People can be changed by caring relationships. This happens in the book Me and You by Niccolo Ammaniti and the movie the Fault in Our Stars directed by Josh Boone. In the book, the main character, Lorenzo was changed by his half sister, Olivia, after they experienced a hard time together. In the movie, Hazel the main character was changed by Gus, her friend and her lover. Both the movie and the book show how love can help people grow in order to step outside of their small world.
Family members play a very important role in the book Me and You. Family loves you, but they also give you pressure. Lorenzo used to be a boy who is really smart, not talkative, and introverted. He doesn't care about other people's feelings except his parents’ and his grandma’s. He doesn't know how to make friends. He also doesn't know how to control his irritable emotions. All he knows is to pretend to be a popular kid that his parents want him to be. So what he did to make his mom happy was to lie to her. He told his mom that he went to a ski trip with his friends but actually he hid in the basement. One day, Olivia came to basement so he had no way to disguise this secret. Olivia took drugs and had nowhere to go so she stays in basement as well. During the time they live together a huge change occurs for Lorenzo. He sees his sister suffering from withdrawal so the small hero hidden inside him finally appears: “In my den she was safe, hidden away. Nobody could hurt her”(Ammaniti ##). Before this experience, Lorenzo wanted to help those people he loves but he doesn't have enough courage. Because he become brave and walks out from his small world and starts to accept others.( hospital, reason) He wants to help and think for those people that he doesn't even care about before. Without Olivia, Lorenzo couldn't have ability to make friend with others. (Feels alive) more embracing life.
Without family’s support, many unimaginable dreams could not be true. When you are having trouble, family is always your biggest supporter. The movie the Fault in our star shows the same thesis with Me and you. Hazel and Gus are both teenagers who are suffering from cancer. Hazel has to take oxygen career all the time and Gus has cut down a leg. They have similar experience and situation but they keep different opinions of death. Hazel live every day the same: read the same book, lie on sofa, and wait for death. “Depression is the side effect of dying.”(The Fault In Our Stars Dir. Josh Boone. Name of company/studio that produced the film. Date. Film (the word film). She thinks her life is a mass. However Gus lives every day in his life happily, he does the same thing that other healthy teenagers will do. He enjoys his life.(examples) Even though they have difference but they still fail in love quickly. They went to Amsterdam together, challenged their self, did many unbelievable things together. (details) Pain is able to see all the time in this movie, the pain from cancer, the pain from Hazel’s parents… We all know two cancerous people can never have forever love. Gus died first. The movie gives people a new view of death. Their time together made Hazel understand death is not the ending of a person’s life. It is a new start for those who has loved the died person. Hazel said funeral is not for people who has died, it is prepared for people whose still alive. Funeral is a chance for people to remember the died person, it is a chance to take love and start again. In this world, we only have to be remembered by the people we love and the people who love us, that is enough. She doesn't afraid of death anymore after she experienced Gus’s death. Death is not fearful, enjoy everyday life is always the right thing to do. From this movie, Hazel changed from a girl who given up all hope of live to a girl who is brave enough to challenge her new life.
Similarities
Both this book and movie are full of changes, love, and pain. The changes of Lorenzo and Hazel. Love from Lorenzo to his sister, love from Hazel to Gus. Also, pain from Olivia and Gus. A small thing some time can change your life. Just like Lorenzo and Hazel, the shows of Olivia and Gus give them a whole new view of this world. whythatkindofchangeisimportant
in order to grow up we have to step outside of their small world.
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