Compare And Contrast Catch The Moon By Judith Ortiz Cofer

These two activist, John Francis and Julia Butterfly Hill started extraordinary and brave movements in their life time. They both wrote memoirs. John’s is named Planetwalker, which is about when he decided after an oil spill in 1971, to stop using automobiles for twenty-two years and stop speaking shortly after for seventeen years. Julia’s memoir is called The Legacy of Luna Julia, which is about when she wanted to stop Pacific Lumber and decided to sit in a thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt County, California for about two years. These inspirational people both have similar stories and made an impact on the world

A story can do so much for a person. It can teach you. It can provide comfort. It can make you a better person. And in the book, Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool, the stories Miss Sadie tells help Abilene develop a better understanding of her father, and give her a sense of belonging.

Everyone is struggling but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give up. Luis didn’t give up and in the book he stands up to what

According to School Library Journal, Walk Two Moons is, “A rich layered novel about real and metaphorical journeys.” People think that it is slow at the beginning and exciting at the end, but Walk Two Moons, has lots of detail, surprising plot twists, and relatable scenes. People should really consider reading Walk Two Moons. Sharon Creech is incredibly detailed in the way she presents her story, Walk Two Moons.

“Don’t judge a man until you walked two moons in his moccasins.” (Creech pg) This saying repeats several times in the book Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech. Salamanca Tree Hiddle goes through many complicated events, which makes her not accept the fact that her mother, Chanhassen leaves. Sal goes on a journey with her grandparents from Euclid, Ohio to Lewiston, Idaho.

In Annie Dillard’s Total Eclipse, sources, ideas, and information are connected in surprising ways. By using phrases and metaphors like “The grasses were wrong; they were platinum,” and “The grass at our feet was wild barley,” or even “A piece beside the crescent sun was detaching,”  she describes the effects of the eclipse through distorted imaging, because certainly those things were not happening. Throughout the whole essay, Dillard jumps around from her feelings and the effects of the eclipse to her past experience with partial eclipses and compares them; she also adds in pieces of what she sees in her husband, Gary, and his reactions/different appearances throughout the eclipse. Her intriguing ways of keeping the readers interested

What is love? There are many ways American Literature has portrayed the idea of love, and how it works. Several pieces of American Literature demonstrate the theme of love; this is shown in Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, “Annabelle Lee”, by Edgar Allan Poe, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag and Mildred Montag, a married couple, represent what love is not about.

Dorianne Laux’s interlocking images and recycled themes in section three Dorianne Laux’s Facts about the Moon is a confessional read driven by original everyday images or topics that act as igniters to a specific memory or theme she is implying. The poetry is consistent with being smart in terms of having lasting images that extend form poem to poem. A fierce voice that tackles soft topics as well as a soft voice that tackles fierce topics. Her contrast of formal language corresponding with poems that delve deep into lyricism that creates a fairytale like aesthetic. And gorgeous/humorous layered imagery from a whole poem that is a hyperbole to a single specific detail that acts as a narrative guide which engages the reader into the most natural

Luis really makes fantasy about the place he would go. They think about some of them who have the opportunity to go on vacation whereas others attend places such as Hawaii and the

“Catch The Moon” is a short story written by Judith Ortiz Cofer that deals with a boy named Luis living with his father, working at his junkyard. This story is written in third person point of view. Pondering on this, I realized the story would be very different if it was written in first person point of view by Luis, Luis dad, and Naomi, who seems to be Luis’s lover. Throughout the story there were times where it seemed like time was frozen and Luis was spending time thinking.

As reflected in the readings of Reading Popular Culture: An Anthology for Writers 3rd Edition, present-day advertisements expand far beyond the endorsement of a product. While the initial intent for various corporations surround the operation of selling and marketing products, many companies also find success in promoting masked messages. According to Jean Kilbourne in her article pertaining to the study of advertisement, she reveals the underlying tactics of commercialized business. As stated in the article “’In Your Face…All Over the Place’:

I pulled up to the bus crash site knowing my mom was once on that bus once. The cops rolled up to the site and I talked to them about my 4 hour drive from Coeur d’Alene by myself. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Sal changes to learn how to accept things like her mom’s death due to multiple external forces. One external way that makes Sal learn to accept things is her mom’s death on the bus ride to Lewiston, Idaho.

Love is a mystery for many people, everyone has their views on what love should be and it is way more than just a definition in a dictionary. Love takes patience and time and not just forcing to find it. In the story, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurstone, the main character Janie Crawford is raised by her grandmother who forces her to marry an older wealthy man. Janie 's realizes that isn’t what true love is and runs off with another man called Jodie. After many years she realizes that marriage didn’t work out either, after Jodies dies she meets a man called TeaCake who she falls for and runs away with.

Deep, intense, and long-lasting individuals use love to express their true emotions. Love is the passionate affection and desire felt by lovers for each other. While love can be so powerful, it is also demanding. Love is unique, love is special. Whether it is the impacts, love and an addiction both have on the body to how they change a person or to how they make a person feel, love is an addiction.

Love is a special emotion that is inherited by everyone. However, as expressed by the writers of Macbeth, Wuthering Heights, and My Last Duchess, love can expressly get destructive. Sometimes, there appears to be no balance of power between the relationships of men and women. Ambition plays an extensive factor in the disruption of love. Macbeth had to overcome several obstacles as a result of his ambition.