Best and meaningful end of the book

Best and meaningful end of the book

The ending pull the time back to the present. Olivia died by overdose so they finally meet again. Be with together once again, ending at “me and you” is kind of recalling of the whole book.

This ending is my favorite as well as Lorenzo's. It’s simple, surprised and meaningful.  No matter with what Olivia overdose or their promised, even the death of Olivia has impact a lot. Though the ending of book is very simple, we can find that Lorenzo would not be lonely since the ski week end.

Actually Lorenzo didn’t keep the promise. He met Olivia again after she had dead. So they didn’t stay together again.

We don’t know what overdose led Olivia died, maybe the sleeping pills but I prefer the drugs overdose. She died ten years later, if she could not bear the pain from the after taste of drugs, she would try to kill herself earlier. But it’s possible if she overdose the drugs during the ten years. Now we know, none of them kept the promise.

Olivia keep Lorenzo’s phone number forever: “Your sister’s purse had a little piece of paper with you number on it.” ( author # 152). But she never call him. She had no brave to call him because she took drugs again. She doesn’t want to lose her brother so she kept “him” into her pocket. Lorenzo may don’t know she took again but he didn’t need her any more, he became a normal person after Olivia left.

Compare with Grandma and Olivia. Grandma death may be a terrible scene, because when she dying, she was ugly: “ A pile of bones covered by…” ( author # 117). But Olivia must be died in peace: “ She looks like she’s sleeping.” ( author # 153). Before Lorenzo be normal, his Grandma was his only shelter. He didn’t want her die. But when he see Olivia died, he just peaceful and love her, he even didn’t know her had died. It’s totally different between Grandma and Olivia because he had been different. The difference between Grandma and Olivia impacts Lorenzo had been normal.

I don’t respect that Lorenzo and Olivia would have better relationship and keep in touch each other after she left. Drugs is not easy to give up, and promise with little kid is powerless. It didn’t change Olivia but Lorenzo, he would play with the other kids, like “Fantastic Four”. He would not need Olivia to be his shelter to instead his dying Grandma, he would not need any single person any more because he had every body in the world if he wants since ski week ended.

First I read this book, I found that I just as same as Lorenzo: I trick others, do not play with them, do my own business and beat someone if they annoy me. We also can’t learn ourselves, I can know others very well but me, I don’t know what kind of people I actually am. I read the book again and again, finally I know, I need to talk to others, I need to trust others. When I communicating with others, It’s discovering myself.