first draft

Veeti Heikkinen

18.02.2016

English

Jennifer Guarino

           Love is the strongest feeling in the world. When you are in love, your life starts to spin around your love. Because love is so important part of your life, it starts to affect your everyday life. Little Manhattan and Me and You both Show us that Love is the most powerful thing in the world when it comes to changing a person's personality.

The book Me and You Shows how even a troubled kid can be changed by the power of love. At first, Lorenzo was a young boy who had a lot of social problems. He didn't have friends and he preferred to be left alone. This shows that he needed a person who cared for him. Lorenzo also didn't care for anyone else except himself. From this we can learn that Lorenzo was really selfish. When his half sister, Olivia, came to his life and she was in need, Lorenzo slowly started to care for her more and more. After he helps Olivia, he feels really good and suddenly he felt really alive. The love between Lorenzo and his sister Olivia, changed Lorenzo from from a selfish self centered boy to a caring and outgoing person. This proves that sometimes you just need a person who you love and who loves you back in order to find a better life.

Even though love can be really wonderful at the time, it usually ends at some point. The movie Little Manhattan proves that even if the love ended, its effect on you will stay forever. Gabe was a 11 year old boy who suddenly fell in love with a girl who he has known for years. From this we can infer that you can fall in love really fast without having control over it. Gabe was living a perfectly normal life, except his parents were divorced. Before Gabe fell in love, all he knew about love, was that love ends. After he fell in love with Rosemary, his life turned around. All his thoughts started to go around love and Rosemary. This shows how much love influences your normal day life. After Rosemary broke up with Gabe, He went home and saw his parents laughing together remembering their honeymoon. This fact shows that when the love ends, it doesn’t change the past. The memories and the effect that love had on you, will stay the same for ever.