In
the first reading, The New York Times, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do
This” the author is very different from Brian Doyle, the author of “Joyas
Voladoras.” The author Mandy Len Catron, “To Fall in Love…” differs from Brian Doyle
because Doyle is more serious and focused on conveying a strong message.
Meanwhile, Mandy Len Catron seemed more spontaneous and upbeat in explaining
his own love story. The intended audiences for both stories are different as
well. In “To Fall in Love…” the audience is targeted towards people who are
young adults and the generic public worldwide, while “Joyas Voladoras” intended
audience is pointed towards the more scientific and educational audience. The
purpose of each story is also very different. In “To Fall in Love…” the purpose
was what it meant to know someone and to be known and loved. The purpose
was to show that people can't choose who loves who and that biology does a
lot behind closed doors. “Joyas Voladoras” purpose was to show how humans
aren’t fully open with anyone because their hearts can contain so much
information that not one person can completely understand or know someone
because of that.
I agree with your thought of The New York Times article of “To Fall in Love…” of being casual. The writer of the article was writing to a younger, mid-age audience while in “Joyas Voladoras” was writing in a strict tone with a sense of melancholy. The writing in “Joyas Voladoras” is punctual and written for an older crowd while in “To Fall in Love…” has a casual writing to a younger crowd. The purpose of “To Fall in Love…” is to inform the reader and give them a different mindset to a topic everyone thinks about, while in “Joyas Voladoras”, the purpose is tell a story, but with a different mindset, like in “To Fall in Love…”. Each article is similar in their purposes, roughly, but have a very different intended audience.
ReplyDeleteIn “Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle and the article from The New York Times, "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This" by Mandy Len Catron both authors talk about the state of a person’s heart. In Catron’s article she mentions how “Love didn’t happen to us. We’re in love because we each made the choice to be,” The author talks about how the experiment might have helped start the relationship, but it mostly happened because both the author and her partner wanted the relationship to go further. Catron also talks about people falling in love while Doyle talks about the heart. Doyle’s article is about how hearts holds so much yet “We are utterly open with no one, in the end,” (Doyle 503) Unlike Catron’s more optimistic article Doyle’s article is slightly pessimistic which can be seen through both author’s views. Doyle talks about the heart of animals while Catron’s article focused more on the scientific process of love.
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