The two passages To
Fall in Love With Someone: Do this and
Joyas Voladoras are similar and different. The story To Fall in Love With Somone: Do this is a nonfiction true story
about a pychologist that successfully made two strangers fall in love with each
other. I believe that her intended audience is people who are interested in
romance stories. She describes that the strangers are asked deep questions to
quickly bring them to the intimate level of comfortness with each other. People
interested in romance stories might enjoy reading this passage. The author’s
purpose is to inform readers how to quickly interact with someone in favor of
falling in love with them. The setting of this passage is in a public setting
and then a more private one where the two strangers stare into each other’s
eyes on a bridge. In the other passage, Joyas
Voladoras the author Brian Doyle writes to anyone interested in the
scientific side of fiction. Her purpose is to inform her readers about the
different hearts in animals. Hummingbirds hearts work much harder than most
animals, therefore they suffer the most heart problems throughout their life
and do not live as long. The context of the passage is wisdom. Brian Doyle
states that animals who have lived a long time would know that everyone gets
their heart hurt or damaged throughout their lifetime, meaning it is not
possible to avoid the pains associated with love.
The similarities and differences in purpose and setting in “Joyas Voladoras” and “To Fall in Love, Do This.” In both texts, the authors explain the instances of love and life. Brian Doyle, the author of “Joyas Voladoras” explains that love is a way we let people in, sort of like by opening windows. We get to choose who comes into our heart but in reality we are still living alone. We live like this because we are too afraid to get our hearts broken. We can put up as many walls to prevent people from hurting us, but to let someone in is to allow them to love you or hurt you, but eventually the walls will come down. In “To Fall in Love, Do This”, author Mandy Len Catron, makes love and falling into it an experience that many can relate to, but the way it happens, and the reason it happens is different for each individual. Catron explores the simplicity of falling in love, and how to make it happen through a scientific experiment. By sharing relatable situations, providing a sense of open-mindedness, and the ability to be vulnerable and intimate, Mandy’s article is successful in convincing her audience that love occurs when two people make the choice to be in love. Each text has the same purposeful value of love and being loved, but the context of them contrasts, because in Doyle’s love is categorized as a love- hate relationship, while Catron’s categorizes love as an experiment where two people get to choose to love and be loved. The similarities in their setting also establishes the formality of love. Each takes a living being and explains how they can love, however the way they do this is different. Doyle takes the various mammals on the planet and metaphorically uses their hearts and their sizes to signify how hard we love and how we deep we do it. While Catron captures her audience by having us be able to relate to scenarios that she paints. She describes moments that many young adults have experienced themselves, or at least something similar, or something we dream of.
ReplyDeleteThe similarities between the two passages is that they both talk about love and the things that come with them. In "Joyas Voladoras" Brian Doyle the author talks about the heart size of different animals like the hummingbird and the blue whale. The hummingbird the mammal with a small heart but has a high heart rate can do amazing things but with these amazing things come many risks. They suffer more heart attacks and aneurysms than any other mammal because they over work their heart. The blue whale a creature that has the largest heart but humans know the least about live in pairs like many other creatures that have large hearts. In "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This" the author talks about a way that one person made two people fall in love in his lab. She talks about a way that she and a friend tested to see if it would really make people fall in love. She talks about the level of intimacy that is needed to connect two people together. She also talks about finding that area where you become comfortable with that person and are okay to share all the intimate details of your life with them. Both authors had their own intended purposes for their article I thing in "Joyas Voladoras" Doyle's intended purpose was to show the ways that loving someone or something can damage a persons heart. That a person who has a big heart is vulnerable but that having a large heart benefits them in some way. In "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This" I believe her purpose was to supply readers who love the idea of love a way in which they might understand how falling in love with someone works. Both articles talk about love and the different ways it is expressed.
ReplyDeleteThe similarities between the two passages is that they both discuss love and how it correlates with science. Love is seen as quite inevitable in both cases but the major difference between the two is that for the first passage, the individuals involved get to choose whether to fall in love or not. Love is seen as an action not just anything that happens by chance. Whereas in Joyas Voladoras the animals are used as metaphor to explain the fact that we don't get to chance how our heart works. We are just wired in a certain way. Another major difference between the two is the setting. The first is more of a public setting but the individuals involved are confined in their own world to the extent that they even forgot they were surrounded by people. The later on the other hand is in a really confined and private setting. It focuses more on illustrating what goes on within the heart and how the heart is a world of its own.
ReplyDeletethe author's purpose of the first passage is to make clear an hypothesis that love is an action and we ultimately choose to be in love in the end while the purpose of the later is to prove that we don't get to choose how and when we love and in the end being in love involves pain and heartaches. The less we love the more we live because the heart isn't used to its full potential and the harder we love , the more we are likely to feel so much pain and hurt.
The obvious thing that both of these passages share is that both of them talk about the subject of love, the thing that’s sets these two passages apart is the way both authors explains how love works, and the benefits and cons of love itself. Within “Joyas Voladoras” the author tells the reader how to much love, can be dangerous, using the example of humming birds who tend to die from heart attacks, due to the amount of work that is put on their heart. I believe that this is a metaphor saying that too much love can lead to some dangerous outcomes. The other passage "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This", the author takes a different take on love, and bring science to the mix, seeing if you could make someone fall in love. The author explains the different factors that come into place when trying to make someone fall in love, this including the level of attraction, intimacy, where the connection is taking place, etc. At the end i felt like both passages got the point of the writing across incredibly, even though they were both different in many ways, both of the authors points were very clear and even had me agree with them at some points. I think the author of “Joyas Voladoras” wasn’t against love but wanted the reader to use it with caution, while the author of "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This" is explaining that there is a science to love and it’s not all up to fate.
ReplyDeleteThere are subtle similarities and differences between Mandy Catrons To Fall in Love With Anyone,DO This and Brian Doyles Joyas Voladoras specifically with the setting/context and the authors. In Mandy Catrons piece she tried out a love experiment with a colleague from her school.The Test consisted of 36 question with gradually increasing intimacy for each. They spent hours at the bar going through the questions.The last section required four minutes of eye contact so they went out to a bridge and proceeded with the task. She claims that she is in love with that same man today. for her love is an action, something we are able to do as with anyone.All it takes is a higher level of intimacy then usual to trigger these romantic feelings.On the opposite side, Doyles story had to do with the heart and the stuggle to open up to others, so coldness, and fear of beng hurt. His story was filled with metaphors and had a darker tone while Cartons was lighter and more of a story. Both were related to love and weather its a choice or it just happens.How we come to love someone can be approached different ways by the authors. Carton seemed more outgoing compared to Doyle, which might be a reason behind the different takes on love.
ReplyDeleteThe authors of the passages are in different stages of their lives. Mandy Len Cantron, the author of "To Fall in Love With Anyone, do This", is an English and college writing professor published for her work on the topic of love. "Joyas Voladoras" author Brian Doyle is awarded in his writing for children. Both authors are from Canada. Brian Doyle's piece is more cynical in nature than Cantron's work. Her price is more hopeful on the quest for love while his is negative, you'll only end up hurt.
ReplyDeleteThese two passages are similar in that they talk about love and dangers that come along with it. That in “To Fall In Love With Anyone” she expresses the vulnerability of asking the lab questions in a bar setting and in “Joyas Voladores” showing scientifically how spending your heart quickly means a quicker death. These authors both see love from different views, Brian Doyle sees love from a more scientific approach, that it has way more to do with the heart physically and the size of the heart effects the life span of the animal in how it loves. Also that this means that the bigger the heart the more apt the animal is to want to travel in pairs, with a companion. While Mandy sees love more as a choice, she writes for the skeptics of experiments creating love, being a bit of a skeptic herself. Though yes her experiment worked in the end she knows in her heart that they fell in love because they chose to be in love together and not a trick of science.
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