The End of Me And You

The End of Me And You

The end of this story is a bad ending that I never thought about that before. The story ended by Lorenzo visited the hotel which is Olivia lived. He find a letter that Olivia left for him to Thanks him about helping her at her worst time. However, Olivia died because of overdose. That made me so confused because she just promised to Lorenzo that she wouldn’t take drugs anymore. I thought she would back home and had the common life. The end made me felt so upset and pitiful for Olivia. As we know they promised to each other they would meet again in the end of the story. For the truth, they didn’t see each other until Olivia died. I just thought they would have a good relationship with each other.

In my opinion, they should have a happy ending that they both have a good relationship with others. By reading the book, we know Lorenzo had lots of problems. He didn’t have any friends before. He changed after meeting with Olivia. Olivia also had many problems. The similar they are was they both hate their father. Their father married with Olivia’s mother. Then he married with Lorenzo’s mother for some reasons, and he was broken with Olivia’s mother. Even he still gave money to Olivia’s mother, he could not be the father like others. I think that is the most important reason why Olivia and Lorenzo will like that. However, they both changed after meeting with each other. I thought they will have a new life after they left basement. I thought Lorenzo would have lots of friends because he knew how to help others. He wouldn’t be so lonely like before because he became more hopeful. He would go outside with his new friends. Maybe they would talk about Olivia. Then, they would do homework together in someone’s home. Maybe they would live in other’s room, but this time, Lorenzo doesn’t need to lie to his mom. Olivia won’t take drugs anymore because she promised to Lorenzo. She will back home and introduce her boyfriend to her mom. She would marry with her boyfriend and have a cut baby. She would go to find some job and become a normal person which she dreamed. Lorenzo and Olivia would still connect with each other. Maybe Lorenzo’s mother would accept Lorenzo play with Olivia and accept Olivia and her mother. They would have a wonderful life after they met in the basement. However, everything is different in the end. Olivia died because of overdose. She didn’t stop taking drugs. She just left a letter. This end is really surprised me.

I think this story talk us we should be nice to others and help people as we can. However, by the end of the story, I think the story tell us the life is so unexpected that we wouldn’t know the end before we have the end. That mains there are lots of different ways you can choose before ending. Because you wouldn’t know the end of your life, just try everything you wanted to do.

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I think Lorenzo changed to be more perceptual by the end of the story. He began to take care of others and tried to help others. As we know, Lorenzo is a hopeless person with autism who just care about himself in the beginning of the story. However, he became more perceptual after he met Olivia. ‘I’ll take care of everything. You stay here, I’ll be back soon.’He said to Olivia when he went to find some medicine for her. By this quote we can find the difference between before and now. He won't go to find any medicine for a stranger and told her he will take care of everything, but he did now let Olivia don't be worried. I thought that was the change that he became like a human and tried to care and help others by what he could do.

Chapter 5-6

Vivian Xue

English II

Ms. Gurino

01/18/2016

Chapter 5-6 is about the relationship between Olivia and Lorenzo. However, they have the same father but different mother. Olivia went back to the home. She also didn’t want her parents know she came back because she wanted to find a box which has some money in it, and she needed money. Therefore, she back after checking there’s no people in the home. When she back to the house, she remembered the box was in the basement. When she went to the basement, she saw Lorenzo who should go to the ski week. Then, she also wanted to stay in the basement, but Lorenzo didn’t want her stay with him.

At first, Lorenzo didn’t want to Olivia stay with him because he didn’t want to Olivia came in. He thought Olivia will tell his mom that he was live in the basement, and he didn’t go to the ski week. Also, the food in basement was not enough for them to eat. He didn’t want to share the room with Olivia because the room was so small. Therefore, he didn’t want to stay with Olivia in the basement.

Then, Olivia came second time. She knocked the window and wanted Lorenzo let her went into the basement. Lorenzo didn’t want her came in first, but Olivia said if he didn’t let her in, she will go upstair and told her mom and dad he didn’t go to the ski week and stay in the basement for a long time. He could not refuse because he could not let his mom know he was lying. Also, Olivia said she will just live in one day. Therefore, Lorenzo let her came in and live in the basement one day.

However, in the other day, Olivia didn’t want to go. Lorenzo was not happy about that, so he wanted to get his sister out of the basement. Then, they had the quarrel. During this time,  Lorenzo’s mom called him. He didn’t know how to answer her because he didn’t go to the ski week with his friends. So, she begged Olivia to act like Alessia’s mom. He said he would let her live in the basement with him and he will be the slave in his rest of the time. Then she answer his mom and said they are together during the ski week. After this, Lorenzo let Olivia live with him. Because Olivia helped him to lie with his mom, and she didn’t tell his mom he didn’t go to the ski week with his “friends”. In my opinion, I think because Lorenzo thought Olivia won’t say anything about him to his mom, he will let her live with him. In the evening, Lorenzo heard Olivia was groaning on the bed, so he put his headphone on. In the morning, Olivia went to the bathroom and vomit. Then, Lorenzo find some vaccinate in her bag which is about the Malaria.

chapter 1 summary

Lorenzo is a 14-year-old boy who wanted to go skiing. His mother wanted to drive him to there but he didn't want his mother did that because he lied to his mother. Then, he went to a building by himself after have a quarrel with his mother, and stay there for the whole week alone.

my holiday

I spent whole holiday with my grandfather who just had a gastrointestinal surgery. Before that, he already had 2 other surgeries; one is for his leg; another one is for his head. Therefore, when I saw him, he was very weak and lie on the bed. I have never seen he is so old. Everytime I saw him, he seemed pushful and always laugh with us. I don’t know what made him became older. That made me very sad because he is the people who love me most except my parents.
Because my grandfather was in the hospital at the first week I was in China, I have to go to hospital to see him. I got up early and did everything that I needed to do. Than I go to the hospital. I have just a little time to have the rest. However, when I heard that my grandfather won’t be recovery, I still sad a lot. I don’t know how long will he alive, but I know the best thing I can do now is stay with him a lot.
The last day that I have to leave my home, my grandfather cried and said, took care of yourself. I could not forget the sound from him. It seemed sad and hopeless of his life. My mom told me, my grandfather afraid he won’t see me anymore because he also don’t know how long will him have in this world.

Self-Assessment

I have lots of things should be fixed in my dairy. However, I also think I tried my best to do this project.
I created a new character which is not appeared in the story. She is also a scholarship students, and she is from China. Accurately, I am so lazy that I didn't want to think about the name, so I just use my name for her to be a new character in Sookan's world. Also, because she is a new character that Sookan didn't know who she is. Then, I created other new characters. I tried to make Sookan and my character to be separated but also similar because they live in the same collage. I wanted to let my character talk with Sookan but Sookan didn't write in her dairy because she could not remember everyone in the school. Also, you won't write everything happened today.
For the details, I spent long time to write. This is a very long dairy. I cannot say I include all of the details because I know I still should fix my dairy. However, every details in the dairy was thought by me. I tried to make people really in the story and see all the things with the character. Some of my dairy is very easy and without many details that because I have no time to write more. However, the senses for the character is very abundant. I wrote  the thinking by the character for every events. How she feel, and the moods she has.
Also, the time goes so quickly that I could not go over it again and again. a the only thing I could do is make sure the grammar mistakes are not so much like when I wrote. I know lots of my sentences are very strange to read, but I didn't know how to change. Also, there are so many grammar mistakes, details and somethings I should fix. I think if I have more time I can do more about my project.
This project is spent 3 weeks time, But I just finished writing this Monday because it is really have many things that I could write. For the new characters, for some new stories. I think my dairy is very different from Sookan's. We are writing the same school; we have the same school events; the story is different. They are separated with each other. Maybe this time I did not very good, but I will be better next time because this is the first time for mr to use English to write a story.

Went To Writing Center

When I went to the writing center, there has another person who is Valerie. She was improving her English there. Ms. Swift was talking about listening with her. When she saw me, she said I could read my story to them. It’s a good way to look for the mistakes in the writing. Also, that’s good for Valeriae to improve her listening. She asked Valerie to look for the mistakes when I was reading. I think this is a good way for me and Valerie because I could find which place that I should improve, and Valerie could improve her listening part for her English.

Then, I began to read my writing. Ms. Swift let me stop each sentence and let Valerie to give me some advice about my grammar. After reading one diary entry, she said my diary is a good story, but I should work more on my grammar and details. She also very surprised about Valerie because she said she just thought Valerie didn’t know anything about English. Ms. Cook told her Valerie didn’t say anything in the class so that she thought because she didn’t understand what were they talking about in the class. I knew that because when I was 8th grade. I have the same class with Valerie. At that time, she also didn’t say anything in the class that made me think she is not a Chinese. I had never heard anything even Chinese from her. I also didn’t talk in the class when I come to America at the first year. Chinese education is so different from American’s. There are 50 students in the same classroom and have the same class. We can not talk without hands up. That will make teacher crazy.

Then, when I talk about my diary about the girl is from Chinese, Ms. Swift asked us about the different from Chinese dress and American dress. She looked for some pictures for us. I know what is Chinese dress looked like at 1950s because I have two of that kind of dress in my home. However, there only a less people will wear that to America, for that is so strange in the different country. Therefore I wrote my character is glad that people looked at Sookan and not her. She didn’t want people look at her because she didn’t want people looked at her different face and different clothes.

After I visiting Ms. Swift, I know what kind of information should I add in my diary. I have to add more details for my diary and fix my grammar for my diary too. Ms. Swift said my diary is a good story, I still should take care of my grammar and details. Also, because I am the Chinese, there are some sentences is very strange for the people to read. I thanks her so much, that she gave me lots of advice about my diary. Even if that is not for the whole project, and she had no time for me to through my project, I still very Thanks her for the advice she gave me about the first three diary entries. If I have extra time, I will go to visit her again about my final draft.