In her New York Times article, “To
Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This”, Mandy Len Catron writes about a study that
was done to see if contestants were to fall in love after thirty-six questions
and four minute staring eye to eye moment. Since the psychologist who conducted
this study successfully managed to make two of its contestants fall in love,
Catron decided to apply this technique in her own life. She did everything that
they did, except that they weren’t strangers. The outcome of her experience was
that love was not something that happened, but it was something they chose to
do.
On the other hand, we have Brian
Doyle’s essay, Joyas Voladoras, where
he writes about the sizes of hearts. He specifically writes about a humming birds
life, which seems to not be a very long one. Later on he talks about the whale’s
heart and how big it is. He is trying to tell his audience how a heart goes through
a lot and by building a wall to protect it will not give you the chance to
fully experience life.
The similarities between the
purposes of these readings is to notify its audience that if you keep your heart
as cold as stone then you will not be able to fully choose to love. Catron was
open to do a study for herself and Doyle spoke of the hearts and its barriers.
She was open minded about what to do and he was trying to get us too see the
different chambers. Their context/settings are different, because Catron takes
a study into action and Doyle reflects to us about the different hearts. I
think their audience could be the same, because it makes us think of the
possible ways one could choose to fall in love. The audience could range in
age. Boyle is much older than Catron. They are both Caucasian. Catron has a TED
Talk over her study and Boyle has written a lot of essays.
Looking over this I would have to agree of how you were mentioning about Mandy Catron and Brain Doyle similarities of how “love” can be define. However, I have some questionable concerns about how Brain Doyle’s essay explains the verities of each heart sizes and how we shouldn’t build these barriers to protect our hearts in order for us to have the “fully experience life.” The reason why I question this is because having that barrier isn’t because of the heart sizes; it’s more of an emotional or mental connection that makes us want to have that “wall” between our hearts. We experience certain things that affect our lives our minds starts to react emotionally and mentally, which this can relate back to the “love” topic. When people experience love we have all these emotions of happiness and peace with the person you are with. However, there will be a time when things don’t work out and eventually break up at some point. This results an issue mentally because there would be thoughts of doubt and despair knowing you went through a bad break up, which makes us create that barrier in our hearts. Overall, I do agree with Many Catron statement that makes us understand that we have a chose to love. However, love is a mixed feeling that affects us emotionally and mentally, not because of our heart sizes.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose to the article “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This”, is somewhat similar to that of “Joyas Voladoras”. In “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This”, Mandy Len Carton starts off by explaining what a psychologist succeeded at doing 20 years ago. Arthur Aron made it possible for two strangers to fall in love and later get married. Throughout her article she talks to us about how she herself became one of those who became in love with the help of this technique but at the end she doesn’t attribute to the study significantly. She believes that we can choose to fall in love if we want to, we can choose to get to know somebody and decide whether to love them or not. Catron states that the study did help her by proving that we can build off from just having trust. Catron was aiming at a group of people who are in search for love. Whereas in “Joyas Voladoras”, Brian Doyle mentions hummingbirds, whales, and other sorts of animals. Doyle talks about their hearts and how each of them are different, explaining that the hummingbird lives at a faster pace than a tortoise does. At the end of his short essay I believe he intends for his audience to take a pause and understand that we are human beings who cannot avoid our inner feelings even if we attempt to “build a brick wall”. He expresses how we should be up for love and not avoid it. Both Catron and Doyle share that we should acknowledge the fact that we are all in search for love, one way or another. The difference is that Doyle believes we should remember that we our hearts can be bruised and scarred, while Catron rarely mentions anything about the pain of love.
ReplyDeleteJoyas Voladoars, is an interesting article in that the author Brian Doyle, an 81 yr. old Caucasian male author that wrote this article to leave the interpretation up to the reader. He gives the audience so much information and facts about various animals that leads us to the big idea of not putting up walls to live your life. Whereas, in the New York Times article in To Fall in Love With Anyone Do This, written by author Mandy Len Catron writes more of a story that is more understandable with the reader by introducing love with 36 questions. Her story is more relatable to the audience because it doesn’t use large and complex metaphors about animals about how to find the right love. She also uses her personal experience as part of her story talking about how she personally fell in love, the intended audience being young education people. Doyle’s audience is towards children and scientists that know all about science and understand the context about the animals. Both of their purposes were to bring out the most important idea, love. They both will use analogy’s to describe what love is like experiments or nature and how to love.
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