Embracing The Life You Never Wanted “If you’re walking through Hell, keep walking.” Winston Churchill once quoted. Explaining how every beginning has an ending, and every ending has a new beginning. Tomorrow is a new beginning, and rather than rejecting the life you never wanted, we need to have the courage to walk through the pain and complications. In both Romeo and Juliet and the book Sons of Grace by Mark Hughes, the characters learn to embrace the life they never wanted. In Romeo and Juliet and Sons of Grace, both characters have to find courage to ‘cross the line’ into a new life. They learn that …show more content…
Romeo and Juliet bring this into focus as they decide to ‘cross the line’. This line could be represented as being the border between thought and action, between what you know or think and what you do. The conflict is introduced from the start, there is a long-standing feud between the two families; the Montagues (Romeo) and the Capulets (Juliet). The two lovers ‘cross the line’ when they fall instantly in love at the Capulet ball, “If I profane with my unworthiest hand, this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand, to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss” (Act 1, Scene 5, 92-96). This scene demonstrates the two individuals going against well known rules and regulations in Verona, changing their lives forever. With all things considered, these ideas that have been recognized in Romeo and Juliet, have also been occurring in recent pieces of literature, such as Sons of Grace. These ideas include, embracing the life you never wanted no matter how painful and complicated the situation may seem and realizing that courage is a decision and a rather rare trait to have. As these characters stepped out of their safety zones, they didn’t lose fear, but the fear lost its power over them. They gained power, in a sense, by rejecting