Favorite character in Once on this Island

      My favorite is Papa, I think he is one of the kindest character in the whole play. First, he raises Ti Moune from a unknow girl to a lady, it is a really impressive thing to raise a orphan that you never know, and just because you meet one on the road. He is poor, he is hard to feed his family, but he decided to raise a orphan. After Ti Moune grows up, papa doesn't force to do what he wanted, he lets Ti Moune what she really wants to do, he doesn't force Ti Monue to save Daniel. And he try to find Daniel's parents told them they he found their son. Although when he went to the rich people house, the guard is rude to him, he doesn't leave, he try's to explain why he go their. Those actions show he really loves Ti Moune, he look To Moune as his real daughter. Many things he did show he is a kind person and with a good characteristic, so my favorite character is Papa.

Review of Once on this Island

           Friday night, I went to see our school musical called Once On this Island. Frankly, when I first heard that I should went to see I the play, I was unwilling to go. But after I saw this musical play, I change my mind. I love the story, not like many other stories, it doesn't have a good ending, the ending is between good ending and bad ending I think, which I like it because it is especial. If the ending is Ti Moune and Daniel becomes together, it would just be a normal love story, but the ending is Ti Moune becomes a tree who would watches the changes of the world. I think this is kind of interesting, and a good result for Ti Moune. 

          Many people may wanted Ti Moune can marry with Daniel, but I think this may not be a good ending for Ti Moune, imagine if Ti Moune marry with Daniel, will she be happy to live with others prejudices? She is a peasant, in the world in Once on this Island, peasants and rich people are in two different world, two world never meet, rich people look down on poor people, they never let poor people get into their place. So even Ti Moune marry with Daniel, she may not has a happy life to stay in rich people's place. People in nowadays still have this kind of idea, although people are equal nowadays, some rich people still look down on power, and doesn't like them, and rich family won't like their children to marry with a poor person. This world is unfair, money and social status decide everything. So Ti Moune becomes a tree is kind of a good a arrange for her, at least she could watches the changes of the world. 

         Beside the good story, the actors did a great job too. I love how a musical play run on, there are a lot of great music in Once on this Island. Because there is so many great music in the play, I didn't feel bored during the whole play. The music in the play are diversified, sometime the music make me feel happy, sometime the music make me feel sad, sometime the music make me feel melancholy, and sometime the music make sound mystery. The best music in the whole play I think is when Daniel lays on the ground, and Ti Moune hugs him and sings. I love this singing part, the actor's voice is beautiful, and has strong infection to the audiences. Her singing sound truthful, I can tell she really wants Daniel can reborn. For the best sense for me is Papa asks to get into rich place to find Daniel's father. James acts Papa really well, he looks so poor and really helplessness, he really wants to get into rich house, but the Gate Guard rejects him. At that time, I felt anger to the Gate Guard for rejecting Papa. I think a good actor is the actor who can effect audiences' emotion. And for the best part for me in this play is when all the actors sing together. Those senses make me feel shock, and every actors' action are almost the same and do in the same time, I really appreciate this, I can tell they spend a lot of time to practice, so they can do this so perfectly. 

            After all, I really like this play, I feel honor that I can watches this play, and I have forgot the unwilling when I first heard I had to come to this play. And I am look forward to watch the next play in the spring.  

Blog about writing center trip, Feb 26

          Today extra help I went to writing to visit Ms. Swift for revise my essay about comparing Lorenzo and Will. I had a good time in the writing center, it is the second I go there, I love the atmosphere there, there are sofa for students to sit on. So I wasn't bored when I was waiting in the writing center. I love there, I love the atmosphere in there, I feel comfortable to stay there. 

          After Ms. Swift look over my essay, she gave me two major advices. The first one is do not repeat the things that had already talked about in the front part. Second is when I am tell what is happening in the story, I do not need to use past tense, I need to use present tense, expect I am comparing two things that are happened before and after in the story, then I need to use past tense to describe the older things in the story. For the first advice, I think it really helps me to improve my essay, because sometimes when you talking one thing many times in the essay, it would make the reader confuse of it. It doesn't help you to explain a thing, it make the thing to be complicated, and dull. For example, I mention Lorenzo is a smart kid so many times in my essay, this makes my essay seems only had one point and dull, so I don't need to mention Lorenzo is a smart kid after I point this out at the first time. For the second advice, she said I need to change my tense. This is the thing I never noticed before, this make me better describe the story in essay. So I think it is a very useful advice.

         Beside those two advices she gave me, we still find some small error in my essay. The first one is I didn't use most suitable word to describe one things, for example, I said "Many people who show like unsocial", in here act is a better word instead of using show. Second, for quote, Ms.Swift told me that if I already mentioned the author name before, then I don't need to mention it again, I just need to write the page number. Third, still about quotes, sometime I didn't need to quote the whole sentence for the books or films, I should make the quote connect with my essay, so long is not the best, suitable is the best. For example, I use a quote to describe Olivia, but I copy the whole thing from the book as "She'd lost a lot of weight and her square cheekbones stuck out........She wasn't as beautiful as she had been two years ago". For this quote, the front part is not relate to my essay, so I can actual cut that part, and only use the last part, this make the quote connect with my essay more. Forth, I couldn't make one sentence to be too long, I should cut some long sentences in to two or more short sentences, this help readers to read. The last error is I need to use some conjunctions to connect my sentence, this make my essay fluently. Those are small errors, but correct those errors will make essay become much better. 

          My writing center trip help me a lot on my essay. It worth a lot for me, I really helps me to improve essay, I believe my essay will improve a lot after this revise.  

Revision review

       I just finished the first two body paragraphs in my essay, and I need to write one more body paragraph and one conclusion paragraph. The last body paragraph I am going to talk about how is Lorenzo and Will different and how are they similar. In the revision draft, I change my topic sentence a little which make the readers can understand more what I am talking about. Also I add more detail to explain my argument, because I know that there are some places in my essay which make reader confuse a lot from the feedback. And I did some grammar corrections too. I think there are still some spelling and grammar in my essay, so I am going to do more correction in my essay. And I plan to see Ms. Swift to see what else problems do I still have. Maybe about the essay structure, or the balance between analysis and summary.  I think my strengths is I have some special argument in my essay, and I use some quotes to support my argument, and I pick a good movie which the main character Will has some similar points with Lorenzo and also some different points with Lorenzo so I can talk more about them in my last body paragraph. The weakness in my essay are I usually make reader confuse on my essay, I may use more evident to do more explanation in my essay, and I need to correct all my grammar and spelling mistakes in my essay. The most difficult part when I wrote my essay is to explain my arguments, because the sentences I use to explain my arguments are too long, so I need to cut them, but sometime I don't know which parts do I need to cut and which parts do I need to save. But after all, during writing this essay, I think my writing had been improved. I feel like I can think more and have more interesting opinion to write about. Another thinks is I can write one paragraph in one time without stop. I usually would stop at some point and just stuck on it when I wrote essay before, but now I won't. so I think I had improve myself on writing this essay. 

Revise graft

Johnny Liu

English II 

                                              Friends of Life

        There are many people in the world looks unsocial, but in fact they just need some helps. Me and You and Good Will Hunting are two good examples showing this. Lorenzo and Will are the main characters in these two stories. They are both smart person; they were both unsocial before but they changed in the end, this explore that everyone can be change, there were no problem kid in the world. Lorenzo and Will both didn't had a lot of friends, and they didn't have the courage to face to the world, but after Lorenzo met Olivia, Will met Sean, they got change. In both stories, the main characters found a person with whom they could explore their emotions, and learned that the only thing you need to change yourself is courage and a person who will support you.

        Many people are totally different from what they were like when they were kids. Me and You shows everyone in the world can change themselves, they just lack of a person who can really listen to them, if you have a person who will support, and everyone can change themselves. The main character Lorenzo was a smart kid, he always stayed along and didn’t have many friends, but after he met her sister Olivia and got alone with her in the basement for few days he got affected by Olivia and changed into a normal kid who would like to get closer with outside world. Lorenzo was smart kid and a good actor: “I pretend to be a normal kid with problems”(Ammaniti 29) from here we can know he didn’t want anyone to know who he really is, so he always wore a mask in his life. Many people who shows like they was unsocial is just afraid to communicate with others, sometime they just want to protect themselves by not talking with others. In Me and You, Lorenzo afraid of talking with others: “You have to be very confident to make jokes in public”(Ammaniti 19), he didn’t have confident to talk with others. Sometime, people just doesn't have the courage to do something, but courage is usually hard to get, but everything changes after he met his sister, Lorenzo describe his sister as “She’d lost a lot of weight and her square cheekbones stuck out. Her face looked stretched and tired. She wasn’t as beautiful as she had been two years ago”(Ammaniti 74), he saw Olivia, who was in a similar situation with him, didn’t have many friends, but even worse than him. So when he saw Olivia was in painful, he decided to help her, which make himself felt he really did something meaningful to somebody. It is the first time he had this kind of feeling. This was the turning point in his life, Lorenzo got change: “I felt alive-it took my breath away. In a few hours I would leave that cellar. And everything might go back to the way it was. And yet I knew that beyond that door the world be able to talk to the others like I was one of them”(Ammaniti 143) Before Lorenzo was a unsocial boy, he afraid of everything which needs to do with others, but after he met Olivia, he danced with her, he started have confident to do social contract with outside world. Olivia is a person who know about him; a person with who can express his emotion to; a person who help him to break the wall between him and the outside world. Everyone in the world will meet this kinds of people in their life, they could be your teachers, your friends, or your parents. So Me and You demonstrates that there is no problem kid, every “unsociable people” need a person to give them confident to Contact with the Outside World, and they will all change themselves.

        Have you ever saw a genius but never show his talent to others? Will is the main character in Good Will Hunting, and he was a half-baked genius, but after he met Sean he became integrated. This story portrays that sometime people just afraid of doing something, they just need a person who could give courage to them, then they would be more than you could imagine. Will was a genius but his job was just a cleaner in MIT. Everyone in the world have their own qualities, and everyone would think they some good qualities and some bad qualities. So in their life, they would like to show their good qualities to others not their bad quality. Will didn’t wanted to show his talented because he afraid his talented would made him got away from his talent, he thought his talented is his bad quality. Because every time he use his talent, he would upset a student from famous university: or he would stimulate the psychology doctor by knowing what they were thinking in their mind. On the other hand, normal makes him gets friends. As what did Sean said to Will, “You’ll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you’re afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing 10 miles down the road”(Good Will Hunting). Will afraid of have relationship with others, so he just had a limited of friends, he didn’t trust others, the only things he trust were books, so he love reading books. When people don’t trust others, they would spending a lot of time on doing what they like, they won’t communicate with others, they may reading, they may solving some math problems, but not making friends. But Sean was different from other to Will, he is the person who would shows his true face to Will, he told many things about himself to Will, even about the death of his wife, this action break the wall between his heart and Will's heart. Will started changing himself, he started talking about himself to Sean. Another day, when Will went to visit his friend Chunk, Chuck told him, "Look,you're my best friend,so don't take this the wrong way,but in 20 years,if you're living next door to, me,coming over watching the fucking, Patriots' games and still working construction,I'll fucking kill you. And that's not a threat,that's a fact.I'll fucking kill you."(Good Will Hunting), those word gave Will courage to hell him to face the world, because the reason he didn't want to show his talent is because he afraid he would lost his friend if he show his talent. In our life, we both need a person who we could express our emotion to, we need place to release ourselves, Will didn’t have one before but now he got one, he express himself to Sean and got courage from Chuck to be himself, so he started changing himself. We didn’t need a lot to change ourselves, sometime we only need a little bit courage from others, just like Will got courage from his friend and Sean, so he became an integrated person. 

Favorite sentence

Everyone in the world will meet this kinds of people in their life, they could be your teachers, your friends, or your parents.

This sentence shows a truth that I learn in my life. People around us a special, they are all the special existence in our life, and they all help you a lot.   རཧུཀོ༄པཇེནམ།ི་

First paragraph

<<Me and You>> shows everyone in the world can change themselves, they just lack of a person who can really listen to them, if you have a person who will support, and everyone can change themselves. The main character Lorenzo was a smart kid, he was lonely and didn’t have many friends, but after he met her sister Olivia and got alone with her in the basement for few days he got affect by Olivia and changed into a normal kid who would like to get closer with outside world. Lorenzo was smart kid and a good actor: “I pretend to be a normal kid with problems”(Ammaniti 29). From this we can know he didn’t want anyone to know who he really is, so he always wore a mask in his life. Many people who shows like they was unsocial is usually smart, sometime they just want to protect themselves by not talking with others. In <<Me and You>>, Lorenzo afraid of talking with others: “You have to be very confident to make jokes in public”(Ammaniti 19). Lorenzo didn’t have confident to talk with others. Sometime, people just doesn't have the courage to do something, but courage is usually hard to get, but everything changes after he met his sister, Lorenzo describe his sister as “She’d lost a lot of weight and her square cheekbones stuck out. Her face looked stretched and tired. She wasn’t as beautiful as she had been two years ago”(Ammaniti 74). He saw Olivia, who was in a similar situation with him, didn’t have many friends, but even worse than him. So when he saw Olivia was in painful, he decided to help her, which make himself felt he really did something meaningful to somebody. It is the first time he had this kind of feeling. This was the turning point in his life, and Olivia is center in this whole event, Lorenzo got change: “I felt alive-it took my breath away. In a few hours I would leave that cellar. And everything might go back to the way it was. And yet I knew that beyond that door the world be able to talk to the others like I was one of them”(Ammaniti 143). Before Lorenzo was a unsocial boy, he afraid of everything which needs to do with others, but after he met Olivia, he danced with her, he started have confident to do social contract with outside world. Olivia is a person who know about him; a person with who can express his emotion to; a person who help him to break the wall between him and the outside world. Everyone in the world will meet this kinds of people in their life, they could be your teachers, your friends, or your parents. So <<Me and You>> demonstrates that there is no problem kid, every “unsociable people” need a person to give them confident to Contact with the Outside World, and they will all change themselves.

Thesis statement exercise

    

        <<Me and you>> and the film explore that everyone in the world have a true love, with who can give them hope, and lead them come out from the shadow to a new world. 

Snow day poem

Snow day, crazy day

I the morning I got a message

It told me we got a snow day 

It mean no homework, no classes

I can relax in this snowing day

Outside was freezing, I needed to wear my winter coat

I built a snowman, I did the snow angel

I became a snowman because of the heavy snow

I went back to the dorm and decided to have  no more outdoor exercise anymore

I slept from 11am to 5pm

It is a long time rest, and I reborn

I chat with my friends, I play with my friends

I stayed up late, and sleepover the other day

I was a snowy day

It was a crazy day

It was a happy day

I was a relax day 

Good Will Hunting thesis statement and essay outline

Good Will Hunting Thesis statement

In "Good will hunting",Will is a genius who hide his talent in his own, but in the end he changed. His life explores that every person in the world can change, Will doesn't have a lot, he only got courage from his friend, and he had Sean and Chunkie who will always support him, this tell people the only things you need to change yourself is courage, and a group of people who will support you.

Thesis statement:

Lorenzo and Will are both smart person, they were both unsocial before but they changed in the end, this explore that everyone can be change, there were no problem kid in the world. Lorenzo and Will both didn't had a lot of friends, and they didn't have the courage to face to the world, but after Lorenzo met Olivia, Will met Sean, 

In both titles, the main characters found a person with whom they could explore their emotions  and learned that the only thing you need to change yourself is courage and a person who will support you.

Essay Outline:

First paragraph:

Lorenzo is the main character in "Me and You", he is a lonely person(describe Lorenzo)........

Will is the main character in "Good Will Hunting", he is(describe).......

They are similar, they both had a big change in their life.

Topic sentence:

Lorenzo and Will is two similar person, they were both afraid to get into the society, but they both changed by the person appeared in their life.

Second paragraph:

Describe Lorenzo personalities

What is Lorenzo like before

What happen to him

What did Olivia changed him 

Topic sentence:

"Me and You" shows everyone in the world can change themselves, they just lack of a person who can really listen to them, if you have a person who will support, everyone can change themselves.

Third paragraph:

Who is Will, what kind of person is him before

How did he changed

What kind of a person he change into

Who change him

Topic sentence: 

"Good Will Hunting" explores that every person in the world can change, the only things you need is courage, and a group of people who support you.

Forth paragraph:

Similar between Lorenzo and Will

- both afraid of the society 

- both smart

- they both change themselves 

Topic sentence:

This two stories examine that there were no close person in the world. They just lack of people who can listen to them, and support them, and if they have courage everyone can change themselves.

Final paragraph:

Again compare two character

What change them

How they change

Topic sentence:

Lorenzo and Will's stories portray a kind of people in the world, Lorenzo and Will are similar, they all have some kind of social phobia, this kind of people always don't have many friends, they need people who they can talk to, they can be normal, they just need help from others.

  

Good Will Hunting summary

           “Good Will Hunting” is about a cleaner in MIT, his name is Will hunting, he has super high IQ, he always solve the problem which professor Lambeau wrote on the board in the hallway during his working time. He is a genius, but he didn’t want to show others his talent. Professor Lambeau wanted to find out who wrote the question on his board, one day when Will was doing the problem, professor met him. Professor find him, and he wanted Will can use his talent on math, but Will didn’t reply with him. After few days, Will went into the detention house, because he fought with others, Professor Lambeau promised to Will that he could let him out, but he need to do job for him and went to see a psychology doctor , Will agreed and started doing job for Professor. The psychology doctor called Sean, he is the person who changed Will’s life.

        When Will first met Sean, he told Sean that Sean should be in a bad situation, and he married with a wrong woman, because he saw there is a picture about a man in rainstorm hangs on the wall. But Sean reaction shocked Will, not like others psychology doctors, Sean didn’t hide his anger after he had been humiliated by Will. He shouted to Will told him don’t humiliate his dead wife. Sean should his real reaction to Will, this make Will changed his opinion. He found that expresses one’s anger to others didn’t mean stop the relation others. Sean said that Will just a kid. He used his talent to protect himself, he only show his talent to books, but no matter how many book he read, Will never try things in his life, he never know the things in the world, he lost a lot of feeling in his life. Will started to accept Sean, and started to talk to him.

        Sean told him to try things in his life. Don’t always hide himself. Will told Sean he loves a girl, she 

was perfect so he was afraid to get in touch with her. But Sean said nobody in the world is perfect, people just afraid to show their imperfect to the perfect people so they will never close with other. He encouraged Will to talk to the girl; nobody is perfect, if you can accept her defects, then she was the perfect to him. So Will went to find the girl, her name is Skylar. She was another person who changed Will.

        After they became couple, Will always though Skylar didn’t love him, he though he is just an excessive boyfriend to Skylar, one day she would gave up him and found another boyfriend. So when Skylar asked Will to go to California with her for her job, Will rejected her. They broke up, they both had their own logic, Skylar though she want to show her love by let Will to go to California with her, but Will think Skylar to give up him by using went to California with her as a reason. They didn’t trust each other, this make them broke up.

 

       After this, Will found his friend Chunckie, Will said it was good to stay like this, hope their kids can have a good life, but Chunkie said to Will that if when they are 50 years old, Will still stayed with him, he would killed him. He wanted Will can show his talent in the world; he didn’t want Will to waste his talent. This conversation change Will, the reason why Will didn’t want to show his talent was talent always made him stay away with others, but be a normal person can let him had friends like Chunkies. He afraid his talent would let him lost Chunkies who was one of the only people who supported him in the world. But when Chunkies told him this, he decided to face to the world. When he went into Sean room again, he laid in Sean’s hug and cry, this show him he started accept other in his life.

       In the end of the story, Will drove the car that his friend gave him to California to find Skylar. He changed himself. 

Movie list

The Shawshank Redemption

Andy is a banker, he went into jail because of unjust case, in the jail he met many people, those people change his life, those people give him hope in the jail, it make him escape successfully from the jail. As the movie slogan said, "Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."

Good Will Hunting

The movie is about a cleaner in MIT(Will hunting), he had high IQ, but he is a bad boy in the society, the professor wants to help him, and doesn't want him to waste his math talent. In the end, Will Hunting and professor Lambeau become friend, professor helps Will come out from the shadow in his heat and be himself. 

The King's speech 

George VI was the Prince of England, he had stammer though his speech. This was bad for a prince, that he couldn't speak in front of public. Under his wife help, he overcome his stammer and did a successful speech to courage the army in war.