By examining Luis in Catch The Moon, by Julia Ortiz, we can see that there is an evident change between him in the beginning and the end. In the beginning of the story, Luis is trying to be someone he isn't, however we can see that he goes through a powerful emotional change due to Naomi reminding him of his mother’s death. When the story starts, Luis is rebellious and does things just to prove he can, “doing something dangerous, like breaking into a house, not to steal, just to prove that they could do it” (Ortiz 221). For example, Luis was in juvenile hall for breaking into a house. He didn’t take anything because it was done on a dare. The turning point of this story is when Naomi shows up at Luis’s father's junkyard looking for a hubcap
