Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And The Rule Of 3

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Catherine Pulsifer, an author and poet once said, “Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future.” This quote introduces the fact that positive and negative choices people make can alter their future, even affecting the people around them. This is shown in the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, made by William Shakespeare; the two characters became obsessed with each other, however, both of them came from two different families which were constantly fighting. The book “The Rule of Three”, made by Eric Walters, also introduced this fact when there was a global blackout, which made everyone panic and made everyone start a big war over who had the most power. Both of these stories had a common theme, that good choices can …show more content…

After setting up positions for police officers to guard certain areas, and people getting up to get to the water from the creek. Herb had a plan to only move certain people to Mr. Peterson’s farm, but Adam didn’t want to leave people behind. This encouraged him to make a plan by himself. In the book Chapter 20, Page 170, it states, “...now I had to speak.’I don’t think we have to move to the farm. We can stay here.’” The reader can infer from this dialogue that Adam speaking up to Herb about his plan, changed everything and even Herb’s perspective about abandoning some of the people in the neighborhood. This piece of evidence shows that it’s important because choices that people make can change things. Especially, positive choices have a greater outcome than negative ones. This led to the high power they have against other neighborhoods. Another example is in Chapter 21, Page 187, when Adam’s plan was confirmed; this meant that they needed a way to grow crops, in which they already knew where to get the equipment for the crops. They tried to convince Mr. Peterson to move to the neighborhood and leave the farm behind. In the book, it states, “‘You’re doing the right thing.’ Herb offered Mr. Peterson his hand, and they shook.” This should make the reader think that Mr. Peterson's choice of accepting to leave the land behind is the best option he can take. The reason why is that it ended up feeding and helping a lot of families inside the neighborhood. Not having equipment to plant crops would have led to people starving to death, or having to fight each other for food. This is important because it shows that the choice Mr. Peterson made was the best choice he could’ve made, and resulting from good choices he had a positive conclusion. The choices that the characters made resulted in a positive outcome which in the end helped