First half of act 5 notes

• Act 5 starts out with Romeo hiding out because he was banished from Verona.
• Friar Lawrence had sent him a letter telling Romeo that Juliet was not dead and that she would wake up.
• The letter never made it to Romeo.
• The only news he heard about was that Juliet was dead.
• Romeo decides to go and buy poison to drink because he thinks that the best thing to do is kill himself also to be with Juliet.
• He goes to this poor man and gives him all of his money and goes off to the tomb of Juliet.
• As Romeo is walking to the graveyard, Paris was already there. He still believes that Juliet loved him.
• Romeo enters the graveyard and starts to open the tomb of Juliet's grave.
• Paris tries to stop him but Romeo kills him.