Claudia Nava Final Exam Essay

The meaning of tragedy in the story The Afterlife I think is to learn how to forgive and forget. In this story, a boy gets killed for no good reason. The boy comes back as a ghost and finds out many interesting things that he didnt know when he was alive. One of those things was that he realizes that he isn't really that angry at the guy that killed him and he doesn't know the reason for that. For some reason, the boy doesnt want his family or friends to get revenge for him.
In this story Chuy forgives the guy for killing him and he actually finds love and friends in the afterlife.
In the story of Romeo and Juliet, the meaning of tragedy is also kind of forgiveness but it is mostly love, and sacrifice. The sacrifice starts when Romeo decides to marry Juliet even though they are from feuding families. When Romeo and Juliet wed, that is when the problems start. In this story, love is a tragedy because of all the problems it causes.
Friends are also kind of a tragedy in this story because when Mercutio gets killed by Tybalt, Romeo gets angry and so he kills Tybalt. Then Romeo gets kicked out of Verona for killing Tybalt and he is sent away from his wife (Juliet).Because Romeo gets kicked out, that might lead juliet to do something dumb.
Romeo sacrifices himself and goes to see Juliet. Then Juliet comes up with a plan but Romeo does not know about it. Juliet pretends to be dead because her parents want her to marry Paris because they dont know that she is married. But since Romeo does not know about the plan, he is told that Juliet is dead and he thinks it is really true. So Romeo decides to kill himself because Juliet is "dead". Juliet then wakes up, finds Romeo dead, and so then she decides to kill herself too.
That is why in this story, love is a tragedy. Love causes death and sacrifice. But at the end of this story, the feuding families decide to settle their differences because two of their children are dead just because of their dumb feud. But it took many tragedies like deaths and thing like that to make the families decide that their feud was really bad and a dumb mistake that cost many lives...