Milica

=‍Task 1: ‍= Charlie Fineman is a middle-aged man who lives in New York. He lost his family in the tragedy 9/11. He lost his lovely wife Doreen, his three daughters and his dog, Spider. They were going to visit Doreen’s sister in Boston and Charlie didn’t follow them because he had much job to do. They took Spider with them because they didn’t trust Charlie to take care of the dog. Charlie was going to meet them at Doreen’s younger cousins wedding in Los Angeles. The last thing Charlie said to his daughters was that they couldn’t visit Disneyland because if they were going to do that ‍they were going to miss too much school. ‍ Like you said, it's very ironic that Charlie denied that they couldn't visit Disneyland because they were going to miss school. It's a sad thing to say, but after the accident they were going to miss the school forever... When Charlie heard the news he couldn’t believe it. He just closed his feelings, cut the contact with everybody and lived in the “Charlie world”. He always drove around in New York, from west to east and north to south on his scooter with his earphones on highest volume. One day, a man called Alan Johnson saw Charlie coming out from a paint-store. Alan stopped the car in the middle of the road and jumped out to call at him, but he didn’t answer him because he had his earphones on. In some parts of the movie I can understand Charlie in his situation. You can't just get over a tragedy like that insome months, it takes time to let it go totally. It was even harder for Charlie to let go of a thing like that because he kept it inside and never talked about it. When he finally told his story to Alan, his A few days later, Alan drove his daughter to a friend’s house and then he saw Charlie again.  This time he screamed and __run__ after him to get his attention, and Charlie stopped. Charlie didn’t remember Alan, but they had been __collage__-roommates __in__ 2 years. When Alan said some memories he started to remember and he liked to talk to Alan. They first went to a café for some coffee and later Charlie wanted to show Alan his house. When they got in Alan understood that Charlie was renovating the kitchen, but he never got answers why. The time is passing by and they spent more and more time together. They went to cinemas, __play__ videogames at Charlie’s place and much more. When Alan thought it was the right time to ask a little bit about how he had felt when he had lost his family in the tragedy he just said “I never had a family” and __get’s__ really angry and __furriest__. Alan thought he had to let it out and talk to someone about what had happened, but they just started to fight and screaming at each other. They got in a big fight when Alan __find__ out that his grandfather died. He had been sick for a very long time, and Charlie couldn’t handle it, he didn’t know what to say. The only thing he said was that they could do something funny so he didn’t think about his grandfather.

I think they got into that “fight” was because Charlie got some memories in his head about his family that he had lost. Though he can’t talk about his family that passed away without getting a little bit insane, he couldn’t be that understanding without freaking out and scream at Alan. A couple of days later, Alan got a very strange __messenger__ from Charlie’s layer, he wants to give Alan 1.000.000 dollars because he wants to apologize, but Alan couldn’t accept it so he called Charlie and they became friends again. Alan is still trying to convince Charlie to go to a very good friends and an even better __psychology__ to talk about his problems. One lucky day, Charlie understood his problem and he went to the psychiatrist. They had some meetings and he remembered more and more, but when he remembered too much, he just went out. The days were passing by and the meetings didn’t make Charlie any better. But one day he just sat down with Alan and just told the whole story. He told him everything from the beginning to the end. Everyone thought Charlie was going to get better, but he didn’t. He went home and __looks__ at old romantic movies and drank for the first time. He went to his room, took a gun and went out. He shot when he saw the police and they arrested him.

From being locked up with his thoughts to tell everything in a cuple of minutes his brain maybe got a little bit overloaded and he just lost his mind. He didn't knew what he was doing and just shot in the air. It was a little bit too much for him and after he did it he really regret it. Alan, the psychiatrist and a friend __for__ them all were going to the court with Charlie. Charlie’s mother and father in law were also coming. The court was very hard for Charlie to handle. The prosecutor was forcing Charlie to look at pictures of his family because he knew that Charlie was going to lose it and that he was going to scream. Charlie was panicking and ran out of the court. He couldn’t handle it. When the judge decided that Charlie didn’t needed help from the hospital, Charlie decided to move away and just start over. His life is going to be much better and he can more and more talk about the tragedy.

= = =Task 2:= <range type="comment" id="425124">‍ ‍ This picture reminds me of Charlie and his family before the hijackers crashed the planes into the World Trade Center. In the film "Reign over me" he said that he had a very happy family and that his life was perfect. The people on this picture seems to be very happy and they also seems to be a great family that loves eachother. He sure had a wonderful family that loves him and he and his wife probably spent every day playing with their 3 beautiful kids. I can imagine what he has been through. One day his life was perfect and everything was the way it should and the second day he lost everything. It's not strange that he behave like he does. He had lost almost everyone he loved and his life went from perfect to a disaster. I feel very bad for him, I would never want to be in his shoes.

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 * P. 41 – Music should be your escape.**

Every time Charlie’s friends or someone who want to help Charlie asked him about his family or something that happened in 9/11 he put his earphones on and just lives in “Charlie’s world”. He think that music is his escape, but if he really wants to get better, he should try to talk about what really happened and not just ignore it.


 * P. 42 – Nothing is ever the same, not even future.**

When Charlie lost his family, he lost everything. They were the only thing he had. He was going to start over completely and he hadn’t anyone close to talk to before Alan. Charlie is never going to have the same family and he’s never going to live like he used to.


 * P. 115 – Good friends are the best medicine.**

When Alan and Charlie started to hang out and they began to trust each other Alan started to ask some questions about his family and about how he had felt, but Charlie just got angry and didn’t answered. But when the time was right, Charlie opened up and Alan was there for him.