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 that a good thematic idiom to represent this story is, "If you lay down with the dogs you will get flees." My reasoning is that Luis did bad things with bad kids and wasn't very smart with his choices. Plus his friends rubbed off on him and he didn't do well in school and took dares just to prove they could. My connection is that when i first moved to Bethany i made a few friends and some weren't really good friends, and they had even worse friends. so i sayed away from that group of kids so they couldn't rub off on me.
The thematic idiom the relates to the story the most was, " If you lie down with the dogs, You'll get up with fleas." Because Luis was "hanging out" with the wrong group of students,he endd up doing bad things.It relates to me because I hhave hung out with the wrong group of kids and ended up doing some things i regret, but being were I am now has changed the things I do.
I think the best idiom that applies to "Catch the Moon" is "If you lie down with the dogs, you will get up with fleas." This idiom connects with "Catch the Moon because Luis started to hang out with people that would get in trouble with the authorities, and he anded up in Juvenile Hall.
Catch the Moon is mostly like the idiom the grass is greener on the other side. I can connect to this idiom because my parents tell me this all of the time. I can connect to this stories idiom because when I was trying out for my new soccer team I did not make it and that same night. My dad got an email from another coach and said he wanted me to play for them. So my dad told me the grass is always greener on the other side. Also, I have seen a movie called The Last Point when there is a football coach tells his son to quit the team he is on and go to another team. But, the son does not want to go and the 2 teams end up playing each other and the other team wins. So, the dad told his son the grass is always greener on the other side. It relates to the story because when Luis finds the girl he likes he sees that the grass is greener and he becomes a nicer person. That is why the idiom The Grass is Greener on the other side is good for the story Catch the Moon.
I think that the idiom that best represent “Catch the Moon” is “If you lie down with the dog, you will get up with fleas.” I think this because when Luis started hanging out with the gang that he was in he started acting and doing bad things like he got sent to Juvenile Hall. So I think that since he stated hanging out with his friends that their behavior rubbed off on him.
I think a thematic idiom that fits with the story Catch the Moon is "if you lay down with the dogs you will get up with fleas." To me, that means that if you hang around the wrong group of people, you’ll end up in trouble; just like what happened in the story. Luis was a good guy until he started hanging out with the wrong crowd. He and his friends did things such as steal, lie, and dangerous dares. For instance, Luis lied to his school and said he started a club to benefit charity, but really he just wanted to get out of school early. Luis even got sent to juvy because his friends said they didn’t think he could break into an old woman’s house and get away with it. I can connect to this thematic idiom because I, too, used to hang around with the wrong crowd. Although I never got in as big trouble as Luis, I got close to it and by then I realized I should find better people to hang out with.
One thematic idiom that represents Catch the Moon is if you lie down with the dogs you’ll get up with fleas. This is a good idiom because in the story Luis hangs out with people who are a bad influence which is like lying down with the dogs. Then he gets in trouble and has to work for his dad six months without pay. This is an example of the part that says you will get up with fleas. My connection is that I’ve had friends who have influenced some of my bad choices. Now I do what I think is right even if some of my friends don’t agree.
I found that in the book a good idom to describe it would be. What goes around comes around. I find this to be true because of what Luis experienced when he was in the gang compared to when he started doing things for others rather than for himself. When Luis was in the gang he went to Juvinile hall and had to work for his dad. Compared to when he was doing stuff for his dad and Naomi everything seemed like it would actually go better for him.
I have experienced this when I started doing alot around my house. going the extra mile. My parents were alot nicer about letting me watch more TV and play videogames. And they also started giving me a bit of money. This shows that if you do bad things bad things will happen to you. and that if you do good things good things will happen to you. Pretty much karma.
I think a good idiom for “Catch the Moon” would be “Between A Rock And A Hard Place” I think this idiom is a good one because its saying stuck between two very bad options. Further more this represents the character in the story because has is stuck in the middle with bad decisions and is struggling to get out of them. I can relate to this story and Luis because I made bad decisions in my life like Luis also one time I was stuck in a situation like Luis and hung out with bad kids and my bad choices but I went away from that group and I’m making new friends and making good choices like Luis at the end of the story.
The thematic idiom that I believe best applies to the short story “Catch the Moon” is “If you lie down with the dogs, you will get fleas” The idiom I chose connects to the short story due to the fact that in the beginning of the story , Louis had been getting in trouble in high school mainly because of the “social group’’ that he hung around with and which he organized himself. The whole idea of this “club’’ was to take risks, to go to excruciating limits on a dare, or even breaking into a house not to steal anything but to prove they could do it. Louis’s job for this “club” was to come up with difficult plans for guys who wanted to join the Tiburones. This group was all about irritating the local authorities. Louis got sent to juvie and ended up in juvenile hall for breaking and entering in the older woman’s home . I can relate to this because in the book I read for summer reading was about a girl named Dallas who loved “skating” with her disloyal friends. This “skating “ existed of shoplifting, hot wiring cars, purse snatching, but up in until that day she never thought she’d get caught with a gun. After her “friends” pressured her into holding up a convenience store, her “friends” immediately fled the scene once authorities arrived. Immediately after the incident, Dallas’s Father abandoned her and that’s when her world began to change forever. Once at the rehabilitation facility, she had to adjust to sharing living quarters, many planned schedules, lectures on drugs and sex, and many unpredictable personalities of many people.
I think that thematic idiom that best applies to "Catch the Moon" is "If you lay down with the dogs you’re going to get up with flees." I think this because Louis hangs out with the wrong crowed which is the sharks and gets into a lot of trouble. I can relate to this because in D.A.R.E in sixth grade officer Foote said this idiom regarding hanging out with the wrong crowed can get you into drugs. In conclusion that is the idiom that i think best fits "Catch the Moon" and how I can connect to it.
I think a good Idiom for “Catch the Moon” is “If you lie down with the dogs you will get up with fleas”. This Idiom means that if you are with a group of people you will be treated like them even if you are better then them. In the story Luis starts a gang a trouble makers when his mother dies then he gets in trouble and goes to Juvenile hall. I can connect to this because last year I went to a party and started hanging out with some people, they were cool at first but then they decided they thought it would be fun to cause some trouble so I decided that it wasn’t the best to be hanging out with them.
The thematic idiom that relates to “Catch the Moon” would be, “if you lie down with the dogs, you will get up with fleas.” I think that this idiom works with the story because Luis was hanging around with a bad crowd. He was making bad decisions and even started a gang type of thing with his friends. He did something bad and it backfired on him. He could have been a lot smarter and made better decisions, however his anger from his mother’s death had a big impact on him. I can connect to this idiom. One time, I got really backed up on homework and my work for school. I even had a couple of quizzes that I just blew off studying for and I hung out with my friends instead. I made a bad choice and in the end, it didn’t go so well for me. I ended up getting bad grades on those quizzes and I had to turn all those assignments in late, so I got points taken off. To fix my mistakes, I had to do some extra credit and work a lot harder. In “Catch the Moon” Luis made bad decisions but in the end, he made better ones. He got to know his dad better and he respected his dad’s job. He also helped this girl Naomi that was pretty much just a stranger to him. Luis did change but the idiom “if you lie down with the dogs, you will get up with fleas” definitely relates to his early decisions in “Catch the Moon”.
I think a good idiom for the short story Catch The Moon would be never judge a book by its cover. I picked this for many reasons. One reason is becuase the main character Luis Cintron was always a good person. He just had alot of anger building up inside for many years, mostly about his mothers death. He dealt with his anger by getting into trouble with the police, and was sentenced to six months of free labor. He also did daring things like break into peoples houses and not take anything. He meet this girl Naomi. Meeting this girl helped him express his snowballed feelings. He started crying when he was with Naomi. He has not cried in three years. I can make a connection with the idiom Never Judge A Book by its cover. In grammer school I met this kid who was always picking kids smaller then him. He did this because his parents were getting a divorce. He kept his feelings inside and did not tell his parents how he felt about the cituation. After the final divorce he told his parents. He came to school and was a new person. Just like the bully in grammer, Luis was always a good person. He just did not deal with his anger the right way. If you thought of him as a criminal, you might want to get to no him and you would figure out that he is and always be a good person.
sIn my opinion the best thematic idiom for "Catch the Moon" is " if you lay down with the dogs you will get up with flea's." In the story "Catch the Moon" we met this rebellious kid named Louis. Louis is a 16 year old guy who went to ju-v for breaking and entering. At the time he was in a gang called " The Sharks." Once you read the beginning of the story you think that Louis is just a jerk, but as you read on you find out that their is more to the story.Sadly, two years earlier Louis's Mom died. If that isn't bad enough Louis and his Dad are not too fond of each other. So when they were both experiencing such a tough time in they're lives they had no one to express their feelings with. At the end of the story you see that Louis had no where to let his emotions free so he turned his sorrow into anger with his gang. That is where the quote " if you lay down with the dogs you will get up with fleas " comes in. The quote means that if you become involved with bad company, there will be negative consequences. That relates to Louis quite well. - when Louis started the gang he was looking for people to bond with and what ended up happening was he started getting in trouble with the law. Which made his life even more complicated than it already was. I can relate because when I was 12 in middle school I did the wrong thing, by hanging out with people that weren't nice to everyone. I quickly realized that I was hanging out with them and being mean to people, that my friends didn't think were so called "cool enough" just so i could be popular. That ended up being the wrong thing to do and i realized it a little too late. I ended up losing some friendships because I was hanging out with the wrong group of people; instead of being the nice person that my parents raised me to be. Although I lost some friendships I was able to gain some of them back by being myself and not being influenced by the people around me. Honestly, speaking from experience if you do something wrong no matter what there will be a consequence.
I think that a good thematic idiom to represent this story is, "If you lay down with the dogs you will get up with flees." I think this idiom is good because when Luis was hanging out with his gang, “the sharks” he was getting into a lot of trouble. He had to complete six months of labor and work for his father to stay out of trouble. His actions were being influenced by his friends, he just wanted to impress them. He was getting into trouble with the wrong crowd of kids. My connection is that wen I was younger I had these friends that I would always joke around with. We would always get into trouble at school or at home, just like Luis and his friends. When I stopped hanging out with them I stayed out of trouble and did what I had to do.
I think the best thematic idiom for “Catch the Moon” was, “if you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.” This fits this story perfectly because the protagonist (Luis) hangs out with the wrong group of guys. Luis is a young rebellious sixteen year old boy, who was sent to juvenile hall for breaking and entering. He is also the leader of his gang called “the sharks” who were a troublesome group. I thought in the beginning Luis was a mean person, but once I dug deeper into his past, I realized, that the death of his mother probably caused most of his change. At the age of fourteen Luis’s mother died, and him and his dad were not really getting along. He had used his anger and sadness to create “the sharks.” I can relate to this because I had once been hanging out with some people I shouldn’t have. I almost got into some serious trouble but bailed out just in time. I had stopped hanging out with them after that incident and got in less trouble.
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I think a good idiom for the short story “Catch the Moon” would be never judge a book by its cover. I picked this for many reasons. One reason is because the main character, Luis Cintron, might seem like a bad person to some people, but he is always a good person. Luis just has a lot of anger building up inside for many years, mostly about his mother’s death. He also runs and is the creator of a club at school. He thinks of dares to do and then goes do them to prove that they are tough. One example of his dares was when Luis breaks into someone’s house, but does not take anything. He dealt with his anger by getting into trouble with the police, and was sentenced to six months of free labor. He goes and works with his dad. He meets this girl Naomi when she drives her Volkswagen Beetle to his dad’s shop. Meeting this girl helped him express his feelings. He goes to Naomi’s house and waits outside her window. He started crying when he is with Naomi. He has not cried in three years. I can make a connection with the idiom Never Judge a Book by its cover. In grammar school I met this kid who was always picking kids smaller than him. He did this because his parents were getting a divorce. He kept his feelings inside and did not tell his parents how he felt about the situation. After the final divorce he told his parents how he felt. He came to school and was a new person. Just like the bully in grammar, Luis was always a good person. He just did not deal with his anger the right way. If you thought of Luis as a criminal, you might want to get to know him and you would figure out that he is and always will be a good person.
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