A Hummingbird’s Life In the story “Joyas Voladoras‚” by Brian Doyle‚ he is trying to tell us a message. “Joyas Voladoras” is about hummingbirds‚ amazing yet very small creatures with beautiful colors. Joyas Voladoras‚ flying jewels‚ are what the first white explorers called them. Hummingbirds visit hundreds of flowers every day‚ and have incredible metabolisms that burn their calories quickly. They can fly backwards and can also fly five hundred miles without resting. They spend their lives fast
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The main idea of Brian Doyle‚ “Joyas Voladoras” is how life can be beautiful and tragic simultaneously. “ Consider for a moment those hummingbirds who did not open their eyes again today. . . each the most amazing thing you have never seen‚ each thunderous wild heart the size of an infant’s fingernail‚ each mad heart silent‚ a brilliant music stilled.” In this line‚ Brian Doyle uses metaphor‚ personification‚ hyperbole‚ and parallelism to contrast the beauty and fragility of life. The mention of
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Bethany Davis First Year Writing September 27‚ 2012 The Heart of “Joyas Voladoras” “In our time together‚ you claimed a special place in my heart‚ one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one could ever replace.”-Nicholas Sparks (Dear John). The heart is a very abstruse thing. Scientifically‚ know the differences between a human’s heart and a dog’s heart. They know how many hearts a worm has and how a bacterium has none. Doctors know how to perform surgery on
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Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird. Joyas volardores‚ flying jewels‚ the first white explorers in the Americas called them‚ and the white men had never seen such creatures‚ for hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas‚ nowhere else in the universe‚ more than three hundred species of them whirring and zooming and nectaring in
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Brian Doyle focuses on how a heart is mesmerizing in various ways in his essay “Joyas Volardoras.” However‚ he also shows that a heart is vulnerable to the simplest things in everyday life. He expresses both of these points by having a different outlook on the hearts of hummingbirds‚ whales‚ and humans. Doyle informs us that a hummingbird’s heart is small in size but it is full of strength. Their heart allows them to fly hundreds of miles nonstop and dive sixty miles an hour. Hummingbirds also
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Joyas Voladoras Analysis Essay In Brian Doyle’s essay “Joyas Voladoras”‚ he uses the hummingbird’s heart to describe how small a heart could be so powerful and other examples of hearts to show what it could endure. He mainly tells us with shifts and changes of tone‚ imagery‚ and many selection of details of how the heart is very fragile to emotional events and that life should be lived at its best. Doyle shifts his tone when he writes “…Mammals and birds have hearts with four chambers” he gave
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In “Joyas Voladoras‚” Doyle starts by giving facts about a hummingbird’s heart. Throughout this essay‚ he gradually builds a personal feel towards the reader. For instance. When he says “You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant.” The reader‚ in my opinion‚ can start to connect to the author‚ because they will start comparing their life towards the essay. The author addresses the reader in a personal way by using “we”
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It’s extremely easy to break a heart‚ as it is also very easy to die. Not only are the fragility of the two similar‚ but the metaphorical and physical descriptions of the heart are greatly similar in many other ways. In Doyle’s short story‚ “Joyas Voladoras‚” from Ways of Reading‚ he uses the physical description of the heart to show how fragile and short life is‚ but also shows the fragility of relationships and having complete trust of another person. As a human‚ one feigns strength as a guise
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Throughout his work‚ Joyas Voladoras‚ Brian Doyle describes the life and the heart of different mammals‚ focusing on the hummingbird and the blue whale. By contrasting these two‚ Doyle introduces an interesting idea of life‚ not only between hummingbirds and whales‚ but with all living things. “Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heart beats to spend in a lifetime” (274). Hummingbirds live a fast paced life. “Each one visits a thousand flowers a day” Doyle writes‚ “they can drive
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Summary of Brian Doyle’s “Joyas Volardoras” Brian Doyle focuses on how a heart is mesmerizing in various ways in his essay “Joyas Volardoras.” However‚ he also shows that a heart is vulnerable to the simplest things in everyday life. He expresses both of these points by having a different outlook on the hearts of hummingbirds‚ whales‚ and humans. Doyle informs us that a hummingbird’s heart is small in size but it is full of strength. Their heart allows them to fly hundreds of miles nonstop
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