The Distance of the Moon
this was one of my favorite reads of the semester. i loved the imagery the author conveyed, especially the textures present on the moon: the scales, the smooth mud, and the moon milk between the cracks. i also found it an interesting treatment of a love story because not everything is explained completely. at the end we still do not know whether the wife was in love with the moon or the cousin, and both remain justifiable with the information presented to the reader.
  while reading the beginning my mind immediately made a connection between this story and the animated short Luna. i would not be surprised if i found out it served as inspiration. the largest similarity was the use of ladders. the moon in Luna is very close just like in this story, and the characters use a ladder to reach its surface. they are also in the middle of a vast expanse of water and are in a boat.
   one part i particularly enjoyed was the little girl who starts of floating between the gravitational pull of the two bodies. the imagery of her being covered in sea life was fantastic and has inspired me to latter go on and attempt to illustrate such a scene.
   another aspect that stuck out to me was the wife being left on the moon. so often in stories we here of the man in the moon, yet here it is a harp playing woman residing on then moon. i am curious to here what the authors inspiration was for this story and whether they use any of the older folk lore.
   this story was not only fun to read but was creatively inspiring as well. there was definitely a mystical and calm quality the came through the text, almost tranquil in a way. i will definitely look for other works by this author in the future.
 

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