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This piece was published on June 12, 2012. This essay evokes human emotion  through Doyle's style of writing. He uses figurative language to emphasize his message regarding human hearts. The animal hearts represent the way a human wants to live their own lives and what speed the way they live their life, affects the time of their lifespan.

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Doyle's intended audience in this essay is the general population. He doesn't do or say anything to appeal to a specific group, he just uses a style of writing that is comprehensible to the masses. The audiences relationship to the text is the way they view his message.

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Doyle's purpose in writing this essay is to describe the vulnerability of the human heart. The reason behind it is to inform the audience that they will receive in life the same amount of effort they put fourth. He wants the audience to read this and really resonate with the message so they can appreciate the life they were given. His intention is open the eyes of the audience to see life for what it is.

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Brian Doyle is the author of the piece "Joyas Voladoras". He writes to the audience in order to share his wisdom. He does this by stating simple facts about animals which he geniously ties to a deeper meaning on different lifestyles. The slow one and the fast one.

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Intrigued: At the beginning of the passage Doyles comes off as intrigued as he writes about  hummingbirds. He speaks of their feats in "Each one visits a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backwards.(2)". He pulls the audience towards this lifestyle, showing them how much it is so fast. He does this in order to show later on what the price for living like this is. How you cannot live life high forever.
Merciless: Doyles shows his mercilessness early in the passage in small chunks by talking about the death and fragileness of the hummingbird, but in the sixth paragraph this becomes his only tone. This change can be see in him writing "We are utterly open with no one in the end". This line shift the tone of the passage to one where he writes about where no one in life will stick around and how the audience will be forever alone.

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Logos: In the quote "Each one visits a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backwards. They can fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest." Doyles states simple facts of the hummingbird in order for the reader to get a understanding of how it lives its life. This Insight later allows the audience to grasp Doyles wisdom from the text.

Pathos: In the quote "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.(6)" Doyles describes how no matter how built up the wall of the human heart is, there is always something that can tear it down in an instant. He uses the in order to it the audience's heart with a  lesson that they will never be able to keep the heart safe always.

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Doyle's reasoning for writing this essay is to exemplify to the audience to cherish and enjoy their lives. He probably went through something that affected him greatly which caused him to spread the word to others of being appreciative of life. Maybe he, himself rushed through life too fast and had to slow down to really experience what he's been given, which is why this message seems so important for him to express to the audience.

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In his essay "Joyas Voladoras" (2012), writer Brian Doyle asserts the importance of appreciating ones life. He develops this assertion by exemplifying the outcome of a hummingbirds life by its actions, describing the fragility of the human heart, and narrating that only people can control their own lives. His purpose is to emphasize the vulnerability of the the human life and heart in order to inform the audience that ones life depends on the choices they make.  Doyle establishes an intriguing relationship with the audience allowing them to absorb the information he is providing to help them live longer life's.

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Asyndeton: Doyles uses asyndeton when he writes "on frigid nights, or when they are starving, they retreat into torpor, their metabolic rate slowing to a fifteenth of their normal sleep rate, their hearts sludging nearly to a halt, barely beating, and if they are not soon warmed...(2)" - Through this use of asyndeton Doyle is able to reveal the truth of reality, showing that it can go from being untouchable to painstakingly awful the next.
Metaphor- Doyles uses a metaphor when he writes "To drive those metabolisms they have race-car hearts that eat oxygen at an eye-popping rate.(2)"- Doyles uses this metaphor to drill into the minds of the audience just how fast the hummingbirds life really is, further clueing the audience on the lifestyle of the hummingbird.
Metaphor- Doyles uses a metaphor when he writes "The biggest heart in the world is inside the blue whale. It weighs more than seven tons. It’s as big as a room. It is a room,(4)" - Doyle uses this metaphor to exaggerate the size comparison between the hummingbird and the whale. This reference is used to help the audience depict how the whale and hummingbird differ in life.  One is  a gargantuan whale, while the hummingbird is  small and feeble. One has a long lasting life, the other short.
Anaphora: Doyles uses anaphora in "not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend" to emphasize the message that in the end no one the audience lets in is still around. He does this to teach the audience the hard truth that reality is.
Asyndeton: In the quote " 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.(6)" Doyle uses asyndeton in order to create a unrelenting barrage of ideas and events that could crack the audiences cold heart in an instant. He does this in order to show the audience that no matter how they protect themselves from the forces of reality, they will not be able to defend themselves forever.

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Description: Doyles uses description in the second paragraph when he writes "Each one visits a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backwards. They can fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest. But when they rest they come close to death: on frigid nights, or when they are starving, they retreat into torpor, their metabolic rate slowing to a fifteenth of their normal sleep rate, their hearts sludging nearly to a halt, barely beating, and if they are not soon warmed, if they do not soon find that which is sweet, their hearts grow cold, and they cease to be.(2)". This description of the hummingbird sheds light on the fast but fragile life of it.
Description: "The price of their ambition is a life closer to death; they suffer more heart attacks and aneurysms and ruptures than any other living creature. It’s expensive to fly. You burn out. You fry the machine. You melt the engine. Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime.(3)". This description of the hummingbird failing shows the audience the consequences of the hummingbirds lifestyle. Although they are so quick and energetic, they cannot keep it up forever.
Description: Doules describes the emitomy of the heart in the quote. "So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one in the end—not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. Perhaps we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a constantly harrowed heart."
It reveals to the audience the downfall of themselves, that in the end there will be no one left that we opened to.