Joyas Voldares Analysis

“Joyas Volardores” by Brian Doyle In “Joyas Voldares” by Brian Doyle, Doyle starts off the essay by saying “Consider the humming bird for a long moment” (Doyle 64), because he starts off the essay this way it feels like Doyle is forcing you to take your time while reading the paper and not to rush through it making sure that you do not miss the message that he is trying to get across, which is that you never know what is truly inside a persons’ heart. After that first line he begins to talk about humming birds and how the humming bird has a heart the size of a pencil eraser but is in fact one of the strongest heart on earth, strong than a human heart, “Their hearts are built of thinner, leaner fibers than ours. Their arteries are stiffer and more taut. They have more mitochondria in their heart muscles-anything to gulp more oxygen. Their hearts are stripped to the skin for the war against gravity and inertia, the mad search for food, the insane idea of flight” (Doyle 65). The job of a heart in any animal is to provide them with life and give them the ability to experience of living and what it means to exist in this world. Because the heart gives life to every animal on Earth it can also take it away, in the
He says “So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment.” (Doyle 66). Of all the facts Doyle used in this essay I believe that this one is the most accurate, no one can measure the capacity of a heart and this is exactly what Doyle is saying, you don’t know how much someone has inside their heart, everyone’s heart is different the all have a different life different memories, experiences and only the person knows what’s in there and the true capacity of their own heart. He precedes to talk about how we try to open up our heart to people we care about but in the end we are all alone, and that’s what we are afraid of is being alone which is why we open up to the ones who mean the most