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Doyle wrote Joyas Voladores in June of 2012, and published it in the Scholar. He was in his mid fifties at the time of writing it, and would pass 5 years later.

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Brian Doyle was an American author who values living in the present, and to make the most of what one can. The author presents themself as someone who has extensive knowledge of life in many beings, and how they live it.

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It could be that as Doyle grew older and saw and experienced more and more as his life went on, the purpose of life became more relevant to him, and that was to treasure every moment. Only 5 years after writing the short story, he would pass, knowing and getting to share his take on life.

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The audience Doyle was most likely aiming to catch the attention of are those who don't respect life, their own and others, as they don't value or cherish it all, and don't realize how short it can be, and that they need to learn to make the most of it.

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Doyle was hoping to get audience to realize that even though one can build walls around one's heart, they will not truely be living. Doyle's reason behind writing this piece is to explain to the audience that in order to live, they must let go of their worries and fears. Doyle wants the audience to consider his words and let go of their fears so they can start making the most of their life. Doyle's intention is to help the audience live life to the fullest.

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Doyle uses the beginning of the passage to convey a tone of interest, and peace to make it seem that nature is the same as us, in that they are just trying to survive and get by. In, "A hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird. Joyas voladoras, flying jewels" Doyle is describing what the hummingbird is like, and how they live, and he then goes on to describe similar things about blue whales. He proceeds to shifts the tone to morbid, realistic, and relatable, as it describes the negatives that life can hold, and also human experiences that we can relate to in life. In "a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die," shows how life still has its downsides, but in "the brush of your mother’s papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair, the memory of your father’s voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children," it lists experiences that some people can relate to from their lives.

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Doyle uses a lot of Description & and Explanation as he goes on to detail specific imagery in things like the appearance of a hummingbird and its heart, to what its heart is like, and what it has to do to survive. He also uses the same type of organization when describing the size of a blue whale and its massive heat, to then explaining what it does to accommodate for its large size, and what life must be like for them below the sea.

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Doyle uses the metaphor "We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart," comparing one's heart to a house emphasizing how even though one can let someone in, one will still be the only person in their heart. Doyle's use of the metaphor "This house of a heart drives a creature a hundred feet long." compares the heart of a blue whale to a house, emphasizing  how every living being has a heart, every living being is just living their life, and the heart is the center of their life. Doyle's use of the asyndeton "You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman’s second glance, a child’s apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words I have something to tell you, a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother’s papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair, the memory of your father’s voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children." gives multiple examples of how one person's heart can be exposed and make that person start to actually live their life. Doyle's use of the simile "You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old." emphasizes

how one can either have a great life they love and that only felt like a second, or one can have a life they didn't live and won't be happy looking back on. Doyle's use of the asyndeton "We are utterly open with no one in the end—not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend." emphasizes that at the end of one's life, even though their loved ones might be there, they are still alone, they are the only one in their heart, they are the only one that lived with that heart.

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Doyle uses Pathos to emotionally appeal to the audience, as some of what he describes, people can relate to, and goes on to show that some creatures can do what seems like alot to them, but then their life is cut short to us, which makes readers rethink human experiences, which evokes emotion.

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Doyle in his short essay speaks to those who don't appreciate life enough, and aren't respecting it as they should. Doyle describes the anatomy of some animals, and how they live and survive to accommodate for the structure of their insides. His purpose is to convince his target audience to live life to the fullest, and to know that all experiences one has in life are what define them, whether they are positive or negative. Doyle speaks in a realistic yet peaceful tone to establish the fact that no being's life is perfect, but they still live it in their own way.