Joyas Voladoras Analysis

Gioncarlo Faczek

Meg Riley ICW

11/4/2013

Joyas Voladoras Analysis

            In Joyas Voladoras, Brian Doyle did an excellent job explaining to us the difference between humming birds and blue whales. Also the way he wrote about each animal, the style of writing changed. When he was describing the humming bird, he used many descriptive verbs. While reading about the humming bird, I felt like one because Doyle combined sentences to one so the reader would have to read it all at once at a fast pace. Just like a humming bird. After reading Joyas Voladoras, the last paragraph made me rethink about this essay. The essay first appeared to be about creatures great and small suddenly turned into an essay about human nature. But thinking about this essay, it’s true we may be different shapes and sizes but we all have something in common.

            Throughout the essay Doyle touched on the hearts of humming birds and blue whales. But at the end he took a different turn with it. He talks about the human heart and the emotions it brings with. “We are utterly open with no on, in the end.” What this is saying is our hearts can take so much bruising and scarring. The meaning of the word heart changes throughout the reading. He talks about how the humming birds heart and how it has faster pace than us and even blue whales. With Blue whales their lifestyle is completely different from the humming bird. They live a slow pace lifestyle, but they have a humongous heart compared to the humming bird. But at the end the humming bird and the blue whale combined is equivalent to an human heart.