Question

catch the moon
sample annotation
literary elements
luis’s thoughts and
feelings about his
organization are told
from the third - person
point of view. phrases
like “copped out” signal
informal, teenager talk.
the narrator’s defiant,
sarcastic tone matches
the character
luis’s tone.
5 man, had they had a good time. the girls were interested too. luis outsmarted
everybody by calling his organization a social club and registering it at
central high. that meant they were legal, even let out of last - period class on
fridays for their “club” meetings. it was just this year, after a couple of botched
jobs, that the teachers had started getting suspicious. the first one to go
wrong was when he sent kenny mota to borrow some “souvenirs” out of
anita robles’s locker. he got caught. it seems that mota had been reading
anita’s diary and didn’t hear her coming down the hall. anita was supposed
to be in the gym at that time but had copped out with the usual female excuse
of cramps. you could hear her screams all the way to market street.
6 she told the principal all she knew about the tiburones, and luis had to talk
fast to convince old mr. williams that the club did put on cultural activities such
as the save the animals talent show. what mr. williams didn’t know was that
the animal that was being “saved” with the ticket sales was luis’s pet boa,
which needed quite a few live mice to stay healthy and happy. they kept e.
s. (which stood for “endangered species”) in luis’s room, but she belonged
to the club and it was the members’ responsibility to raise the money to feed
their mascot. so last year they had sponsored their first annual save the
animals talent show, and it had been a great success. the tiburones had
come dressed as latino elvises and did a grand finale to “all shook up” that
made the audience go wild. mr. williams had smiled while luis talked, maybe
remembering how the math teacher, mrs. laguna, had dragged him out in
the aisle to rock - and - roll with her. luis had gotten out of that one, but barely.
7 his father was a problem, too. he objected to the t - shirt logo, calling it
disgusting and vulgar. mr. cintrón prided himself on his own neat, elegant
style of dressing after work, and on his manners and large vocabulary, which
he picked up by taking correspondence courses in just about everything.
luis thought it was just his way of staying busy since luis’s mother had died,
almost three years ago, of cancer. he had never gotten over it.
8 all this was going through luis’s head as he slid down the hill of hubcaps. the
tub full of soapy water, the can of polish, and the bag of rags had been neatly
placed in front of a makeshift table made from two car seats and a piece of
plywood. luis heard a car drive up and someone honk their horn. his father
emerged from inside a new red mustang that had been totaled. he usually
dismantled every small feature by hand before sending the vehicle into the
cementerio, as he called the lot. luis watched as the most beautiful girl he
had ever seen climbed out of a vintage white volkswagen bug. she stood in
the sunlight in her white sundress waiting for his father, while luis stared. she
was like a smooth wood carving. her skin was mahogany, almost black, and
her arms and legs were long and thin, but curved in places so that she did not
look bony and hard—more like a ballerina. and her ebony hair was braided
close to her head. luis let his breath out, feeling a little dizzy. he had forgotten
to breathe. both the girl and his father heard him. mr. cintrón waved him over.
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Explanation:

The text is an excerpt from a literary work, focusing on character thoughts, plot development, and literary elements (as seen in the "Sample Annotation" about point of view, tone). The subfield Literature under Arts is appropriate as it deals with analyzing literary texts, characters, and narrative techniques.

Answer:

Arts - Literature