Sept 2010 “A hummingbird’s heart is as small as a pencil eraser‚ a whale’s heart is as big as a room‚ and a human’s heart is somewhere in between the two.” Brain Doyle introduces various aspects of hearts to the reader in his essay “Joyas Voladoras.” Doyle himself writes‚ “A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. They can dive at sixty miles an hour’’(273). Doyle describes the physical aspect of a hummingbird’s heart. The uniqueness of a hummingbird’s heart limits its life span roughly
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In the passage "Joyas Voladoras‚" the author‚ Brian Doyle‚ takes an intriguing approach on the topic of hearts. While only slightly over two pages‚ the author uses metaphors in the essay to perfectly capture and discuss the life humans live‚ the reality of the human heart and the pain of love. With comparisons such as the hummingbird and turtle heartbeat speed‚ Doyle explains that there are various ways to live a life. Doyle also stresses the fact that human life is invaluable throughout the writing
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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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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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acknowledged as a paradox of the heart‚ Joyas Voladoras‚ flying jewels‚ tells the notion of how centric the heart’s role is when choosing your way of life. Brian Doyle initiates his article with a considerable amount of information regarding hummingbirds and blue whales‚ their way of life and the size of their hearts. When first processing such seemingly unsystematic facts about organisms of contrasting species‚ I had admittedly begun to question where Joyas Voladoras stood. Highly informative‚ however
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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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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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"Joyas Voladoras" is very beautiful‚ author Brian Doyle uses many poetic words to describe the movement of the humming bird and whale. He then mentions about how humming birds’ hearts are fragile and weak‚ which they burn out their life in two years. He then moves on to talk about the biggest heart in the world‚ whales’ hearts. Their hears are enormous‚ they beat very slowly and that is why they can live for over two hundred years. Afterwards‚ he moves on to the humans’ heart. He says that all living
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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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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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