19. From the quote from the book, it is the description of Lorenzo's mental action. After he got to know that her sister is a junkie, and how she hated their father, he felt really angry on his sister. But she threatened Lorenzo as the way with "telling others that he hides under the cellar", he was scared and forced to let his sister stay with him. The things that really changed his mind is how suffered his sister was, and he is the only person who can really help her. Compare with the life that Lorenzo spent before, he hasn't got that kind of experience which others need him. He started to think if there is something that he could help. Then the description mentioned,"The giant that had been holding me up against his stone chest had let me go", which just showed us how Lorenzo changed and start to help.
22. As a normal reader, and based on how dreamlike the last day they spent, I would believe their hopeful promises come true in the future. But not even the real world, just couple of pages at the end of the book also extinguish them, and also myself. It's a kind of unexceptable ending, but we have to say it's wonderfully realistic. An innocent and naive young boy, and a young woman looking for salvation, seem like they won't have any intersections. But under a cellar, a dramatically experience influenced both of their lives---or didn't. But as our narrator, Lorenzo has changed into an active person, which starts to care about others or at least leart to stand up for his responsbilities. How his sister suffered and need for salvation gave him the way to try and taste how wonderful to help others.
Lorenzo as a child, which should make Olivia reflects about her childhood. How her childhood would be like? Sunshine, the smell of grass, playing games with friends, or moonlight? She just felt how innocent she used to be. As a smart girl, she also noticed how her little brother was suffered about and how he tried to get rid of it. From his help, from his changes, from at first he doesn't care at all to be active and try his best to help. Olivia also believes that she would have that kind of changes also. And her brother is just her model.
23. As the event that he undergoes to hide under the cellar, I think it is pretty hard for him to be honest with himself. He hasn't been found about the real himself for too long. He understands about why he lies but he just couldn't face the lie to explain the truth to his mother. I think he has rediscovered who he is until the last day he spent with his sister under the cellar. The revelation to him that he wants to have friends and have fun is, the real himself's charactertistics. Olivia acted a really important position in his heart and his entire life. From their only one week experiences, until 10 years later her life ended, all brings Lorenzo huge influences. I believe he would face and survive the real world. His sister's life just like an alarm, which pushes him away from the underline which he should never touch.
