Catch The Moon Luis Cintron Analysis
In the story “Catching the moon” Luis Cintron was just released into his father, Jorge Cintron’s, custody after 6 months in a juvenile detention center for a breaking and entering. Luis did it for a dare. Unfortunately, the old lady was a light sleeper and also had a very good aim with her aluminum cane. His father determined that Luis should wash and polish every single hubcap in the yard. Lately, Luis has been getting in trouble since he started high school with his “social group” he organized. The group is based on a bunch of guys who liked to harass the local authorities and to do something very dangerous like breaking into a house, not to steal, but to prove that they could do it. Luis’s specialty was coming up with complicated strategies
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You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous”. She also believed that her daughter could be a prodigy. In the beginning her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. Once her mother had that thought in her head she took the girl to the beauty training school in the Mission District and put her in the hands of a student. Instead of getting big fat curls, like Shirley, she emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. The girl’s mother dragged her to the bathroom and tried to wet down her hair. She said "You look like a Negro Chinese.” The instructor of the beauty training school had to cut off the clumps to make her hair even again. "Peter Pan is very popular these days" the instructor told her mother. She now had bad hair the length of a boy’s; with curly bangs that hung at a slant two inches above her eyebrows.
“Catching the moon” and “Two Kinds” are very similar stories. Luis Cintron is the kind of person who holds in his emotions and doesn’t talk to anyone about his problems. Instead of letting his emotions flow out he holds them in and buries them deep down. His entire bad boy image came from the pain and suffering he was feeling inside from his mom’s death. In ‘two kinds” the Chinese girl didn’t like how her parents had high expectations and planned her future for her. So when she grew up she realized that they only wanted the best for her and regretted what she did in the past that disappointed her
You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous”. She also believed that her daughter could be a prodigy. In the beginning her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. Once her mother had that thought in her head she took the girl to the beauty training school in the Mission District and put her in the hands of a student. Instead of getting big fat curls, like Shirley, she emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. The girl’s mother dragged her to the bathroom and tried to wet down her hair. She said "You look like a Negro Chinese.” The instructor of the beauty training school had to cut off the clumps to make her hair even again. "Peter Pan is very popular these days" the instructor told her mother. She now had bad hair the length of a boy’s; with curly bangs that hung at a slant two inches above her eyebrows.
“Catching the moon” and “Two Kinds” are very similar stories. Luis Cintron is the kind of person who holds in his emotions and doesn’t talk to anyone about his problems. Instead of letting his emotions flow out he holds them in and buries them deep down. His entire bad boy image came from the pain and suffering he was feeling inside from his mom’s death. In ‘two kinds” the Chinese girl didn’t like how her parents had high expectations and planned her future for her. So when she grew up she realized that they only wanted the best for her and regretted what she did in the past that disappointed her