression. The main reason why Grandma is so depressed is because of Aunt Loretta’s death. Jesse seems to escape from his life by smoking marijuana and drinking as well. “Jesse turns on the heat and then reaches into the glove compartment and takes out a pouch. ‘Do you have a light?’ Jesse asks Brick. ‘That’s drugs,’ Lakeisha says. ‘It’s harmless,’ Jesse says.’It’s not legal,’ Lakeisha says. ‘You could get arrested for having that.’ ‘Shhh… don’t tell.’(Durrow 229)” Later in the passage Lakiesha and Brick leave because they don’t want to get into it, plus Brick is trying to quit. Rachel and Jesse stay behind to smoke and drink because they feel that this is the way to escape from their lives and live a “better one,” other than actually running away, in which they talk about later. The theme of escape and running away is very prevalent in both the play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and The Girl that Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow, due to how people in each book deal and cope with depression and stress. Some people either take their own lives to just be done with it, and some do drugs and drink alcohol to just have their own alone time, where they don’t have to worry about anything. Overall the theme of escape really shows throughout each book, especially The girl who fell, because of all the emotion