Multiple Metaphors In Brian Doyle's Joyas Voladores

Brian Doyle’s “Joyas Voladores” is uses multiple metaphors an imagery to convey cautionary advice on how to love through the use of reflective and pessimistic as well as emotional, poetic, and scholar diction. His main purpose is to warn the audience against sharing their hearts with others and how it only leads to inevitable misery and scarring.
The author’s use of metaphors shows the reader how every living being is capable of giving and receiving love. He uses the examples of the smallest heart, a humming bird’s, to the largest ones, a blue whale’s. He even comments on different types of hearts with different amounts of chambers. This is all to prove that all hearts are similar in structure and purpose. However, all of these examples start