The first
article from the The New York Times, "To Fall in
Love..." is a seemingly more casual writing when compared to "A
Modest Proposal". The authors had different intentions when creating their
articles. Mandy Len Catron, the author of "To Fall in Love..." uses colloquial
diction and by doing this is creating a casual, blog-entry type of article that
is appealing to the general Internet audience. In contrast, Jonathan Swift, the
author of "A Modest Proposal", is speaking on a less casual and more
urgent idea. In doing so, he writes using scholarly diction and speaks in a
much more scientific way, pertaining to a scholarly or exemplary audience
instead of the general Internet public. In comparing these articles, you will
also find that they differ in their purpose. For example, the first article in The
New York Times is to inform but also entertain. Who doesn't enjoy a
good love story and an interesting scientific experiment? As the second article,
"A Modest Proposal" speaks about an important and much darker issue
to raise awareness to it, not to entertain the audience. To speak of
similarity we can address the articles in their somewhat similar purpose of
informing. For example, the first article is working to inform its audience
about the experiment on love, and the second is informing about a melancholy
issue in Ireland.
The purposes of the passage, "Joyas Voladoras," and the article, "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This," were similar by how they both talk about in some way about opening up to others. The setting in which each story is told is presented differently. Many Len Catron, from The New York Times, explains how to open up each other’s heart to one another by telling her own personal love story through an experiment at a bar. She learned that having at least three things in common with someone else helps a person feel more open and interested in another person. The passage in The Norton Reader Brian Doyle uses animals as a reference to compare the timespans of their lives and how they spend it. Doyle tells the reader why it is hard to open up to others because we don’t want to waste our time loving someone if it isn’t going to work out in the end.
ReplyDeleteComparing these two stories, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This” and “Joyas Voladoras” you can tell they are both sort of heart stories. “To Fall in Love…” is a lighthearted cutesy love story about two people falling in love during a science experiment about falling in love while “Joyas Voladoras” is an information packed article explaining different animal’s hearts and how big they all are compared to each other, or if it even has a heart at all! “To Fall in Love…” uses an ironic situation with Arthur Aron conducting an experiment to see if he could possibly make two strangers fall in love. He succeeded but the woman of the couple who fell in love explaines to the audience that they chose to fall in love, not that the experiment made them fall in love. The article “Joyas Voladoras” uses argument skills to say that us as people believe that we use our hearts for love, and that a small stroke of a hand or hearing the words I have to tell you something from someone important hurts our hearts, when that is our emotions, and our hearts are just houses.
ReplyDeleteIn “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This” by Mandy Len Catron, the purpose of this essay is mostly to entertain and slightly inform us about the experiment. The essay is written in a more casual form because the author is telling a story. In "Joyas Voladoras" by Brian Doyle, the purpose of his essay is more of a lyrical poem, he uses metaphors and examples to describe the different hearts of different animals. He also talks about how we hold different things in our hearts and we never truly show ourselves to others, while in Mandy Len Carton’s article she talks about how the experiment was meant to help people become more intimate.
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