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                                                                             01/29/2016                    
                 
                                            Me and You book review

     At first I felt this is a odd story because everyone seems to have strange personalities. In fact this is really a odd story. I do not like this book at all, ending is bad. I am the person more like to read happy ending book. When I read Olivia is dead due to overdrugs I was shocked and then I began to suspect that is not the truth. That night Olivia just promised Lorenzo not going to take drugs again, but the reason why she died is taking too much drugs. Ending was different with my imagination. I expected after the time they spent in cellar, they both began to change. For Lorenzo, he might be an talktive and outgoing boy. And for Olivia, she would not take drugs again and find a boy who really loves her and they were going to have their peace happy lives. And after many years they would meet agian, they would be suprised how each other changed and thanked to each other for affecting themselves.
    I felt shame and pity for Olivia because I always believe she is a good and smart girl. She became like this (smoking, drinking beers, taking drugs and having sex with an ungly man) due to his father. She hated her father who never gave enough love to Olivia, so Olivia had to take care of herself which is really hard for a teen girl. Olivia looked like a strong girl that do everything on her won, but I think she is not the way that she looked like. She was just pretending to be strong, she definitely needed true love from somebody. That is why her relatioship with Lorenzo was getting better and better as time passed. I think Lorenzo could feel that there is something on Olivia was similar with himself. They were “ on the same boat”. So Lorenzo usually took care of Olivia, for example helpling her stand, passing her clothes and even steal the medcine for her.
    I think Lorenzo would grow up and be more mature though this. After Olivia said goodbye, he must felt that communicating with other people is not that hard, and it is possible to begin outgoing from that time. Unfortunately Olivia and Lorenzo did not keep in touch, but Lorenzo was getting better and better to join the society. In some ways, Olivia really changed Lorenzo and Olivia got heal from Lorenzo too. However it is just hard for Olivia to change good because Olivia was an adult already. And drugs were not easy to cut out.
   Although I do not like this book, I still learn something. One’s personality can be changed by someone. Life is a process that learning things, there must be something affects on you and then change you. This change might be good or bad. For example Olivia, her father and mother divorced so she began to turn to bad. For example Lorenzo, he was a boy who enjoy being lonely before but then Olivia changed him.

Chapters 5&6

       Lorenzo has a stepsister named Olivia, who was very beautiful in the past. As the book saying“Instead she was incredibly beautiful, one of those girls…...your face burns red.” In my opinion, their relationships are not good. There are two evidences shows why they are not quite close.First they just met several times, they are not like other brothers and sisters that stay together at home the whole time. They were not able to stay together because lorenzo’s mom does not like Olivia’s mom who related to dad. Second evidence is at first Lorenzo does not want to let Olivia live in this cellar.
      I try to imagine if I had a close sister, I would immediately open the door for her. However not like Lorenzo that has to think about it for a while. There are also some other reasons why Lorenzo does not want her sister lives in. Foods are not enough for two people and space is not enough as well. Lorenzo is a chary boy that he has to think about many sides of one thing to make sure there is nothing make him in trouble. Because of his clever mind, he agrees her sister can get in. Her sister tries to “threaten” Lorenzo.
( Lorenzo is afraid that his mom is going to know he avoids skiing in the cellar.) Except this, Lorenzo also wants get help from Olivia who can pretend to be Alessia’s mom and call to Lorenzo’s mom to prove there is nothing wrong about Lorenzo. However that happens later because Lorenzo does not know his mom calls Alessia’s mom. In order to keep this huge lie alive, Lorenzo follows what Olivia orders. “ Olivia says to Lorenzo: ‘Repeat, I swear on my parent’s lives that I will be Olivia Cuni’s slave.’”
      In fact he does not really wants her sister in, they just kind of making a contract that benefit each other. Her sister promises she is not going to tell his mom and only stay for one night, then Olivia is able to find a place to sleep. I think Lorenzo feels sorry about Olivia is when he see Olivia’s shoes is dirty. Also Olivia is too weak and shows like long time no eating foods. “She was so thin,all bones, with long narrow feet, a thin neck like a greyhound and wide shoulders, and her arms…” Lorenzo finds shadow of himself from Olivia that their father does not take care of them well. There are sentences in book wrote like this” I am writing to thank you for the money. Each time you get me out of trouble using your wealth I ask myself: if money didn’t exist in this world, how would my father help me?” He realizes Olivia is like himself’s situation that not often get love from dad but always money. He clearly empathizes her, so he wants give Olivia some warmness except wealth. Although Lorenzo is odd,but Lorenzo thinks her sister lives badly. So he just agrees Olivia can live here.

He went to ski but he thought it was boring, so he went to find his dad to avoid.

    My friend told me it was kind of wasting time if I don't go skiing during winter break. Beijing is very cold in winter, so the snow are good enough to ski. One day I went there and I really wore very warm because my mom kept telling me it was cold. We picked Wednesday to go, so there were not many people.
    I knew how to ski before, but this time I was not sure I could handle it. So at first I went to a beginner road, it was pretty easy, road was not abrupt or wriggle. I easily went through that road with out tumble. I thought I was ready to go the intermediate road,but I still felt nervous about it. My father understood me so he decided to go with me. I could see there were less people than beginner road. When I was skiing, I tried to slow my speed because it was dangerous that I crush on somebody. At last I got used to it, I felt it was not a hard job.
   This time I enjoyed and meanwhile I made breakthrough that I was able to accomplish the intermediate on my own. I will try to higher level.  I think it was a good advice from my friend. I will go to ski again next winter break.