Final

      Minh Anh Duong

      English IS

      Ms. Guarino

      2.3.2015

        

                                        Power of Love.

The movie, Up directed by Pete Doctor and the novel Me and You written by Ammaniti show us how important love around us is. Love can change another person. In the movie and the novel when the main characters feel like they have love and care from other people, they see life more positively. They don't feel like they are useless. They change to completely different people. And the movie Up and the novel Me and you is the best example of love can be changes life.

In the novel, Me and You, the love that Lorenzo gets from Olivia makes changes in Lorenzo’s personality completely. Before when Olivia doesn’t come to Lorenzo life. Lorenzo is just a person who is very quiet and anti-social. He always has a lot of emotion but he cannot control his emotions so he easily gets angry. That is the reason why he doesn’t have a very good relationship with people. He becomes like that because he doesn't have enough love from his parents or anybody else. His dad is too busy with work and doesn’t have enough time for him. His mother and him always fight and is seem like his mother doesn’t care about him. That is one of the reasons why he decides to stay in the basement alone besides having fun with his friends on the ski trip. But he doesn’t expect that journey to change his life forever. There is a moment in the journey that changes Lorenzo’s life forever. That is when Lorenzo and Olivia dance together. “ But that evening I danced, and when I danced I felt something I’d never felt before. I felt alive- took my breath away” ( Ammaniti 146 ). That moment when they dance. Olivia gives Lorenzo the feeling of love, the feeling that he never had before. After that, Lorenzo changes to another person. He becomes more outgoing. He sees life more positively. He wants to live a better life to show Olivia how he changes.

In the other hand the love than Lorenzo give to Olivia, somehow changes Olivia to. Before she is very prissy and having a very hard life because she having to much drink and heroin. But after the journey with Lorenzo under the basement she have the promise that she will never be on drunk or heroin again, but in the end she died to because she was having to much drunk that mean she didn’t keep the promised with Lorenzo. In my opinions throw thought ten yeas she always is trying hard to keep the promised with Lorenzo, but is really different when she is in the basement Lorenzo and when she walk out side that basement without Lorenzo. Because when she is inside the basement with Lorenzo the power of love that Lorenzo give to her; makes her feel very strong. She feel like she can do everything, not thing is impossible Love can change us. It causes us to do things we wouldn’t normally do” (Joshua Becker). But when she walk outside the basement she doesn’t have love from anybody, no body is their for her anymore so she cannot fight again drunk alone so see choice to get into it again. That is other small example of how powerful and important love its. “Thank you grandpa” the word that Russell gives to Fredrickson when he gives Russell the award that his wife give it to him when they was younger when.

        

There are a lot of similar things between the novel Me and You, and the movie, Up. The main character in Up is Fredrickson. He is just a lonely old man after his wife died. And, like Lorenzo, Fredrickson doesn't have love in his life. This not having love makes him more negative. He becomes angry with everybody. One day when the worker broke his mailbox by accident, but Fredrickson is very angry so he hit the worker very hard in the hand and makes him bleeding. That is another example of the gentle and shy Fredrickson have change when his wife died. To keep the promise with his wife he decides to fly to Paradise Falls with the house. Again this is the same with Lorenzo because he took a journey to change his life forever. Russell is similar character to Olivia. He is the most important person, in the Fredrickson changing his life. Like Olivia, he came into Fredrickson’s life by accident, and took a journey with him. But with the innocence, brightly of children and mostly the love that he gives to old people and love everything make Mr. Fredrick change the way he sees life. “Wait for me! I’m going to safe you Russell” he said when Russell goes to save the bird alone. We can see the power of love in Fredrickson for Russell when he says that. He finally finds other people that love him after his wife dies. After all, Fredrickson treat Russell like his grandson. He also changes to other person. He becomes more out-going; he smiles more; he sees life very positive, and he lives in happy with Russell. They treat each other like a member in their family.

“ Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world”(Marc Chertoff ). This quotes is the best way to describe Lorenzo and Mr. Fredrickson when they have love from Olivia and Russell. The love that hey can smile more in life They change to other person. They do things that they wouldn’t normally do before. After all we can see love is not just between boy and girls. Love can be between brother and sister, between grandparent and grandson, and we know that love can change other people life. Finally love is not only can change another person life, its even can same other person life.