Cornelia

//**‍‍‍Reign over me. ‍‍‍**//
The twin tower attack destroyed many lives and hundreds of people __lost__ their families and friends on that day. One of them is Charlie Fineman. __He lives__ on his own in New York City and every day is a mess for him. The fact is, Charlie lost his whole family in the 9/11 plane crash. His wife and three daughters __was__ on the plane on their way home from Boston, when the disaster __happens__. So Charlie shuts down, __quit__ his job and disappears in to his own little world, protecting himself from painful memories. After a while he doesn’t remember anything from his previous life. But one day, he bumps into his old college roommate on the street. Alan Johnson lives a perfect life whit a beautiful wife, kids and a good job; everything Charlie once had. At first Charlie didn’t recognize him, but after talking over a cup of coffee the memories starts to come back. Alan sees how destroyed Charlie is and decides to take up the contact whit him again in an attempt to help him out. But Charlie doesn’t want any help, in fact, every time Alan tries to talk whit him about the accident Charlie starts to panic and scream at Alan to leave him alone. And when Alan __try__ to get him to talk to a psychiatrist he won’t listen. So Alan almost gives up an instead he just tries to be a good friend to Charlie and supports him by just being there __for__ him. And the more he __hang__ out whit Charlie the more he realizes how free it is to live a life when you don’t care fore anything or anyone. __With__ Charlie he starts to live a life __with__ more fun and late nights out just doing nothing, which results in getting more confident, and he even dare to stand up to his boss who has been very unfair to him in many ways. But less time home also includes less time __with__ his family and his wife starts to take more and more distance __from__ him. So after another reckless outbreak from Charlie, Alan realizes that he needs to find a way to help him whit his problems. And at last he convinced him to __met with__ a psychologist, a young girl called Angela that Alan himself used to go to, and at first it doesn’t go so well. Charlie refuses to open up and the psychiatrist starts to lose hope. But one day, after a meaningless meeting __with__ Angela, Charlie starts to talk. He tells Alan the whole story about his __live__ before, about his little girls and his wife, and most importable, about what happened the day they died. Alan thought it would help him, but instead it turns out the other way. The same night, Charlie gets overwhelmed by his emotions, so he takes a gun __with__ him out on the streets and __threatened__ to __shoot__ a man and two police officers before they could take him to the police station, where __they decides__ to get him on a trial. When that day comes, the only friends and family he’s got is Alan and his family, and Ginger and Jonathan, his own mother and father in law, who tried to make contact whit him for many years but really never succeeded. They’re now all together in the court, but the problem is that the mother and father aren’t on Charlie’s side. They blame him for taking the death so hard that he can’t even take real care __fore__ himself, so the only supporting people that’s on his side __are__ really just Alan and his own lawyer. Everything points at that Charlie will be looked up either in prison or in a mental hospital, but after some bad and manipulating moves from the enemy lawyer, the decision lays in the hands of Ginger and Jonathan. They have over night to think of what to do but after a talk whit the judge they change their minds. Charlie gets released but is forced to move away to another place down town. Still keeping his contact whit Alan he slowly starts to get better. All the dramatic accidents that happened made him realize that he can’t live in a bubble anymore and that by open up his mind to people he trust, in the end makes him stronger. And for Alan’s part everything got better and better. He also learned to open up more, to his wife and people around him, and he stopped __living__ in a daily routine. The quiet Alan that once lived a boring trapped __life__ is now more confident than ever, all thanks to Charlie.

The support that a friend or family member can give means more than anything else in times like these. To suffer through something like loosing someone near is very hard, and even if you mostly just __fells__ that you want to be alone, it’s important to have people you know you can talk __with__, or just be with and cry out to. I did recently lose someone in my family. My grandfather died three and a half week ago and my whole family have had a hard time lately. We all still feel very sad and I miss him so much. But we have all supported each other and __its__ important that you let each other be down and cry when you need to. So I know the key of having good friends and family, but if you like Charlie don’t, you’re holding in __with__ the sorrow and it’s more likely that you create a shell around yourself.

Task 2. Pictures


The picture represents the memory of all the people that __gone__ lost in the 9/11th attacks. The __victum’s__ __families__ and friends __was__ badly affected by the disaster and many people all around New York had a hard time to move on, like example Charlie. He lost his whole family in the plane crash and after that his life turned upside down. But when you have near and __supporting__ friends helping you, you always find your way up from the sadness and pain. The best thing you can do in a situation like this is to support each other as much as you can. After the crash Charlie didn´t have anyone near to share his pain with and he creates his own little world to escape to when life gets to hard. But when Alan shows up, Charlie learns to open up and his real life slowly starts to come back to him again.

Task 3. ‍‍‍Quotations ‍‍‍.
At first, Charlie has given up but then Alan makes him realize that if you just keep on fighting you can continue your life and move on. And in the end it gets better for Charlie, when he starts fight his way up again.
 * //“As long as you don’t give up, you haven’t lost”//**

Charlie is in his own little world when he is listening to music and whenever life gets hard he escapes into his world of music and he can calm down. Music is in many ways a good medicine and it can help in many different situations.
 * //“Music should be your escape”//**

Charlie is trying to escape the truth by forgetting the accident, but when Alan makes him to remember he gets that the only way to really move on is to face the truth and don’t hide from it.
 * //“The truths that you don’t want to hear is the ones that you need to listen to the most.”//**