Shame the Stars
by Guadalupe García McCall
“We’re being watched,” she whispered, leaning into me as we took to the floor and swayed with the music. “Mamá is intrigued, but Madame Josette knows
exactly who you are.”
I scanned the room as we turned in the waltz. Doña Serafina sat at a table to our left. “I think Madame Josette is trying to distract her,” I whispered,
sweeping Dulceña farther away from the two women. “Where’s your father?”
“Against the far wall, to your right.” Dulceña dipped her head in that general direction.
Don Rodrigo was talking to Mr. Simmons, our neighbor over by Las Moras and co-owner of the sugar mill. “He looks busy.”
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Juliet.
Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?
Nurse.
The son and heir of old Tiberio.
Juliet.
What's he that now is going out of door?
Juliet.
Nurse.
Marry, that, I think, be young Petruchio
Juliet.
Go, ask his name.—If he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
Nurse.
His name is Romeo, and a Montague,
The only son of your great enemy.
Juliet.
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
Use the passages to answer the question.
Which plot element is present in both passages?
A young woman rebels against an overly protective mother.
A young man and woman from feuding families fall in love.
A young woman falls in love with a man already married.
A young man and woman choose death rather than be kept
apart by their families.
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