Iram Pannu, a student of Grade 8, has won a scholarship of 20% to take part in summer programs at Oxford, Cambridge and LSE through the Immerse Education Essay Competition 2022.<\/p>
The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides students aged between 13 and 18 with the opportunity to submit essays related to their chosen subject. Iram presented her essay on the topic \u2018Romance\u2019. She did a wonderful job of capturing the essence of the Romance genre and what it means to everyone.<\/p>
Iram\u2019s words depicted Romance differently amongst her competitors and pushed her to win. We are proud of your achievement, Iram. Best of luck for all future endeavours!<\/p>
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Romance<\/u><\/strong><\/p> \u201cLove is not love <\/em><\/p> Which alters when it alteration finds, <\/em><\/p> Or bends with the remover to remove: <\/em><\/p> O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, <\/em><\/p> That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;\u201d <\/em><\/p> \u2013 Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 <\/em><\/p> Romance, a genre which has never failed to make my heart aflutter. The theme tugs at vulnerable\u00a0 hearts. Love, the word itself makes us feel an emotion, that some are desperately trying to find while\u00a0 some don\u2019t want to believe in it\u2019s existence. It tempts inquisitive teenagers along with wise adults\u00a0 with its overwhelming clich\u00e9s and makes them believe that love is the most beautiful thing that one\u00a0 can experience.<\/p> Romance can be found in the deepest corner of a library, where only the hopeless romantics look, for\u00a0 a new journey down the rocky road of love to make their heart skip a beat. Even the most intellectual\u00a0 minds find themselves turned towards the calling of romance. Romance stirs something deep inside us\u00a0 which is not in our control.<\/p> Romance pulls us into a fairy tale, where we observe the love shared between two individuals. As we\u00a0 observe their growing admiration towards one another, we start to get emotionally connected to the\u00a0 characters and we hope to find love, the love which is in a romance novel.<\/p> Romance, as a genre, lets us be in a character\u2019s shoes as we feel their extreme emotions take over us.\u00a0 It lets us empathise with the characters in their most difficult times and makes us celebrate in their\u00a0 happiest. Although, this is applicable for all genres, romance has much more to offer and one of those\u00a0 things is an assured happy ending. Happy endings have always seemed to reassure me that the love\u00a0 between the main leads is eternal, which makes it easier for oneself to connect to the characters. We\u00a0 understand them and put ourselves in their situation just to feel their happiness and their pain.<\/p> One of the greatest examples of eternal love is the love between Heathcliff <\/em>and Catherine <\/em>from Wuthering Height, <\/em>by Emily Bront\u00eb<\/em>. The love between Heathcliff and Catherine was so passionate\u00a0 that it destroyed the others around them. Catherine had a lot of pride due to which she tried to forget\u00a0 her love for Heathcliff and married Edgar Linton. But, her love for Heathcliff was much more than\u00a0 her pride. Though she was married to Edgar, she knew that she could never love him as much as she\u00a0 loved Heathcliff. Heathcliff never gave up on his love. One thing that never failed to surprise me was\u00a0 his faith in his love for Catherine.<\/p> There are countless people who assume that romance is mainly based on physical affection, but,\u00a0 romance is so much more. It\u2019s about the emotional bond that a reader and the characters share. It\u2019s\u00a0 more about the people and their emotions than the physical display of affection. Romance teaches us\u00a0 that love has no religion, caste or sex and that everyone has the right to love and be loved.<\/p> In conclusion to this, romance gives an encouraging and important message, which is that everyone\u00a0 deserves to be loved. It teaches us compassion and brings us together in a way that no other genre can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iram Pannu, a student of Grade 8, has won a scholarship of 20% to take part in summer programs at Oxford, Cambridge and LSE through the Immerse Education Essay Competition 2022.The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides students aged between 13 and 18 with the opportunity to submit essays related to their chosen subject. Iram presented…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n