Culture Shock- West Side Story

The classic Romeo and Juliet reference. West Side Story. Two kids, one Hispanic and one Italian, meet and fall in love, but it's not destined to be. Their parents don't want them to be together so they are forced to go behind their parents' backs. It sound very familiar, doesn't it? Where have I hear this before? Maybe it's that book we read in class that seems to be popping up everywhere. Everyone references the forbidden love and tragic death. You can't turn without seeing it, but it seems like West Side Story is one of the references that everyone knows and talks about in reference to Romeo and Juliet. This is the new take on a classic tale that never seems to get old. It is the revival of Shakespeare. It will not go away.