Brian Doyle and Mandy Len Catron are two very different people. Doyle is a canadian author and has written many young adult and childhood books. Doyle is a father and was influenced by his son being born without a certain heart valve. Born in Virginia, Catron is a teacher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Doyle has lived for 80 years.
The authors have two different audiences. Doyle is looking to give insight to anyone who will listen, he puts in examples of heartbreak that connect to people of all ages. Catron’s targeted audience are the people looking for love in their lives. She wants people who think of love in the traditional way (fall in love) to consider that you can make yourself fall in love.
Doyle wrote his essay to say many things. His part about the hummingbirds was a comparison to the human life. The birds are set to fast forward, if they slow down they die, so they have to keep going and hope they find nourishment. I saw this as a relation between people with depression who are doing whatever they can to keep on pushing, trying to find whatever they can to live. Doyle also spoke of how we all have fluid hearts, no matter the size. I really don’t know what he wanted to get across, maybe that the audience develop their own thoughts. Lastly Doyle spoke of how the heart becomes a scarred and bruised thing, that people never go all the way when they connect, never fully turn the valve, because the heart likes its secrets. His thoughts about the heart don’t differ much from how Catron’s. Both of them say that there’s nothing special about the soulmate. There are simply people you can or can’t connect with. Catron’s purpose was much more lighthearted that Doyle’s. Her's was to change people’s thoughts about love. She wanted people to look at love as something a person has some influence on, in the same way Doyle's essay thinks of people as chance factors that can change lives.
Mandy Len Catron’s article describes her experience in conducting an old experiment that a psychologist used to see if he could succeed in making two people fall in love. Catron’s article generally speaks to a large audience, however it does seem a little focused on people that are looking for love in their lives. Catron’s purpose was to show that love is a more of an action, rather than something that simply happens to us. It can be initiated or stopped by either partner, or even both. Catron establishes her point by explaining her own experiences with the experiment, and with love itself. She explains that if you want love you can make it happen, and don’t necessarily have to wait for it to happen to you.
ReplyDeleteBryan Doyle’s essay differs from Catron’s article in that not only does it read like a poem, but seems to be directed at a more general audience. Doyle doesn’t necessarily focus on love but moreover that we all have a limited amount of time and it’s up to us how we use it. He also explains that we all have a heart and we are all susceptible to the same things. This is similar to Catron’s essay in that we are in control of our own lives, however Catron does touch more on love while Boyle speaks on life as a whole.
The two pieces are extremely different. Brian Doyle writes the piece "Joya Voladoras" very precisely which almost reads like a robot. His evidence to prove his point is all very concrete points of evidence such ashis mention of the hummingbirds intense heartbeat and the incredible blue whale whose heart is as "big as a room" (Doyle 503)
ReplyDeleteMandy Len Catron, on the other hand, speaks from her heart as she describes herself falling in love with a man at a bar due to scientific research. Catron explains in her article "To fall in love with anyone, do this" that she the night "was warm and [she] was wide awake."
The two authors describe and show their perspective on love in their own unique ways, one with their mind and one with their heart.
It is easy to notice that the authors of “Joyas Voladoras” and “To Fall in Love with Anyone Do this” are two very different people. Brian Doyle, the author of “Joyas Voladoras”, is an older and very experienced man. He wrote from his experiences and has been awarded and recognized for his works. Mandy Len Catron, the author of “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do this”, is a teacher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. It seems that the only thing these two writers have in common is that they both Boyle and Catron live and work in Canada.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of these two worker are different as well. Brian Doyle writes a very analytical essay which compares the human heart to that of an animals. Through his essay he explains that we only get a certain number of heartbeats in our life and what we choose how we spend those heartbeats. This essays purpose is to illustrate the importance of not guarding your heart just because it is vulnerable. Mandy Catron writes her article after she conducts research of falling in love. Her article is to inform and demonstrate these steps and conclusions. These writings are similar through the message they are conveying. Although done in different ways, both shows how vulnerable we are to being loved and falling in love.