Comparison

To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This by Mandy Len Catron and Brian Doyle’s Joyas Voladoras share a few similarities, as well as differences when comparing the two. To start out, To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This, is written in a much more friendly tone, geared toward younger adults in my opinion. Mandy Catron tells a story of her eventually falling in love with a man due to a science experiment. Brian Doyle’s Joyas Voladoras was written in a more educational way, telling not a story, but telling about the life of a humming bird, and then relating it back to the nature of human beings. The main purpose Brian Doyle wants to get across in Joyas Voladoras is to live life to the fullest and get everything you can out of it. Brian says, “Every creature on Earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in s lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise… or you can spend them fast, like a humming bird…” Brian wanted the reader to understand that no matter how we go about life, we all have about the same amount of heart live, so make every beat count. The purpose of Mandy Catron’s To Fall in Love… is to get people to understand that love doesn’t just happen, people are in love because both choose to be. Yes, the so called “love experiment” did lead them to eventually falling in love, but more than anything, it created an intimate feeling between the contestants. More times than not love doesn’t find you; you must search and work for love. The common theme between these two selections is that you as the individual must make the decision; you get to decide how you live your life with the time you have, and how you go about finding love.