Growing Up In Romeo And Juliet

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Children are faced with many different challenges in life. These challenges could be going to a new school, finding friends, or losing a friend. One of the most common challenges that children face is growing up. In Romeo and Juliet, both characters experience this common challenge. Also in a modern story written by Katherine Gazella, she writes about a couple with the same problem. In Marjorie Garber’s Romeo and Juliet story and still today, growing up is challenging because the lines between childhood and adulthood gets blurred.
Garber and Gazella both refer to writing about the challenges of adults acting like children and the children acting like mature adults. She discusses how childish and how immature the adults were acting. “Ironically

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