After reading, Joyas
Voladoras by Brian Doyle and the article, To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This by Mandy Len Catron, many
differences were observed between the two writings. First off, the authors come
from very different backgrounds—Doyle is an 81-year-old author from Canada and
Mandy Len Catron is an author whose work particularly focuses on the concept
and subject of love. To start off, the
purposes of both pieces were different. To
Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This was
written to inform the audience and it was also written in a reflective manner,
whereas Joyas Voladoras was written
in a manner that was descriptive and illustrative. Doyle wrote his piece metaphorically
and was left open for interpretation for the audience. The settings in both
pieces also differ a lot—Catron’s piece takes place in her everyday life,
whereas Doyle’s piece take place in nature. In the article, To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This Catron had recreated an experiment
that was performed by a psychologist 20 years earlier. She writes from her
experiences and emphasizes more of her feelings in the piece. Doyle, on the
other hand illustrates the heart. He describes the heart of a whale, the heart of
a hummingbird, and the heart of a tortoise. The irony behind Joyas Voladoras that Doyle presents is
the fact that hummingbirds have fast beating hearts—but die fast, tortoises
have slow beating hearts—but live longer, and whales have large hearts that are
strong, large, and are fully protected. Doyle uses these metaphors so the
audience could consider the meaning behind the writing and apply it to their
lives lives—sort of like food for thought.
The similarities between the two pieces are also apparent.
The context of both pieces emphasizes the idea of love. Also, both readings
talk about being open minded when it comes to love. They both also talk about
love as being an experience that individuals should partake in. The last similarity that I observed between
the two pieces was the idea of staying open minded when it comes to love.
Thank you for your post.
ReplyDelete“To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This” by Mandy Len Catron and “Joyas Volardores” by Brian Doyle share the similarity in revealing the subject of love; however, the intended audience and purposes of these two articles are slightly different determined by the author’s conscientious messages.
Mandy Len Catron is an author and teacher from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, her works, therefore, must be her personal contributions to her teachings. That is to say - “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This” must as well, first and foremost, communicates with university students and young adults. Her article is primarily built upon a psychology experiment and study of the nature of romantic love. On the other hand, Brian Doyle, an author and former university’s teacher, wrote “Joyas Volardores” after his retirement in 1991. The essay was originally published in The American Scholar in 2004, a literary magazine that is primarily read by literature enthusiasts and committed academics. His writing predominantly discourses the biological study of many species’ hearts and unfolds a message of love as an essential experience that should not be shut off.
Another dissimilarity is the two authors’ purposes. Catron’s writing made an attempt to review a psychology experiment and illustrate her own opinion of love as an action instead of an unavoidable situation. Doyle’s essay, contrarily, makes a persuasive argument to influence his intended audience. In the last paragraph, Doyle wrote as a final reveal of his argument and a call to action. He defended his justification on love as a worthy mean of action that needed to be unshielded even for other negative experiences from life.
You are right in that both pieces have many differences and similarities. However, I disagree with what you said about the two writings having different purposes. After reading "Joyas Voladoras" and "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do It," I understood that they were both informative. "Joyas Voladoras" first tells the reader about hummingbird's rapid-beating hearts, then goes into other mammals hearts, and ends with human hearts breaking in a moment. It is entirely informative and does not persuade the reader in any way. "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do It" does the same. The essay is mainly trying to explain falling in love and choosing to love. After bringing up a study done by psychologists, she recounts events of her college days where she experimented with love. The author ends the essay by mentioning that she loved the man she was describing in the story but not because of the night when they tried to recreate the study. Among all of the differences in the two, one of them is the context. They take place in very different settings. "Joyas Voladoras" focuses around nature whereas "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do It" stays primarily in a bar and bridge at night, probably in the city.
ReplyDeleteBoth pieces focus on the concept of love and how one should not come see love as a way street, but as to something people should be open with. Both mention the idea that love is not something that can be defined by one thing or action, but rather love can be seen and experienced in a variety of ways. The two pieces differ however in two main areas. For one, "Joyas Voladoras", aims to focus on an audience looking for a reason or as to persuade the audience that they need to go out and love and sees love as an experience while at the same time describing the science behind hearts. The audience targeted in, "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This", focused more on people who question whether you really can learn to love someone at first sight, so to speak, and focused on romantic love rather than love being shown in other ways or means. Secondly, The purposes for each piece are different."Joyas Voladoras" purpose is to call on people to confront and pursue love dispite love and its drawbacks. Whereas, "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do it", wants people to try and see love as something that can be experienced with anyone essentially given the right commonalities and situation; love is more about the feeling of intimacy and trust in the significant other.
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