Ending of Me and You

Minseung Kim

1/30/2015

Ms. Guarino

English II (IS) - 2

Sad Ending of the Book

    Finally our class finish read ‘Me and You’. However ‘Me and You’ had really sad ending for one of main character Olivia died in the end of the book. I felt very strange and surprised by end of the book. I could not expect that Olivia died after 10 years, but I expected little about Lorenzo and Olivia’s relationship became better in the cellar.

In my opinion if somebody read this book, than nobody could not expect this ending. This is the story about book at first. At first Lorenzo’s half sister Olivia asked that stay with Lorenzo in cellar together for a while. However that time Lorenzo did not want any disturb from anybody. Also he did not go to ski trip and lied to his mother, so he had to stay quiet for secret, but Olivia intimidated to Lorenzo that shouted to everybody about Lorenzo and said he did not go to ski trip and hid in cellar. Olivia was very smart to tried to live with Lorenzo, so Lorenzo could not ignore her and brought her inside of cellar to hid her too. Already their relationship was not that good at first. However during they were living in cellar together, Olivia was very sick because of took too many drugs. Lorenzo thought he had to help Olivia, so he tried to go to get her medicine and went to hospital for her. After Lorezno came to cellar with medicine, Lorenzo thought Olivia died and he felt really sad, but she did not die.  In this part I expected that their relationship could be become better, because Lorenzo always worried Olivia a lot.  

In the last night in the basement, Olivia and Lorenzo decided to eat all of food they got and after eat everything, they found a record player and they turned on music. Olivia started to dance and she made Lorenzo to dance with her. After he danced and have fun with Olivia he felt alive.

“Lorenzo felt alive-it took my breth away. In a few hours he would leave that cellar. And everything might go back to the way it was. And yet he knew that beyond that door the world was waiting for me, and that Lorenzo would be able to talk to the others like he was one of them. Lorenzo  could go to boarding school. He could change the furniture in his bedroom.” (Me and You, page 143) Lorenzo felt that he could be change everything. After when their relationship became better  I think Olivia tried to make Lorenzo grew up and she adviced to Lorenzo a lot. Also Olivia said that she would go to Bali, because she had a boy friend there and she said that Lorenzo would like him. Lorenzo might be felt very comfortable, because Olivia told to Lorenzo that she had place to go.

However after 10 years Olivia died by drugs overdose. I think this ending is very sad, because Olivia and Lorenzo might meet together and have celebrate together for their meeting, but ending did not end like that. I think Olivia wanted to give advice to her young half brother and lied to him that she went to Bali for make him comfortable. I loved this book at first part, but I wish ending change.