The protagonist in The First Seven years is Feld. Feld owns a shop and is a shoemaker. He is a hard worker, but suffers heart problems and can’t work very hard now. Feld has …show more content…
Sobel worked for seven years because he loved Miriam so much. He didn’t even know if he would get to be with her, but he kept working. Sobel didn’t give up on getting Miriam and in the end he got her. This shows that you should always try and work hard for someone you love and care about. This can kinda relate to the next story I am going to describe. The title of this story is Catch the Moon.
The protagonist in Catch the Moon is a teenager named Luis Cinturon. Luis is a troubled boy who doesn’t really behave. His mother died and it made him very aggressive, and distant. Luis was sent to juvie for breaking into an old woman's house. Now Luis works for his dad scrubbing hubcaps all day. He doesn’t have a very good attitude towards his job.
A girl named Naomi is looking for a certain hubcap so she goes to where Luis works. Luis’s dad is the owner of the shop. As soon as Luis sees Naomi his attitude changes a little. They have to search and find the hubcap for her. Luis searches and cleans all of the hubcaps trying to find the right one. One night Luis is driving and he stops by Naomi's house. He taps on her window, but she can’t let him in because she's alone. So, they talk and write notes back and forth to each other. Luis has an idea and he leaves Naomi to go work on something. Luis goes to the mound of hubcaps and finds the one she needs. He shines it until he can see his reflection. He then