This is a blog for Ms. Brennan's English 2 IS class.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Me and You, Blog 4
How does the protagonist feel like an outsider? How does he/she deal
with his/her outsider status? Find a quote from the book that supports your
conclusions.
Lorenzo felt like an outsider for some reasons. First, he took therapy for narcissistic personality disorder when he was little. Second, he could not understand the interests of other boys such as football. However, in order to make his parents satisfied, he must to play football and make some friends. Third, he thought that he was different from a normal person, he believed that he had an inflated sense of self-importance. For most of the times, he controlled his emotion and imitated himself as different things to deal with his outsider status. This is one of the quotes that can support my opinions, “ I camouflaged myself like a stick insect on dry branches. And I learned to control my anger. I imagined that I had a tank in my stomach, and when it filled up I emptied it out through my feet and the anger ended up in the ground and penetrated into the world’s guts and was burned up by the eternal flames. Now nobody bothered me.” ( p.31, Ammaniti)
This protagonist do not have friend beside when he is in a private school. Nobody likes him and think he is weird because of he is not "cool" . Actually it is all th disorder 's fault. I am the best among everybody is what this diorder brings. He think he is so important and everybody else is not. He is immortal. This is one of the quotes that can support my idea:" On my own I was happy, with the others I always had to pretend." He never change himself but pretending. Also it supports that he think himself is "special"
When the protagonist get in high school he just being like "I am on my own way", that shows Lorenzo just like I am an outsider. He don't understand why his " friends" are liking something that is wired but I feel like those are the common things. Such as making friends, playing sports... And also, before in chapter 1, it told use Lorenzo has the narcissistic personality disorder. The reason of his make friends is because he wants to make his parents happy. I found a quote from the book that supports my conclusions:“When I walked up to the entrance of the high school on my first day I almost fainted.” Ammaniti, Niccolò. “Me and You.”
This is an interesting quote, R. Can you say more about how this supports the claim that Lorenzo is isolated? What, specifically, made him almost want to pass out?
Lorenzo is outsider and he just deals with it.He just admit the fact that he is outsider. A quote that supports my opinion is " I moved over until I was a couple of metres from the group, and in the end it was easy to work out what was going out."
This protagonist feels like an outsider because he doesn't have any firends, most of the people around him thinks that he is not the type of cool kids and he himself doesn't really care about either. In the start of chapter 5, he says " I wasn't crazy about the idea of washing myself with cold water and, besides, it didn't matter if I stank. Who was going to get a whiff of me anyway?" So by the way he thinks about himself, he didn't expect anyone to care about him and that what makes him don't care.
Lorenzo feels like an outsider because he’s thinking back about the time his mother was in a car accident and he was in the car. He wanted to help her out as the man was calling his mother a bitch – but he didn’t know what to do. In the beginning of the chapter he was happy to be in the car with his mother because the world was outside the car windows and he was with his mother in a traffic bubble. Again, he feels like an outsider – not a part of the real world. Quote – “I realized that I was happy. The world was a outside the car windows, and Mum and I were in a traffic bubble. There was no school, not even homework or those billions of things I should be doing to become an adult.”
Lorenzo felt like an outsider for some reasons. First, he took therapy for narcissistic personality disorder when he was little. Second, he could not understand the interests of other boys such as football. However, in order to make his parents satisfied, he must to play football and make some friends. Third, he thought that he was different from a normal person, he believed that he had an inflated sense of self-importance. For most of the times, he controlled his emotion and imitated himself as different things to deal with his outsider status. This is one of the quotes that can support my opinions, “ I camouflaged myself like a stick insect on dry branches. And I learned to control my anger. I imagined that I had a tank in my stomach, and when it filled up I emptied it out through my feet and the anger ended up in the ground and penetrated into the world’s guts and was burned up by the eternal flames. Now nobody bothered me.” ( p.31, Ammaniti)
ReplyDeleteThis is a great quote to support Lorenzo's isolation. Remember to cite like this: (Ammaniti 31).
DeleteThis protagonist do not have friend beside when he is in a private school. Nobody likes him and think he is weird because of he is not "cool" . Actually it is all th disorder 's fault. I am the best among everybody is what this diorder brings. He think he is so important and everybody else is not. He is immortal. This is one of the quotes that can support my idea:" On my own I was happy, with the others I always had to pretend." He never change himself but pretending. Also it supports that he think himself is "special"
ReplyDeleteThis is a very good quote, William.
DeleteWhen the protagonist get in high school he just being like "I am on my own way", that shows Lorenzo just like I am an outsider. He don't understand why his " friends" are liking something that is wired but I feel like those are the common things. Such as making friends, playing sports... And also, before in chapter 1, it told use Lorenzo has the narcissistic personality disorder. The reason of his make friends is because he wants to make his parents happy. I found a quote from the book that supports my conclusions:“When I walked up to the entrance of the high school on my first day I almost fainted.” Ammaniti, Niccolò. “Me and You.”
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting quote, R. Can you say more about how this supports the claim that Lorenzo is isolated? What, specifically, made him almost want to pass out?
DeleteLorenzo is outsider and he just deals with it.He just admit the fact that he is outsider. A quote that supports my opinion is " I moved over until I was a couple of metres from the group, and in the end it was easy to work out what was going out."
ReplyDeleteAmy, this is an interesting quote. Can you say more about how it supports the claim that Lorenzo is an outsider?
DeleteThis protagonist feels like an outsider because he doesn't have any firends, most of the people around him thinks that he is not the type of cool kids and he himself doesn't really care about either. In the start of chapter 5, he says " I wasn't crazy about the idea of washing myself with cold water and, besides, it didn't matter if I stank. Who was going to get a whiff of me anyway?" So by the way he thinks about himself, he didn't expect anyone to care about him and that what makes him don't care.
ReplyDeleteVery true, Jason.
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ReplyDeleteLorenzo feels like an outsider because he’s thinking back about the time his mother was in a car accident and he was in the car. He wanted to help her out as the man was calling his mother a bitch – but he didn’t know what to do.
In the beginning of the chapter he was happy to be in the car with his mother because the world was outside the car windows and he was with his mother in a traffic bubble. Again, he feels like an outsider – not a part of the real world.
Quote – “I realized that I was happy. The world was a outside the car windows, and Mum and I were in a traffic bubble. There was no school, not even homework or those billions of things I should be doing to become an adult.”
This is a great quote, Mark.
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