Catch The Moon Analysis

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Life lessons Have you ever owned a car that it’s so old that you can’t find parts for it ? My topic is the story Catch the Moon by Judith Ortiz Cofer . Its when a bad kid find the right path to a better life . His dad is trying to teach him how to take care of the family junkyard . But the kid just see’s him making him to do chores. Someday, son, all this will be yours”(pg.63) is something his father said. It’s his father saying that his junkyard will be his one day . So he’ll have to learn how to take care of it and learn to do the chores. So one day he’ll be able to run the junkyard by himself so he can be independant just like his father was when his wife died . ”Next time you’ll probably decapitate”(pg.66) fair warned his father. His

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