CATCH THE MOON

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CATCH THE MOON” BY JUDITHORTIZ COFERIn Judith Ortiz Cofer’s short story, “Catch The Moon”, is about a teenage boy named LuisCintron, who lost himself when his mother died, Luis works along with his father at a car placeafter he got out of jail. A girl named Naomi, she is that couple’s daughter who works at hismother’s funeral, Naomi came to the car place trying to find a hubcap that belonged to an old car.Luis really wanted to impress Naomi, so he washed all the hubcaps until he found her hubcap,then he drives to her house and he waits to give her the best gift he has ever given to anyone.Judith Ortiz Cofer, an author, was born on February 24, 1952, in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. Shewas raised on an island in New Jersey. Later, her family moved to Augusta, Georgia. She wasdiagnosed with a rare type of liver cancer and on December 30, 2016, she died in JeffersonCounty, Georgia at the age of 64. She was a professor, creative writing and literature at th