Romeo And Juliet By William Shakespeare And Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

Emotional abandonment can be described as when other people are not meeting your needs, leaving one rejected or unloved. Children aren’t born with emotional intelligence. They need help understanding where their feelings come from, what they mean, how to identify them in their bodies, and how to interpret and express them to others. Without education and guidance from their parents, they aren’t equipped with emotional intelligence.”Additionally, emotional knowledge is key to building healthy relationships with their parents. Many parents are creating mental trauma in their children with the way they are treating and neglecting their thoughts.” They found clear differences in nine brain regions between those who had experienced childhood trauma

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson are very different. The works have a common concept that when parents emotionally abandon their child, it leads the kids to look for support from other people or hobbies. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's parents, Capulet and Lady Capulet do not give Juliet a choice on whether or not she gets to marry Paris. In addition, the emotional abandonment caused by the poor communication led to Juliet disobeying her parents and going to find Romeo. Not to mention, Capulet only cared about the wealthy stance to whom she was marrying. When Juliet mentions she doesn’t want to marry Paris, Capulet swears that, “...I'll give you to my friend. And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee, Nor what is mine shall never do thee good. Trust me, bethink you. I will not be forsworn.”(Shakespeare 3.5 191–196). For instance, Capulet declares that Juliet is marrying Paris. Capulet only likes Paris because he is