In both of the assigned reading the authors are speaking of “love”
one from a scientific way of thinking and the other from a more abstract way of
thinking. In the New York Times piece
“To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This” the author Mandy Catron discusses how
she found a study that “made” two people fall in love. In her article she her
target audience were both those people who thought of love in a scientific sense
and those who saw love as a random thing that is unexplainable, by doing this
she was trying to show both sides had a very strong argument about “love.” It is
very easy to tell right off the bat that the author is very curious about the
study, she wanted to try the experiment out, and she wanted to see if it actually
worked. Though she does says “our experiment already fails to line up with the
study” (Catron 2015), to myself this is not a big deal because later on Matron
writes “the study did give us a way into a relationship” so if not for her
wanting to perform the study then they would probably have never gone out at
all. The Second reading “Joyas Voladoras” speaks on the topic of if it is
better to keep your heart open and let it get broken or to keep it closed off
in hopes of that one special someone to come around. The author Brian Doyle just
from reading this thinks of love as a magical thing that has nothing to do with
science, though he does include the anatomy of hearts. His main point was to
ask his audicence whether or not falling in love quickly and burning out in the
same amount of time is better than falling in love slowly to make a long
lasting relationship, which is where he states “You can spend them slowly, like
a tortoise…or you can spend them fast, like a humming bird” (Doyle 2004).
I agree, these two articles have similar purposes in mind. Brian Doyle’s article has more to it than just animals. He tries to show that even a small animal like the hummingbird can be so intricate. Compared to the whale that is huge yet we know so little about it. “To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This” shows how simple something that is misunderstood can be broken down into pieces. In this experiment, love was being tested to see if it can scientifically happen. Although the results turned out to go pretty well. The point was to show that anything can be created through a scientific way. These two articles prove that love can be scientific and something that is already felt. It can be created by life and by beings that inhabit this Earth.
ReplyDeleteBrian Doyle, the author of “Joyas Voladoras” and Mandy Len Catron, the author of “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This” see love coming from two different vital organs, the eye and the heart. Brian Doyle believes the heart is the center of love and once you let someone in, they will be able to love you and you will love them. On the other hand Mandy Len Catron believes love is seen through the eyes. The authors do on the other hand have the same audience type, ones interested in the thought of love. The settings of the two readings are vastly different though. The news article “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” takes place in a bar from midafternoon to almost closing and then also on a bridge in the midle of the night, but when reading “Joyas Voladoras,” you see the animals he is talking about so I infer the setting to be where animals live. Ground, air and water.
ReplyDeleteThe audience of both of these articles are for young adults, but in To Fall in Love with Anyone, do This also has an audience in the fields of science and the purpose was to portray that there is a lot of science that deals with falling in love and you cannot choose who that is. It is clear that the author was always interested in the science of love and that is why they went to test out if it really had an impact. In Brian Doyle the purpose is to stress that the heart can does many things but no matter how tough one’s defense is, it will always fall under love because the heart is indeed a fragile work of art. The similarities of these articles in my opinion is that they both make it seem as if love is always among us and it is indeed unavoidable.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the explanation that you give for “Joyas Voladoras”. The human has choices when it comes to love and you can either be closed minded and only focus on a few things or have a bigger heart as a blue whale or small like a hummingbird. Regardless of which the person chooses there is always hope to love others and be open about it throughout your lifetime. In the article, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This”, the author describes how people have used science to see if that can make them fall in “love” with another person. Majority of people seek an answer as to why things happen so using science seems to be the way for some people. Love is a feeling that comes from within, and maybe in some near future science can help create that feeling in a much stronger way as it’s shown in these articles.
ReplyDeleteI agree that both of the articles are talking about very similar things, but have different ways of doing so. Both of the authors purposes in their writing were to inform the reader but they go about it in slightly different ways. They do this based on their attended audiences. The first article, “To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This” by Mandy Len Catron, was published in The New York Times, therefore was meant for a more general audience. Because of this, the author tried to inform the reader in a more relatable and entertaining way. The other reading was made for and presented to a completely different kind of audience. Brian Doyle's essay “Joyas Voladoras” was intended to be used for a more academic audience and for learning purposes. Because of this, he took a more simple informing approach to his writing in order for the reader to learn about the subject.
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