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The title of this narrative itself is called " joyas voladres'' which in Spanish translates to flying jewels and is a comparison of the human heart to a precious jem that is priceless.  This was written in the summer of 2012 and was a reflection of love and life based on the personal experiences of Doyle himself.  When this essay was written by Doyle his son was just recovering from heart surgeries that were caused by major conditions that he was born with. This late inspired the character of the hummingbird which was portrayed by his son and his super quick heartbeats. His experience on that matter made it quiet easy to relate to others and build a stong connection with this breathtaking essay.

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The speaker and Author of this excerpt Is  Joyas Voladoras and he has written this to convey the emotions in his past onto the future minds of this current generation. Doyle was originally born in New York City in 1956. The diverse cultural atmosphere at that time helped him right this narrative with a Spanish influenced title.. He wrote this short essay 15 years ago and since then his work has been noted and recognized worldwide for its brilliance and remarkable guidance. This message is crucial to the author because it compares the human life to other creatures to signify the preciousness of human life and  how it contrasts that of other creatures.

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The motivation and inspiration for this text was mainly due to  the fact that just like a hummingbird , The author's  son's heart is very fragile due to major heart conditions that he had been diagnosed with. He wrote this to establish the pain that he has dealt with and to symbolize how life is very unique and conflicting. The events after his surgery persuaded Doyle to write about his experiences and how they have changed his perspective on life and happiness.  The author wrote this emotional essay to relate to those who have have suffered the use of love so much like the hummingbird that their heart is now unstable and deprived of love all together. also, Doyle gives a complete opposite analogy to a different animal like a whale and how it symbolizes  different people have unique ways that they treasure and progress through life.

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The audience for are those that are intrigued on the mysterious of the heart and how it functions in different organisms and how they differ to that of humans. Also , this can be targeted to  those who are lost or too indulged in love that their heart has an imbalance of compassionate emotions. We know this by the way Doyle describes the different creatures and how they symbolize different individuals and their personalities which range from soft spoken and loving like the hummingbird , to animals like the reptiles he describes that signify those who are more enclosed and have less space for love in their hearts. The aspect of these polar opposite creatures can connect to every individual and the specific characteristic that they feel towards the heart.

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The main purpose of this short essay written by Doyle is to express the differences of the human heart to those of animals to contrast how our lives are different based on how much emotion and love we show. He speaks of  these contradictories to express to  the reader on how they should cherish the short time that they have on this planet and to let both happiness and sadness play an equal role on how they should shape the future they hope to seek. Doyle hopes that from reading this short essay the reader changes the perception of life that they evaluate on their choices about compassion.

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Doyle writes in an ambivalent tone through the first 6 paragraphs in order to express his mixed feelings towards the divide between the physical and emotional capabilities of a heart. He states that "every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime," which allows the audience to understand the complexity of his thought towards all living creatures, and their limited time. His tone later shifts to be hopeless, as he expresses his feelings of disdain towards the inevitable end of life. This shift happens in paragraph 6, as he states "we open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart." By insinuating that we all pass with so little ability to allow others into our hearts, Doyle is able to accurately exprerss his feelings of disdain and hopelessness to the audience.

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The author organizes the text with description, starting by opening with the curiosities of hummingbirds, and gradually adding context and comparing/contrasting the qualities of the hearts of birds and whales. Lastly, Doyle uses cause/effect to show how one animal exhausting their heartbeats would lead to their death in just 2 years, whereas an animal conserving energy would have the ability to live to 200.

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Doyle uses figurative language in  order to further drill in his points. For example, his use of anaphora when stating  "You burn out. You fry the machine. You melt the engine" emphasizes the idea of time being finite, and the inevitable end to all functioning things/life-forms.  Additionally, his use of simile when stating "The valves are as big as the swinging doors in a saloon." emphasizes the vastness of these organisms and the seemingly impossible ability to comprehend how such a large organism is also facing an  impending death. On top of that, his use of polysendeton when stating " 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" emphasizes the inability to control the emotional aspect of the human heart's capabilities. No matter how many walls you put up, they can easily be broken down. By using asyndeton when stating " 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," Doyle is able to illustrate and evoke differing emotions that exist coherently, and further put emphasis on the extraordinary potential of the heart. Lastly, his use of epistrophe when stating "Mammals and birds have hearts with four chambers. Reptiles and turtles have hearts with three chambers. Fish have hearts with two chambers. Insects and mollusks have hearts with one chamber." emphasizes the idea that even though all living creatures are vastly different, it's in human nature to use what's provided in order to love. Because time on Earth is limited, the way one spend's their life is both the most important thing, and in the grand scheme of things virtually pointless.

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Doyle attempts to apeal to his audience's necessity for facts by using the ages that the animals he spoke about can live to. By saying, " 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," Doyle is able to appear slightly more knowledgable which makes him more trustworthy to his audience. In addition, he resonate's with his audience's desire for security by toying with those feelings. He states, "not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend," referencing his previous statement about how one ultimately dies alone.

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The author, Brian Doyle, in his essay, "Joyas Voladoras" (2012), argues that a species quality of life is directly correlated with their time spent on Earth. He supports his arguement by exemplifying a species of hummingbird that generally has a lifespan of 2 years, and contrasting it with tortoise, who could live to be 200 years old. Doyle's purpose is to instill a level of acceptance in order to inspire readers to live their lives with the knowledge that their time is limited. He establishes an ambivalent tone for the readers that can relate to his sense of dread about the inevitable, but that experience conflicting feelings due to their awareness that they might as well live for the moment.