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“Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle is a very intresting piece of literature for when you start off reading the title one does not have an idea of what it will be about since it is Spanish but the translation is quickly given in the first few lines as a way for the reader, us, to start to make a connection between the title and the main topic of his article, the hummingbird. As if it was not obvious enough by how he states that they are flying jewels, Doyle uses repetition in the first paragraph to get his point across of how much he admires the humming bird. At first glance the article may seem to lose focus quickly as it changes topic from the hummingbird to an elephant, to a whale, to the human but he does this to focus on what we all have in common which is a heart. In his eyes the hummingbird is a jewel because it is beautiful in the way it lives it’s life, the way that its heart is so big, proportionally, that it takes up most of the size of the small bird. How the heart beats faster but in the end the hummingbird lives more in those two years then any other animal does in their lifetime.
Doyle starts the article in admiration for the life the hummingbird lives and how if they do not find that which is sweet their hearts grow cold and their hearts grow cold, which is used as a metaphor for the food they live off and connects to the last paragraph when he starts talking about humans themselves and how everyone searches for the special someone but in the end every human’s heart is bruised and scarred. This changes his tone, while he is in deep admiration of how the hummingbird lives in the end he is nothing but pessimistic about the life of a human about how even though the hummingbird has a smaller and more fragile heart, it is humans that are constantly hurt and live with danger of living life to the fullest.
Which just makes me think that Brian Doyle has not only been hurt before but wishes he could live like a hummingbird, without worries and no regrets….some of which all of us have.
My understanding of Joyas Voladoras By Brian Doyle
Doyle starts the article in admiration for the life the hummingbird lives and how if they do not find that which is sweet their hearts grow cold and their hearts grow cold, which is used as a metaphor for the food they live off and connects to the last paragraph when he starts talking about humans themselves and how everyone searches for the special someone but in the end every human’s heart is bruised and scarred. This changes his tone, while he is in deep admiration of how the hummingbird lives in the end he is nothing but pessimistic about the life of a human about how even though the hummingbird has a smaller and more fragile heart, it is humans that are constantly hurt and live with danger of living life to the fullest.
Which just makes me think that Brian Doyle has not only been hurt before but wishes he could live like a hummingbird, without worries and no regrets….some of which all of us have.
My understanding of Joyas Voladoras By Brian Doyle
Joyas voladoras was an interesting article about how animals of all different sizes are still the same tied to together by the similareties we have in common. This reflections talks about my take on the the article and how I saw it as I was reading the article, I may have taken the article from a different perspective than some but it still can be applied to a life lesson. With those thoughts I come across the idea that a short but fulfilling life is what the reader desires more then a boring and long life.