Think about the "thematic idioms" explored in this class. Which thematic idiom or idioms best apply to "Catch the Moon"? In which way can you connect to this thematic idiom? You can personally connect or think about story or book you have read, or movies / TV programs you have seen.
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I think a thematic idiom that applys to "Catch the Moon" is "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar" because when Lois was bottling up his feelings and being mean, he had an awful relationship with his father and he got into a lot of trouble. But once he finally lets out all of his feelings he seems more nice. He shows sympathy, responsibility, and dedication to his father. He also ends up making a new, better friend(Naomi) than his old gang that got him into trouble. I can relate to this thematic idiom because when I am really in a bad mood one day, I tend to just repel people away from me because I'm being so nasty to them sometimes. But while I am in a good mood people like to be around me more because I am nice and friendly.
The idiom that best applies to the short story, “Catch the Moon,” is eye opener. I chose this because when Naomi came to get a hubcap she gave him a real eye opener and an incentive to work. She also reminded him of his mother who had passed a way from cancer three years earlier. These memories of his mother’s funeral made him feel sad so he went down to the funeral home to cry and think about her. I can connect to this thematic idiom because an eye opener for me was when I thought I was doing very well in science and I got my mid-mark and is was bad. After that eye opener I decided to study harder and I pulled my grade up. I can also connect to a book I read over the summer called, Down River by Will Hobbs, in that book a group of teenagers think that they can raft down the Colorado River without their guide. Down the river they find out that they can’t and are forced to get off the river realizing that they were not as good as they thought they were. This is the thematic idiom that I think describes this short story.
I find the most prevalent idiom in Catch The Moon to be “You will capture more flies using honey rather than vinegar”. I say this because Luis learns through his experiences that kindness and understanding to others will often advance him farther than if he remained incommunicative and unhelpful. He gains a friend in the end by finding a hubcap for her. I can connect to this thematic idiom through previous life experiences of my own. People tend to like me more if I am courteous and helpful. I can also connect this to a book I have read over the summer, Barry Lyndon. The main character, Redmond Barry, only does things for himself and does not care about others, even to those who have helped him before. He learns the hard way that “What comes around, goes around” in the end of the story. But that is another idiom.
The idiom that I would personally think that would apply best to “Catch the Moon” is the idiom: As cold as ice. What this idiom is represents is someone who does not show any emotion. This described Luis a lot in the beginning of the story. For example, in the text it had explained how he didn’t show no emotion for three years after his mother had died. He just distracted himself by getting in trouble all the time and not talking to his dad so those emotions wouldn’t bother him. I can connect to him of how he must have felt about his mother. When I lost my grandmother two years ago, I just bottled my emotions up at the funeral home; I just couldn’t handle seeing her go. But, when I got home a few hours later, I just let it all out, just as he let it all out when he visited the funeral home. Another idiom I thought that would fit the story was: Come up roses. This idiom is saying that if things come up roses, they produce a positive result, especially when things seemed to be going badly at first. This reminded me of Luis throughout the story. For instance, in the story, Luis had a lot of things that were bad, effecting his emotions and his actions; like how his mother died from cancer, how he joined a “club” that actually causes trouble, ignoring his dad, and especially hiding his feelings. But, throughout the middle to the end of the story, things for Luis started to get better as he met Naomi again. He finally let go of his emotions and got along with his father better as well. The way things had changed for Luis really helped him become a better person. I can connect to this because in reality, people have their ups and downs. For example, students in school would get bad grades. To improve those grades, they would study more or get help to succeed into what grade that are reaching for.
The story "Catch the Moon" is an example of the teaching “if you lie down with the dogs, you will get up with the fleas.” In other words, if you hang around bad company, you will become poorly influenced by them. In the beginning of the story, Luis was a very unruly trouble maker. He had a band of boys (the Tiburones) who would often commit crimes and misdemeanors in order to prove their courage and manliness. They would even lie to principals and officers of higher authority. Through actions like these, in which Luis was pressured and influenced by his friends, Luis was arrested and forced to work service, putting Luis in the unfortunate situation in the junkyard.
Like Luis, I once ‘hung around the dogs’ and soon found myself ‘getting up with the fleas.’ I began middle school seeking new opportunities both socially and academically. I anticipated meeting all of the people from the town that our new school would combine. However, I did not anticipate the situations I would soon find myself in. I befriended a certain group of friends and found myself hanging out with them more and more. Every weekend we would have a sleepover and enjoy having parties together. But that next Halloween turned out to be a disaster. While trick or treating with this group, I found myself compromising my morals and parent’s rules just in order so I could look ‘cool.’ To this day, I am thankful for my parents for intervening and telling me that I was ‘getting up with the fleas.’ Although Luis parents didn’t have a large role in his life, I still think that Luis’s spiritual connection with his deceased mother and his love for Naomi were the voices in Luis’s head that had intervened, telling him that he can be a better person if he cleaned up his act. Both Luis and I felt the impact of ‘hanging around the dogs’ but in both of our situations, we thankfully had someone to remove our ‘fleas.’
There are many thematic idioms that can relate to Catch the Moon by Judith Ortiz Cofer. One that is particularly similar is “keep your eye on the prize.” The meaning of this idiom is that you should keep your focus on achieving a positive end result. In the story, Luis gets into trouble with the law and does his time in juvenile hall. After he got out, he was on probation. While he was on probation, he stayed out of trouble. He didn’t go on dares from his gang, and helped his dad in his junk yard. He didn’t do so willingly, but he still acted better and more helpful than he was before he got into trouble. This idiom has applied to my life more times than one. For instance, when studying I often get bored and want to stop and just watch TV. But I know that if I study and do well on the test or quiz, I will be happier than if I had just relaxed and stopped studying. I keep my eye on the prize, and it helps me get through it. Keep your eye on the prize also relates to the movie Finding Nemo. In the movie, Marlin swims across the entire ocean in order to get his son, Nemo, back after he is kidnapped. At times, Marlin is scared for his life and fed up with Dori, a fish that accompanies him on his journey, but he just keeps swimming and in the end finds his son and returns home. Those are three examples of how the thematic idiom “keep your eye on the prize” relates to the story Catch the moon, my own life, and the movie Finding Nemo.
In the short story “Catch the Moon,” the thematic idiom that that I think is most alike to the story is “Thorn in your side.” This idiom means that someone or something causes trouble or makes life difficult for you. In the story, Luis is the thorn in the side to his father, Jorge. I think this because Luis is such a troubled boy and does nothing for Jorge. He had to go to juvenile hall for breaking and entering an old lady’s house. Also, Luis doesn’t care about his father’s junkyard. Jorge takes much pride in his junkyard and Luis doesn’t understand why. Luis always has to stack the hubcaps and thinks it’s stupid to do this. Lastly, Luis never eats with his father. He will always leave and go hang out with his gang. I can connect this thematic idiom to my friend’s life. My friend’s sister is a troublemaker. The rest of their family is well- mannered and well-behaved except the one sister. She gets into so much trouble and makes my friends life very difficult. Her sister makes her life difficult because she feels as if every time her sister does something people reflect it on her.
"Catch the Moon" was a great story telling about a boy who lost his mother and hid his emotions by starting a gang and messing with the local authorities. This story reminds me of the idiom, "You can't unring a bell." This means that once something is done, you have to live with the consequences and it can't be undone. After Luis' mother died, Luis started a gang and kept getting in trouble, there's nothing that can change that and he'll just had to live with the consequences, which in his case was going to juvenile hall. Remember that D.A.R.E. program from sixth grade? The message, "You can't unring a bell," is the exact message that program was trying to teach us. The course was mainly about decision making and fighting off peer pressure. Now, say you start doing drugs, this can't be undone and you'd have to live with the consequences that it brings. Officer Bulch was constantly reminding us about how our choices now can effect the rest of our lives. Thematic idioms are everywhere and they can relate to everything, however, "You can't unring a bell," is the one that best applies to the story, "Catch the Moon."
I think that the thematic idiom that best describes the story would be “Don’t Judge a book by its cover.” I think this because all throughout the story Luis is changing, and his outside (as in his appearance) doesn’t show who he really is. For example at the beginning of the story he was all roughed up from juvie and didn’t care about any thing. At the end of the story though he finally cried for his mom who had died 3 years before. Also, at the end of the story he finally did the first nice thing he had ever done for someone, which was finding Naomi’s Hubcap. Finally he looked the same at the beginning and end of the story but his attitude and personal thing had drastically changed. I can connect to this idiom because a really good friend of mine from camp was French so at fist when I met him I stereotyped him as a typical French snobby and stuck up so didn’t really pay any attention to him. Although as camp went by we started to connect, we started to hang out during our free time, cracking jokes, and giving each other really good advice. Also, I remember that when he was having issues with this other boy that I helped him resolve it. That is why I think the Idiom “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is best for this story
The thematic idiom that applies best to the story “Catch The Moon” by Judith Ortiz Cofer is “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Life has clearly given Luis lemons, some of which he has caused himself: the 6 months in Juvenile Hall, for example. Even so, some of the lemons in Luis’ life are not self-inflicted. His father’s unfortunate occupation, completely out of his control, seems to bother Luis quite a bit at the beginning of the story. However, the biggest lemon in Luis’ life is undoubtedly the death of his mother. Luis does his best to turn the lemons in his life into lemonade. The 6 months in Juvenile Hall appear to teach him a valuable lesson about making good decisions and spending time with the right kinds of people. Luis makes the best of his father’s job when he learns about hard work from polishing everything in the junkyard. He also uses the junkyard to his advantage when he finds the right hubcap to use to impress Naomi.
I can connect to this idiom in a few ways. In the book My Sister’s Keeper, the characters definitely turn lemons into lemonade. When a young girl is killed in a car accident, they use her kidney to save her dying sister. This idiom is also similar to my own life. No matter what I’m doing, I always try to turn lemons into lemonade for myself because I know that in the long run it will be beneficial.
The idiom that best fits with the story “Catch the Moon” by Judith Ortiz Cofer is “Failure is the mother of success.” This idiom means that failure is on the pathway to success. In the story Luis has been dealt a bad hand: he is in a gang called the Tiburones, he goes to Juvenile Hall for six months, and he lost his mom to cancer. It seems that Luis has failed in everything he has tried so hard to do. For example, when he is still apart of the gang he gets caught sneaking into an old lady’s house. However, Luis continues to live his life, and once he is forced back to his father’s junk yard, his life begins to change. Naomi, a girl from the story, needs a hub cap for her car, so Luis tries to look for it without much success. But, even after he has failed he tries again and finally succeeds in finding the hub cap. That is just one example of how Luis uses his failure to finally succeed. Another example is that at first Luis fails in helping his father attend and perfect the junk yard, but with some time Luis uses his failure to succeed in helping his father make the junk yard great.
I connect to this idiom in a multitude of ways. The first way is in my personal life. I too have failed a lot, for example in 6th grade I got a series of bad grades in spelling. However, with hard work and knowing what I did wrong, I was able to fix my mistakes and succeed. Another way I can connect with this story is with another story called, “The Hunger Games,” In that story a poor girls fails at her everyday life and cannot support her family, but later she uses her knowledge from failing so many times to finally succeed. I think the idiom “Failure is the mother of success,” is extremely important, it teaches us to never give up and learn from our mistakes. These qualities make a person stronger just like Luis in the story of “Catch the Moon”.
The idiom that best applies to the short story, “Catch the Moon,” is don’t judge a book by its cover. I chose this because earlier Luis had gone to juvenile hall for breaking and entering. He did that to show that he could to his friends. After that he was released to his father and had to work at the junk yard. When Naomi came to get a hubcap for her car Luis was sitting on a pile of hubcaps when he was supposed to be cleaning them. This shows that he did not want to work. After Naomi left he threw a hubcap like a Frisbee and hit his dad on the head. This shows that he was not responsible. Later that night he had changed and went down to the funeral home were his mother was laid to rest, it is also where Naomi’s family lived. There he sat in his fathers car and cried. This was the first time he had done that since his mother died over 3 years ago. After that he decided to go down to his father’s junk yard to find the hubcap for Naomi and sort the other ones. He called his father ever 15 minutes after curfew to say were he was and that showed responsibility unlike before. In the beginning of the story Luis was irresponsible and with the wrong crowd later he was a strong worker and revealed his true feelings for his mother. This is why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. This is the thematic idiom that I think well describes this short story.
One of the thematic idioms that we explored in class was don’t judge a book by its cover. This thematic idiom means that you should not judge something or someone by appearances, or fist impressions. You should get to know them, and look deeper at what’s inside. This thematic idiom best applies to the story “Catch the Moon”. This is because at first Louis gets into a lot of trouble. He is in a gang, and he gets arrested for breaking and entering. As we read the story we get to know more about Louis and his family. We learn that his mom died a few years back, and that could be why he is acting like this. Towards the end of the story Louis shows some change. He finally lets out his feelings about his mom’s death. He also realizes and better appreciates his fathers work. That’s why that thematic idiom best applies to the story “Catch the Moon”. If you read further you can see that Louis isn’t a bad kid. I can connect to the thematic idiom don’t judge a book by its cover, with the television series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. In one of the episodes Grace doesn’t like Adrian because she thinks she isn’t benevolent. Later in episode Grace gets to know Adrian better, and realizes that she is a kind person. In the end Grace and Adrian end up become really good friends.
My opinion is that the thematic idiom which best applies to Catch the Moon by Judith Ortiz Cofer is ‘rise from the ashes’. In the story, Luis goes through a long period of turmoil when his mother dies. He never sheds tears over her death, and keeps is emotions bottled up. He then starts a gang, which focuses on breaking and entering; not to steal, just to prove that they could do it for the thrill of success. His life goes on another downward spiral when he is caught and sent to Juvenile hall; He does some of his time there, and then the judge allows him to get out in exchange for working without pay (for his father) for a month. One day, he encounters Naomi, the beautiful daughter of the owners of the funeral home where his mother was buried. This causes his emotions to well up, and subconsciously he finally weeps for his mother’s death. After this, he is stuck by a urge to do good things, now that he feels less of a burden over her death; He organizes and shines his father’s hub caps, and gives Naomi the one she was looking for. The ending implies that this streak of benevolence will continue, and that Luis will gradually become a better person.
I can’t help but think that Luis is similar to the character Artemis Fowl, (despite the heavy fantasy and sci-fi theme of Artemis Fowl); Artemis’ father disappears, (along with a huge chunk of the family fortune) and his mother is driven into depression. Vowing to restore the fortune, Artemis abandons some of his morals, looks to new sources of money, and attempts to exploit an advanced subterranean race. Over the course of the series, he slowly develops morals and eventually becomes a better person, like Luis. Both went through periods of turmoil, but in the end they became better people.
Many thematic idioms apply to the short story “Catch the Moon.” In my opinion the idiom Change of Heart best applies to the short story. This idiom means that you change your opinion or feeling about something. In this short story the main character’s name is Luis and he has a change of heart in this short story. In the beginning he hates his father’s junkyard while his father loves it. When he got in trouble with the Law he was forced to work at the junkyard for six months. He like most teens does not want to work in the summer, but he has to. Towards the end of the story he meets this girl Naomi. Meeting her changes his heart and he starts to not hate the junkyard. He even organizes the hubcaps! Throughout the story Luis experiences a change of heart. I can also connect to this thematic idiom. Throughout my life I had experienced a change of heart. When I was little I used to hate playing cards. Then a few years later I played a few card games and started to love them. I had a change of heart because I hated card games and then I loved them. Both Luis and I had a change of heart throughout our life.
“Catch the Moon” is the story of a misunderstood kid named Luis Cintrón. This story could be connected to many thematic idioms, but the one I think it relates best to is “every cloud has a silver lining.” In the story, Luis gets in a lot of trouble after breaking into an old lady’s house and even ends up in juvenile hall. When he gets out, he is given six months of community service at his fathers junkyard. Luis has a very tragic family history. His mother died when he was young from cancer, and he and his father have never been very close ever since. His father was emotionally scarred by his mother’s death, and Luis is still holding in emotions and feelings so that he can never get past her death. This is without a doubt a terrible situation. He is still in trouble with the law, and now he has to work shining hubcaps for his father for the next six months. But, just like the idiom says, there was some good that comes out of this. On his first day a girl walks into the junkyard looking for specific hubcap for her VW Bug. As it works out, this girl’s parents own the funeral parlor where his mother had been taken. Later that night, Luis finds himself out on a drive outside the funeral parlor. This forces him to deal with his bottled-up feelings about his mother’s death, and he is finally able to move on with his life and hopefully he will be less likely to get into trouble again. This was only the first good thing to happen. He eventually finds the girl and works all night to find her hubcap. He next vows to shine and organize all the hubcaps, to help his father realize his life goal. He and the girl become friends after he helps her, and him and his father end up on better terms than they had been on before.
I can relate to this idiom as well. A few years ago my family went over winter break on a 5 day ski and snowboard trip to Jay Peak. The first day was terrible. It was crowded and there was barely any snow on the entire mountain. In the hopes of fixing this dilemma, the next day my dad and I started asking the people operating the ski lifts and the ski patrol where the best snow is. Every person we asked pointed to the glades. Glades are trails where the woods have been thinned rather than cut down. This means that instead of chopping down all the trees they only chop down a few of the smaller trees and cut down the brush. We spent the next three and a half days skiing and snowboarding through scenic backwoods with all the snow and trail to ourselves. Now, the glades are our favorite thing to ride. Every year when my family go to Jay Peak for winter break, my dad and I ride almost entirely glades and no matter how crowded or how bad the conditions are, it is always perfect in the glades.
The thematic idiom I chose for my blog is “Keep your eye on the prize”. This relates to the story because Luis spends all night trying to find the hubcap for Naomi. He kept his eye on the prize and didn’t give up. I think that the real meaning of this idiom is keep trying and don’t give up so easily. That is exactly what Luis did. Also even when he got out of juvenile hall, he tried to help make his dad’s life better. He also decides to organize all of the hubcaps and polish them all, too. Another way this relates is that Luis’s dad wants all of the parts for the cars separated and organized even though he only has to do six months of free labor. Luis’s dad says, “…My dream is to have all the parts divided by year, make of car, and condition. Maybe now that you are here to help me, this will happen.” This quote shows how Luis’s dad kept his eye on the prize. I can personally connect to this idiom because I always try to “keep my eye on the prize”. My grandma always said this to my cousins and me. I always think of this idiom when I’m struggling with something or I feel like giving up. It makes me keep going and I know I won’t give up. This idiom is very helpful to me and has great value in my life.
The thematic idiom that best applies to "Catch the Moon" is "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." When Luis is working at his father's car junkyard, his father says, '"Someday, son, all this will be yours,"' with such pride. Luis does not understand why his father loves his junkyard, but as the saying goes, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Also, when Luis is reminiscing about his dead mother, he recalls how she had not been beautiful, but his father had told everyone that she was. This is another good example of how "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" because Luis did not see the beauty in his mother that his father did. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is true for art, as well. There might be a painting that you think is hideous, but could be someone else's favorite work of art. It all depends on the way you look at things.
The idiom “a rolling stone gathers no moss”, best relates to the short story “Catch the Moon”. This idiom means that people who strive for things and work hard are more successful in life then those who have no goals. In the story, Luis got into a lot of trouble and committed crimes for no reason. He had no goals and no morals. When Naomi came along he realized what he needed to achieve and actually began to work hard. Luis organized all the hubcaps in the lot like his father had dreamed about and even found the matching hubcap to Naomi’s car. He achieved something for once in his life and did something good for someone else, which is a much more successful way to go through life instead of getting into trouble. I can connect a movie I have seen called Step Up, to this idiom. There were a couple of friends who lived in a bad part of the city and who got into a lot of trouble in there spare time, just like Luis did. They thought that they were doing the best they can but they really weren’t. Then a girl came along and changed one of the guy’s lives just like Naomi had changed Luis. He began to work hard to go to a better school and to get a scholarship. He did achieve this goal because he was ambitious just as Luis was in finding the hubcap and organizing the lot. This thematic idiom applies to “Catch the Moon” well.
I think that the idiom that best applies to the story “Catch the Moon” is bottled up inside. Bottled up inside means to keep your emotions and thoughts inside you, not letting yourself express them, or feel them. The whole book is basically about this idiom. When Luis’ mom dies, Luis becomes sad, but doesn’t really show his emotions. He doesn’t grieve or cry over his mother for over three years, keeping them all bottled up inside him. So much emotion inside one can’t be good; it can lead to one making bad choices, which is what Luis did. He started a club called the Tiburones which was basically a club where Luis and his friends hung out and dared each other to do stupid and bad things. That eventually led to Luis going to juvenile hall. It isn’t until Luis finally cries and lets out his emotions in his dad’s car, even saying “I miss you mami”, when things finally start to change for the better. He decides to finally do something helpful for a girl that he loves. I can connect this book to another book, Nailed by Patrick Jones, where the main character also bottle’s everything up inside, taken from the brake up of his longest relationship, his parents not loving him, and getting bullied every day. He eventually cannot take all of this, and gets into a huge fight in school, breaking many of his bones, making him need surgery, and almost getting expelled from school. Both Luis and Bret didn’t stand up to their fears and deal with their hurt, they just avoided them and tucked them away in the back of their heads. However, when they did deal with their emotions, things started getting better for both of them. It’s never good to have everything bottled up inside of you.
I believe that the idiom, “Turn a new leaf”, best describes the theme in the story, “Catch the Moon”. To turn a new leaf would be to change one’s personality and behavior, and start anew by not bad things. This is a perfect example of the protagonist, Luis. In the story, Luis starts out as a cunning, resourceful trickster. He led a gang called the Tiburones or the Sharks. He was able to disguise his gang, giving it a safe and supported role as a school club. With his trickiness, he was able to avoid getting caught, and lied to his superiors countless amounts of times. At one point, he broke into and exited a house just to prove that he could achieve it. He and his gang cause much havoc and chaos before Luis was apprehended. At this point, he was forced into the last thing he ever wanted to do: Work. Yet, in the end, all Luis needed to change was a pretty girl’s face. He ended working harder than ever, and tried to heal the wounds that he had inflicted in a figurative sense. He sat down and ate dinner with his father for the first time in a while, and was kind. He organized all the caps and found Naomi’s just in time for him to deliver it. It is indeed true that Luis went from bad to good.
At one point in my life, I became ignorant. Blinded by my own confidence, I no longer watched what I said, and no longer cared how I said it or anything. They say ignorance is bliss, because you don’t even realize who you are hurting or even if you are hurting them, because your head is way above the clouds. I had a time in my life like that. Although Luis knew what he was doing was wrong, I had no idea. To me, everything that happened went my way until finally, it didn’t. I went from ignoring my bad side and letting it out freely, and changed. I became more introspective at that point, looking at all my faults, trying to fix them. I had done just as Luis did, I turned a new leaf.
The thematic idiom that can be found in the book is “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This one fits because Luis Cintron is a teenager that thinks its fine to do whatever you what to do. But this is only Luis in the start of the book. This is shown when he sees the girl and begins a transformation. He always was a nice boy but he was locked up inside of his feelings. By the end of the book he is doing things for other people without being asked. For example he went and found the hubcap for Naomi. This shows his true person. This is where an idiom is found in the story.
One way that I can relate to this idiom is once a saw a movie of a book and thought that it was really bad. Then my friends told me about the book and how the movie had came out bad. They had said that the book was great. The book was the first movie in the Lords of the Rings trilogy. And I was taught an important lesson about asking around and not to presume things about people or things. This is how I and the book has the idiom “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” inside both of us.
The thematic idiom that applies best to the story “Catch The Moon” by Judith Ortiz Cofer is “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Life has given Luis many lemons. Some of those lemons were under his control and some were not. For example Luis went to Juvenile Hall for 6 months because he thought it would be fun to break into a house. One example of a lemon that is not in his control is his father’s job. His job seems to bother Luis a lot at the beginning of the story. The biggest lemon in Luis’ life is the death of his mother. When his mother died he decided to keep all of his emotions inside and act out instead of expressing his feelings. The 6 months in Juvenile Hall may have influenced him to make lemonade by making him realize he had to think before he acts. For example, when he went to put the hub caps in order he called his father to tell him he was going to be late coming home but he was ok. While he was working at his fathers junkyard he met a girl named Naomi who influenced Luis to work hard and make the right decisions without even talking to him. That is why the thematic idiom that best applies to the story “Catch The Moon” is “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
One way I can connect to this idiom is that when I was younger I got a dog named Spot. The first day we had Spot my parents left him out of his cage to get used to the house while I was at school and they were at work. That day Spot ran around, ripped up pillows, ate my parents check book, and ate the heads off my Barbie dolls. When I got home with my parents instead of them getting make and yelling at Spot they clean up everything and turn a potentially very bad situation into a fun one. My mom said, “Well now I have a reason to get knew pillows.” That is one way I could connect the idiom, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
Catch the Moon is the story of a boy named Luis Citron who has to deal with many conflicts in his life. His mother had recently died of lung cancer, and he spent 6 months in juvenile hall for breaking and entering. However, after going through all of this, he never showed any emotion. Therefore, the idiom i think relates best to the story is "a problem shared is a problem halved." This means that when you talk about your feelings, you will feel much better. This applies to Louis' story because although he hadn't yet talked to anyone yet about his feelings, he finally expressed them in his car when he cried, "Mami, I miss you." This must have really taken a burden off Louis' shoulders, and made him feel much better. I can also relate to this because once, I was earning a bad grade in Science. I didn't want to tell my parents in fear that they'd get mad at me. So for weeks I'd stay up at night worrying, wondering what I could do to improve my grade. Finally, after many sleepless nights, I told my parents about my Science grade. Not only could I finally get some sleep, but my grade started to improve. Catch the Moon was a story I enjoyed very much, and really relates to the idiom "a problem shared is a problem halved," and also to my life.
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