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Betty Huang 

                                            The Change of Cocoon

           What is love? Love is a giant mutual power which can connect people's hearts, lets them become closer and changes their personalities. No one wants to always be alone and always be the "different type" in others' eyes. Everyone yearns for someone who could give a little piece of love to them, care about them and never give up on them. This love will change them. In Me and You, Olivia trusts Lorenzo and shares her feelings with him, and gives Lorenzo a special experience of being needed, which lets Lorenzo know how to care about other people and actually do something to help others; In the film, Lilo&Stitch, Lilo teaches Stitch the meaning of love and family, and she shares her’s with Stitch, making him feel warm and safe. Because of this, Stitch changes from an evil cold-blood monster to an important indispensable member of Lilo's little sweet family. Because of two Olivia and Lilo’s gentleness and patience, Lorenzo and Stitch open their minds and become to more caring people. 

             Me and You shows how Lorenzo, an isolated boy, opens his mind and becomes to a mature and reliable man because of the days which he spent with Olivia in the cellar. Lorenzo used to be a lonely boy who was lack of safety, and he does not trust anyone because when he was a little boy his father forced him to swim by suddenly throwing him into the sea, although he was very afraid of water. “You were down in the cockpit playing with your toys, they came up to you from behind, slipped your armbands off and you started wriggling, yelling like they were skinning you alive” (Ammaniti 139) that was what Olivia saw by herself. This indicates how terrible Lorenzo’s father is. He does not care about Lorenzo’s feeling at all. The way he treats his own kid is kind of cruel. The actions which Lorenzo did show he was extremely scared because of this, and this is a horrible experience for him which left an unforgettable nightmare in his deep mind. This is reason why Lorenzo resists trusting people because he was betrayed by one of his dearest people. He lost the ability of trust and closed his mind when he was a such young boy. He cannot get involved with others, and he shows his tough and stubborn side in order to protect himself. He lies to his mother that he is going to the ski trip with his friends, but actually he is hiding in the cellar alone. This portrays that a lonely and sympatric boy locks himself in his own world which is like the dark cellar and refuses to feel the sunshine outside. He needs someone to open the door of the dark room inside his heart. 

                 Olivia is the one who changes Lorenzo because she rushed into Lorenzo’s world accidentally and brought him a totally different experience which he has never had before. She is an addict, and she has bad relationship with others, specifically, her father. When she was suffering by withdrawal, she came to the cellar.  At first, Lorenzo did not want Olivia to come in because he does not trust Olivia. He is vigilant against her because he was afraid that Olivia would reveal his secret. However, when he let her in and sees: “she looked liked she’d been chewed up and spat out by a monster who had found her too bitter to eat” (Ammaniti 91) he feels pity for her. So Lorenzo takes care of her and finds medicine for her, and he feels like he is a useful man, a hero. This portrays that the feeling of being needed is amazing, and it gains Lorenzo sense of accomplishment by helping his half-sister, which holds two young person’s hearts closer little by little. Lorenzo is no longer as selfish as before and he learns how to care about others because of this. Because of Lorenzo’s great efforts, Olivia feels better. She has a heart-to-heart talk with Lorenzo and dances with him: “ But that evening I danced, and when I danced I felt something I’d never felt before. I felt alive-it took my breath away”(Ammaniti 143). This shows that because of Olivia, Lorenzo overcomes the thing which he hates the most-dancing, and he feels alive which he is dancing. This is a certainly new experience for him.  Lorenzo is thinking: “I knew that beyond that door the world was waiting for me, and that I would be able to talk to the others like I was one of them. I could leave. I could go to boarding school. I could change the furniture in my bedroom” (Ammaniti 143). This shows that because of Olivia, Lorenzo starts to think about his own, think about his life and think about the world around him. He discovers the truly himself which is hopeful and positive. He starts to use his heart to feel, and everything suddenly becomes bright and meaningful. He is changing little by little like a cocoon which is going to get out the struggle and ready to become a butterfly. 

My Favorite Sentence

His heart beats again, his blood flows again because of Olivia, which means she wakes up a completely different Lorenzo, who is warm-heart and reliable. 

This sentence is my favorite sentence because I think it kind of beautiful, and I am very pleased of that. And this sentence also shows the change of Lorenzo because of Olivia which is a very important sentence. 

Yubin's thesis statement

In both Me and You and the film show that both of their main characters changed because they found hope and true love on the other main characters when they were selfish and indifferent. That special feelings they had never experience before which made them open their minds and became to more caring people. 

Thesis statement+outline

Thesis statement: 

Both Lorenzo and Stitch understood how to love and care about others becuase of they recieved and understood the love from Olivia and Lilo, and they were not hematocryal monsters any more. That because the power of love can change people.

1.There is no absolute heinous people in the world, on one wants to always be alone and always be the "different types" in others' eyes. Everyone yearns for that someone could give a little piece of love to them, care about them and never give up them. They will have an amazing change. Olivia trusts Lorenzo and shares her feelings with him, and Lorenzo finally knows how to care about other people and actually does something to help others in Me and You; Lilo teaches Stitch the meaning of love and family, and she gives Stitch a family which he could feel warm and safe. At the end Stitch changes from a evil hematocryal monster in to an important member of Lilo's little sweet family in Lilo & Stitch. 

2. Love is a great mutual power. It could connect people's hearts and let them become closer. It definitely can change people, and it can change not only the person who is being loved but also change the person who is giving love to others.  In Me and You, not only Olivia changes beacuse of the help of Lorenzo, but also Lorenzo changes from a selfish boy who does not know how to love and how to get on well with others, into a reliable gentle man becuase he did many things to help Olivia, and this is his first time to do something for others; He experienced the feeling of being needed.  In Lilo & Stitch, Stitch changes from a evil hematocryal monster to a sensible helpful "pet" of Lilo's family because Lilo never give up him, and she always sees Stitch as a member of her family. Also, Lilo understands that she needs to be morewell-behaved, and she was no longer a naugthy stubborn girl becuase she understands the meaning of "family" deeper that before.

Outline:

1.Introductions+Thesis statement

2.body paragraph: How was Lorenzo acting before he met Olivia

                                  What did he actually feel instead of doing what he did. (might become a new                     paragraph)

3.   body paragraph: What did Olivia do which changed Lorenzo

4.   body paragraph: How was Stitch acting before he met Lilo

                                  What did he feel when Lilo tell him about the meaning of love and family (might become a new paragraph)

5.   body paragraph: What did Lilo do to change Stitch 

6.   Conclusion

Outline:

1.Introduction+Thesis statement

2.Body paragraph: How did Lorenzo act before he spent several days with Olivia

3.Body paragraph: How did Olivia act before she spent several days with Lorenzo.

4.Body paragraph: How did they change each other by spending several days together

5.Body paragraph: How did Stitch act before he met Lilo

6.Body paragraph: How did Lilo act before she met Stitch

7.Body paragraph: How did they change each other.

8.Conclusion 

Lorenzo provides Olivia place to live, tries to save her life when she was suffering of the drug addiction and takes care of her. He learnt how to love and care about other by doing those things for Olivia, and that also changes Olivia. She shares her true feelings with Lorenzo, helps him answer his mother's phone call, and promises him that she will not take drugs anymore.  Love helps those people understand that they are being needed or being cared about by others. Love does not unilateral exist. 

Snow Day Poem

a piano player in the dinning hall

slept in the dorm

woke up by the alarm

checked my email surprisingly

withdraw the curtain excitingly

the wind ripped out the snowflakes

sound like they sing a wild poem

put on winter coat and hat

walk on the road carefully like a cat

the dinning hall's heat

covered my glasses by steam

hold a hot chocolate and added some cream

the sound of piano raised next to me

a man was playing the song of Debussy

Lilo & Sitich

                                                                    Lilo&Sitich

         The movie is about a little blue dog-like monster which is rough, rude and wild called the experiment NO.626 which was created by a alien scientist, escaped from the spaceship to the Earth. He wanted to avoid from being caught by those aliens. He landed on the Earth, Hawaii and had been adopted accidentally by a girl named Lilo. Lilo was a girl who always had those different ideas, and she was kind of stubborn; she lived with her sister, for her parents had gone because of the car accident. They were poor, and she did not have friends, although she really wanted one; other girls treated her differently because they seemed Lilo as plague. Lilo’s relationship with her sister was close and they were really important to each other, but they always argued and yelled at each other. Life was pretty hard for them, and Lilo was going to be taken away because the government thought that her sister did not have ability to take care of Lilo. 

           Sitich was like a gift for Lilo which was sent by the God. Lilo’s wish was to have a friend who will never leave her. Sitich was the one. 

             At first, Sitich made tons of troubles because he was designed to destroy everything. He was smarter than a super computer so that he was a truly trouble maker. He broke the shelf, teared down the pillow, bit the camera and hit people. However, Lilo never give up him; she kept teaching him how to be a model citizen and the meaning of “love” and “family” which means “ nobody will be left behind or forgotten.” She treated him as a member of her little broken but glued family. She changed Sitich little by little. 

               “ It’s interesting, 626 was designed to destroy, what if he has nothing to destroy?”. Scientist Jiangba said. Sitich read the book of Ugly Duckling and he felt lost same as the feeling of the lost ugly duckling. He started to hope that if he could have a family and have some one who care about him, because of Lilo’s words and the story. "I'm waiting. Family. Maybe I could have one." This is what Sitich said when he met Jiangba in the woods. Finally, Sitich did not appointed Lilo; He tried his best to save Lilo, when was caught by captian Gantoo, and he definitely did it perfectly. 

             The ending of the story was warm. Sitich was allowed to stay in the Earth with Lilo, and the life of this little sweet family became better and better.       

The 3 movies

<Home>

it was made by DreamWorks Studio.

It talks about a kind of E.T. all from a planet which was really far away from Earth and came to Earth to avoid the attact from the E.T from another planet. Their personalities were dishonest, boring, coward and selfish. They took control of the Earth and placed all of the human to a tiny place on the Earth. One little girl escaped from E.T. and was the only human left in the cities; she was creative, brave, friendly and warm-heart, and she was pretty stubborn. She wanted to find her mother, and then she met an E.T. who was hiding from others because he made a huge mistake and can not be forgiven. As a result, they worked together and got on a same car, but they had exactly different goals.  

<Spirit>

It talks about a tough strong young horse who was caught by human. Many people wanted to tame him, but they all failed. There was a young native man who was really good at geting on well with horses, and they spent a long time together. Finally, the horse admited that the man is his friend and let him rode on his back. The young man is the person who change the horse to become more docile and skilled. Then the horse had been caught by the army, and the young man helped the horse to escape.

<Lilo & Sitich>

It was one of the most famous flims. It talks about a little blue monster called experiment No.626 escaped to the Earth because they wanted to kill it. He was tough, rude and wild. He was accidently adopted by a little girl from Hawaii whoes name was Lilo. Lilo lived with her sister and nonoe of her parents were taking care of them. They were sort of poor, and Lilo was a trouble maker. She could not get on well with her classmates. Lilo taught Sitich how to love and care people who were important to them. Finally, Sitich became one of the member of Lilo's family.