compare/contrast

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.

Text comparison and contrast

      

        In To Fall in Love With Someone : Do this and with the Norton Reader article there are many similarities as well as many differences.  One difference is that in To Fall in Love with someone starts off with a factual statement about how a psychologist named Arthur Aron succeeded in making two people fall in love, while Joyas Voladoras starts off with a hummingbird metaphor.  I believe that Joyas Voladuras has more of a literature and biology  background  since this particular text talks about how different animals' bodies work and their heart structure and compares that to how human hearts work (both literally and figuratively) and even goes on to say that there's "so much held in a heart in a lifetime". To Fall in Love, Do this however, I believe that there's more of an audience that wants to see how people fall in love. Audience wise the thing they commonly share is that both of their audiences want to know more about love.

        In To Fall in Love, do This the author is more spent on setting up her own experiment to see if it's possible to make two people fall in love with each other, while In Joyas Voladoras the author seems to want to explain things more in metaphors and explain how different species' heart systems work (a metaphor in itself) and also how different species feel and express love.

    

       The author’s purpose in To Fall in Love Do This seems to be to scientifically prove if people can be made to fall in love, while the purpose of Joyas Voladoras seems to be explaining how hearts work in other organisms besides humans and also the metaphor of how love comes from the heart.

          The settings also differ because in To Fall In Love With Someone Do This it seems to take place in the lab of Arthur Aron only not physically but in the author's imagination because they're imagining what it would be like to be there in person. In Joyas Voladuras the setting constantly changes depending on what topic the author is talking about. In both texts however, the settings are seen via the authors' mental landscape, in other words they're not there physically.

Corbin's Compare and Contrast Nov 1

After reading, Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle and To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This by Mandy Len Catron, it is easy to dissect a handful of differences. Catron uses her everyday life and real encounters as the foundation for her writing. She talks about love the same way the audience she is writing for thinks about love. As a young woman, she is hopeful about love. But, Doyle is an 81 year old author who uses science and logic to explain love; this also means that, due to his age, he will probably have a unique perspective on love. Doyle uses nature to express his beliefs; by using nature, he talks about the heart of a mockingbird, the heart of a blue whale, and the heart of a human. By making these comparisons, he says that the smallest heart, the largest heart, and a medium sized heart, although they are all different sizes, they are susceptible to feel pain and can allowed something to be hurt; I think Doyle's age comes out in this because it shows wisdom that he has acquired over many years.  As a result of this, Catron's piece is reflective and realistic while Doyle's piece is very descriptive and filled with imagery. These pieces also have similarities, for example, they both view love as something that is vulnerable and allows someone to be susceptible to pain. They both express the importance of love, they just do so in two different ways.