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.
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