The novel 'me and you' and the film 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' portrays how love changes personality, from being hopeless and solitary to open-minded and caring.

Thesis

Little Manhattan is a love story between that tells about how quick and painful love can be, but still wonderful. Me and you is more focused on the change that a person's love can have on another person.

Chill snowdays

Snowdays are the best,
because there is no school.
You can watch Netflix,
and relax in your dorm.
You don't need to go anywhere or do anything.
You don't need to wake up early,
So you can stay up late.
If you feel bored,
You can go outside,
Play in the snow,
or build a snowman.

Veeti Heikkinen
English
Jennifer Guarino
3.2.2016

Little Manhattan

Little Manhattan is a love story between a 10 year old boy and a 11 year old girl. It tells about how quick and painful love can be, but still wonderful. 

     The Main character and narrator of this Movie is Gabe. He is a normal boy who has good friends. His parents are divorced, but they are still living together. Gabe has a good relationship with both of them. Before Gabe gets to know Rosemary, all he knew about love, is that love ends. He meets Rosemary in karate class, where they became karate partners. They decides to practice together. They get a little side tracked, and goes shopping for a dress for Rosemary. When Gabe sees her in that dress, he fells in love with her. He doesn't know what these feelings are. Usually he has thought that girls are gross. Gabe gets really nervous around Rosemary, and wants to make a good impression. His thoughts starts to go around Rosemary. They start seeing each other more often. Gabe wants to kiss her, but he is too nervous. Then Rosemary gets a new karate partner, and Gabe thinks that he has to go back to his miserable life, until he remembers that his life was great. Gabe still can't get Rosemary out of his head. Then Rosemary calls Gabe and they go to a concert. Gabe finally has the guts to kiss her. Her response is: "I got to go." The next day Rosemary calls him, and Gabe tells her that he hates her. Later he starts to regret it, and apologizes to her and tells that he loves her more than anything. Rosemary says that she is not ready to love yet. When he goes home, his parents are laughing together, and remembering their honeymoon.

     Gabe realizes that even though love ends, you will always have those memories that you can't shape, and Rosemary will always be his first love.

3 movies

1.  Little Manhattan, the movie is about two kids falling in love with each other in Manhattan.

2. The Fault in Our Stars, it tells about two cancer patients on a journey together to see a reclusive author in Amsterdam.

3. Wild Child, a rebellious teenage "princess" is sent to a strict boarding school in England.

Veeti Heikkinen

English

Jennifer Guarino

28.1.2016

The Ending

The book “Me and You” ended when Lorenzo saw her dead sister. It was 10 years later than the actual story. The book also started when Lorenzo was waiting in a hotel on the same day as he went to see his dead sister. The last part began when Lorenzo was reading the note that Olivia left him, at the hotel. In the letter Olivia says that “remember to keep the promise”, which referred to the promise that they would see each other again. Lorenzo thought to himself that he will see her after ten years. He walks to some kind of corpse room, where Lorenzo sees Olivia laying on a table, dead. He asks for a moment with her alone.

I didn’t really have any reaction to the ending. You can’t really have a reaction to a fictional book. I didn’t really expect anything from the ending, so it didn’t surprise me at all. I thought that after their time in the basement, Lorenzo and Olivia would be closer and keep in touch with each other. The book said that they haven’t seen each other in ten years, but it didn’t relieve if they had been in touch with each other. There isn’t much that you could learn from the book. One thing that the book showed us is that if you do drugs, it is possible to quit, but it is very hard to stay clean forever. Olivia seemed like she quit doing drugs, but 10 years later she died of overdose. Another thing is that drugs can ruin your life and even kill you. In the book, drugs had ruined Olivia’s life, and later on they killed her.

Olivia

In chapter 5, Lorenzo’s half sister, Olivia, finds out that Lorenzo is hiding in the basement. She came to the basement to find something out of her old stuff, but couldn’t find anything. Then Olivia asks Lorenzo for money, but he tells her that he doesn’t have any. Lorenzo doesn’t really know Olivia. His parents doesn’t talk about Olivia when Lorenzo was around. Olivia promises not to tell that Lorenzo is hiding in the basement. Lorenzo finds a letter from Olivia to their father. Olivia tells that Olivia hates their dad and doesn’t need his money anymore. Later that night, Olivia knocks on the basement window. She asks if she can spend the night in the basement. Lorenzo strictly says no. He thought that the basement was his, and nobody could come or stay there. He said that there is only room and food for one person. I think that he felt safe in the basement when he was there alone. He could do what he wants to, and nobody was watching or judging him. Also when he was alone, he didn’t have to worry from getting caught. Olivia tried to ask him nicely like she is asking for a favour and she did a favour for Lorenzo by not telling on him. Still Lorenzo says that she can’t come and he promised himself that he wouldn’t get out of the basement. After that Olivia started to threaten Lorenzo with telling to his parents that he was in the basement. After that Lorenzo let’s Olivia come over for one night. He couldn’t take the risk that his parents found out. Next day Olivia is really sick. Still Lorenzo tells Olivia that she needs to leave. But right when She was leaving, Lorenzo’s mum called him. His mum demands to talk to Alessia’s mother. Then Lorenzo got an idea that Olivia could pretend Alessia’s mother. At first she says that she won’t do it. Lorenzo begs her and gives her permission to stay in the basement and agrees to be her slave for the rest of his life. Then she talks to Lorenzo’s mother pretending that she was Alessia’s mother. Lorenzo’s mum believed it. Lorenzo gets worried of Olivia’s illness, but Olivia tells him to mind his own business. Lorenzo notices red dots in the middle of Olivia’s arms. He realizes that she was a drug addict. That’s why she needs money and his parents doesn’t talk about her when he was around. He was shocked. Lorenzo was afraid of people who just sit on the benches of Villa Borghese and drinks beer and uses drugs and begs for money. And now there was one of those in his den. He waits for Olivia to go to the bathroom, and then checks her purse. He found syringes wrapped in plastic. I think that Lorenzo then realizes that Olivia needed help and support.