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…
a daughter and all he wants is for her to find love. He tries to provide his daughter with a better life than he had. Feld, can be very controlling, but also very loving. He just wants what is best for his daughter.
The main conflict of the story is that Feld wants his daughter Miriam to find love. Feld is willing to do anything to make her happy. There is a boy named Max that walks past the shop everyday. He was a smart boy, with good looks. Feld waited one day and decided to talk to the boy. He asked Max to take Miriam on a date, hoping that Miriam would accept. Max and Miriam go on the date, but Miriam isn’t interested on a second one. This upsets the shoemaker and he does not know why. The same day that Feld asked Max to date Miriam was the same day his helper Sobel walked out. Feld went and talked to Sobel and realized that Sobel had worked for him all those years because he loved Miriam. Miriam, also admitted that she was in love with Sobel. Feld told Sobel to wait until she was an appropriate age and then he could have her.
Feld changes and realizes that if Miriam is happy then he is happy. He was always trying to find her love, and all this time she was in love. Feld just wants Miriam to have a good life. In the end Feld has a better understanding for Miriam. He realizes that she can make her own decisions and choices. Feld needs to be less controlling and more respectful of his daughter’s choices.
The theme of the story is that if you love someone you should work hard to get them.
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
takes it back to Naomi and hangs it on a branch outside her window. He had searched and found it for her, and also found feelings for her as well.
Luis starts out as a delinquent and in the end changes into a good kid. He did bad things in the beginning, and also had a bad attitude. When Luis meets Naomi his whole way of acting changed. He became more responsible, and had a better attitude towards his job. Luis started seeing things in a better way and found love and happiness again.
The theme of the story is that even though things seem bad they will get better, Luis’s mother died, and he was in a bad place. He met Naomi though and he found love. He became happier and better behaved. He was in a bad place with a bad attitude, but with time he was happy, and had a new perspective on life. In the end of both stories both main characters were happy and got what they had been looking for.