A Rhetorical Analysis Of Joyas Voladoras By Brian Doyle

The circumstances in which this passage takes place is obviously the time after Hassan's rape, in which the guilt is killing is torturing Amir and he is has realized that the choices that he made that day has truly hurt more people than he could've ever imagined. A metaphor that I found that led me to believe this would be him saying, ". . . the monster in the lake". I think that this metaphor represents the moment in which Amir has begun to acknowledge that he is the person that unintentionally is causing the ones around him to suffer with his selfish actions, the monster. Another metaphor that I found would be, "I was the snake in the grass". This metaphor represents Amir seeing that the people who are around him get hurt by him unexpectedly. Think of Amir as obviously the snake hiding within the grass and he's the predator. Hassan would be the prey

Doyle begins “Joyas Voladores” by putting the image of a hummingbird into the view of his audience. Plunging deeper into the details and inner workings of the heart, the author describes just how fast this organ must beat to keep up with the demands of the bird’s existence, and the attributes that allow it to do so,

Brian Doyle is a writer that composed an analysis essay on the story Joyas Voladoras. Doyle was born in 1956, and is the editor for Portland Magazine at the the University of Portland, which is located in Portland, Oregon. A numerous amount of Brian Doyle’s essays have made appearances at the Best American Essays series. Doyle’s essays gained more exposure by being showcased at the American Scholar, Harper's Orion, Atlantic Monthly, Commonweal, and the Georgia Review. In Joyas Voladoras, Doyle shows the elegance and character in his style of writing as he gets deeper and explores the hummingbird. Almost as if it is a riddle, or an enigma. Others say he expands beyond the meaning of life, he mentions metaphors about hearts, humans, blue whales, other animals, and of course, the humming bird. Basically, Doyle informs his audience through metaphors about hearts, life, pain, love and multiple living things, but he also gives us facts about hummingbirds, as if he was praising them, like if he was giving them the love and appreciation that they don’t see to get. This is could have been done to get a message across, but not just a simple message, something with a deeper meaning, that i myself or anyone cannot exactly pinpoint. One is left to just wonder and assume,  make what they can out of it through trying to understand what Doyle was getting at or to comprehend by making it personal.

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From hummingbirds nimbly flying over flowers to humming women quietly walking through the park, Brian Doyle’s essay, “Joyas Voladoras,” brings light to the power of choice in relation to human experience and emotion. Doyle displays this power of choice through vivid descriptions of two animals: a hummingbird and a blue whale, two seemingly different organisms. However, instead of focusing on the obvious disparities of the animals, Doyle concentrates on what makes them similar, the heart. Both the hummingbird and blue whale have hearts, but they use their hearts in drastically different ways, one heart being the smallest and another being the largest in the world. Contrary to the beliefs of science and evolution, Doyle believes that humans are not so different from these two creatures, because, “no living being is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside” (3). Suddenly, the essay transforms from a National Geographic journal to a heartfelt message that connects all of the human race. Doyle dives into how the heart experiences so many emotions and ideas throughout a human life. Knowing that the heart is a delicate jewel, Doyle demonstrates that, “all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore” (3). Doyle understands that many individuals try to defend their hearts and protect them from any harm, but those hearts will eventually be hurt and injured in a

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The first piece of evidence I have to support my claim is the hummingbird. Hummingbirds are magnificent creatures have hearts the size of a pencil eraser. Their heartbeat is so fast, we can barely hear it if we put our huge ears on their chest. The can also fly more than 500 miles without resting! Even though hummingbirds are so amazing, they are also in danger. They come close to death when they rest, because of their hunger and the cold weather. Because of these dangers, they have to retreat into torpor which is also dangerous. But the hummingbirds have no choice. “If they are not soon warmed, if they do not soon find that which is sweet, their hearts grow cold and cease to be” (pg. 30 l. 23-26). The hummingbird’s heart is amazing, but very fragile.

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Brian Doyle's lyrical essay Joyas Voladoras explores both the structure and paradox of the heart and no matter the size or shape the heart is an important part of life. Doyle first speaks of the humming-bird comparing its heart to an engine, that their heart is a power house of energy. That said their fast pace live come at a great cost as Brian Doyle states that humming birds “ suffer more heart attacks and aneurysms and ruptures than any other living creature” (292). The solution would be to slow down but even the most shortest rest birds the "flying Jewels" closer to death, so what the heart need can also be its down fall. One of my favorite statements that Doyle makes is about the how a heart has " approximately two billion heart beats to spend in a life time"(292).

In the essay Joyas Voladoras written by Brian Doyle, Doyle focuses on one of the most amazing organs in a living species’ body; the heart. The heart is a muscular organ that that pumps blood and provides circulation. Without a functioning heart, one cannot live. In his essay Doyle writes, “Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise, and live to be one hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old.” People can live their lives slow and long, or fast and youthfully. Doyle refers to hummingbirds as flying jewels. Here Doyle is connecting to his audience. Human beings can connect to this quote

In paragraph one, the introduction, Doyle asks readers to imagine a hummingbird, followed by a hummingbird’s heart. This is where the author introduces logos about hummingbirds. While a hummingbird lives fast-paced live, the bird is unable to keep up, resulting in pain and shortening the bird’s life. Hummingbirds “visit a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backwards”

The mood for Joyas Voladores while living is the subject is very upbeat and elated. Brian Doyle uses hummingbirds as his subject. They represent living and dying in Doyle’s essay. “More than three hundred species of them whirring and zooming and nectaring,” is a line from the essay. It is significant because it includes words that presume life. Words like “zooming” and “whirring” are examples of that. Having the author talk to the reader is a clever thing. It makes the reader really think about what the author is saying or trying to say. Due to Brian Doyle talking to the readers, they are more likely to feel the liveliness of his words and maybe even have that feeling in themselves.

Doyle starts off by introducing the hummingbird and how small and fragile they are. When Doyle is explaining how risky it is for a hummingbird to rest and fly he states, “The price of their ambition is a life closer to death…” (Doyle). The hummingbird is always at risk of dying, they constantly fly to warm their infinitesimal hearts or they grow cold and cease to be. Doyle compares the hummingbird as an engine and how they can burn out, it is costly for them to fly, but they continue to; fast and strong. Their ambition to continue to fly and find food is strong, they fly fast to live, and the fact that they fly so fast is the reason why their hearts are so strong. Although the hummingbird has a small, fragile heart, their motivation to live and fly is strong.

In “Joyas Voldoras” by Brian Doyle, Doyle uses various concrete details such as scientific facts to illustrate and express his theme and method which is basically the power of the heart. Doyle starts by illustrating his theme through the hummingbird and highly considering its heart as a biological organ, he then literally describes Hummingbird’s lifetime in four sentences “It’s expensive to fly. You burn out. You fry the Machine. You melt the engine”. Figuratively branded a short and fast life like a “hummingbird”.

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