The Hummingbird's Heart In Joyas Voladoras By Bryan Doyle

The author who wrote this text “Joyas Voladoras” is Bryan Doyle. When Bryan Doyle writes, he not only expresses his feelings but he puts his whole heart into the story. He puts his heart into the story means that he does his best and makes his story very compelling. Brian Doyle has two boys named Liam and Joseph. His son Liam has a chamber in his heart missing, only 3 chambers in his heart while we humans have four chambers in our heart. This chapter “Joyas Voladoras” from the book The Wet Engine tells us that Liam only has 3 chambers in his heart and how many operations Liam had and how Doyle struggled. He also talks about hummingbird hearts, whale hearts, and how many chambers different creatures have in their hearts. Later on in the story, he talks about human emotion and a little bit about his son Liam and how the whole story has a certain reason for it. The deeper message Brian Doyle is conveying to us in “Joyas Voladoras” is to love your life, you only have one life so you have to live it with meaning and with purpose.
Doyle’s son, Liam has a heart like hummingbird’s heart. This is what makes both of them have feelings while alive or dead. “But when they rest, they come close to death: on frigid nights, or when they are starving, they retreat into torpor, their metabolic rate slowing to a fifteenth of their normal sleep rate, their hearts coming nearly to a halt, barely beating, and if they are not soon warmed, if they do not soon find that which is sweet, their hearts grow cold, and they cease to be” (pg 30, lines 17-26). Doyle is trying to say, that the hummingbird is really active and it hardly even rests if likes to fly for the most of his life. Their hearts make them stay active and the metabolism energy for animals when they