In June of 1992, the 18 year old known as Renee Phillips brought home a boy. He was a good looking 6”1, 190 solid pounds of hunk and partyboy. Not exactly the mother's approval type, and Renee knew that. She headed up her porch, the boy close behind and she knocked. One...Two... Thr- “Hello?” Renee smiled, stepping into the stride of telling her mother about the mysterious boy named Paul. Her mother, Carol took one look and said “I hate him.” That's all the girl needed to say “I do.” What followed next, was the cold bitter sweet taste of drugs, alcohol abuse, and beatings. Renee wished at night that her mother had said she liked him, or she had at least listened, but with her mother’s disapproval it only made her want to break out more …show more content…
In scene V. of Shakespeare's story “Romeo and Juliet” Capulet or Juliet’s father states that Juliet will marry Paris or he will never speak to her again. Juliet tries to plead with him and tell him she’s already married but can not due to the fact of her father’s seething, fume, of enragement. In the terror of being married to the one she hates when she is already married to the very person her parents loath beyond all reason she can only think of despair. The very problem her parent’s have placed upon her. She knows if she tells her parent’s of her act of marrying Romeo, it will create a great fall of distrust and disgusted hatred towards her and her family, but to marry someone she does not love is a greatest sin to one’s own heart. *( V. ll 131-235 Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet