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Joyas Voladoras was an essay written on June 12, 2012 and was published with the scholar. He writes this essay with the knowledge of the world around him. Brian Doyle's son was born with three out of four chambers in his heart. Because Doyle understands the value of the heart in one's life, he writes Joyas Voladoras. In the world today with coronavirus, society has gotten a better understanding of how well their lives were before they had to quarantine. For example, kids would wish for school to be cancelled but now they are wishing for it to be open.

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The speaker of Joyas Voladoras is Brian Doyle. He explored the spirits of Oregon's small towns and the wonders of the world. He described himself as a "story catcher". The topics he wrote about include spirituality, family, nature, place, wine, and the human heart. His love for nature and animals as well as his past ties to Catholicism impacted his point of view in Joyas Voladoras.

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Doyle wrote this essay because of his observations of the world around him and seeing society not appreciate the world around them as well as taking their lives for granted. He also wrote this because of a personal experience, his son, who was only born with 3 out of the 4 heart chambers. Seeing this inspired Doyle to write Joyas Voladoras in order to motivate society to live life to the fullest and not take anything for granted.

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Brian Doyle addresses an audience of the general population and young adults. This article is addressed mainly to the general population because Doyle wants his essay to make society value life itself. More specifically it is addressed to young adults because Doyle wants them to appreciate every moment when they are young so they do not regret anything later in life. The audience has a love/hate relationship with the subject of the text because society all knows it is important to cherish the life they are given as it can be taken away at any minute. However, people in society often get so busy they forget to appreciate time and later regret it.

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Brian Doyle's purpose of writing Joyas Voladoras is to emphasize the significance of  a beating heart and life itself.  He compares multiple hearts in different organisms in order to illustrate the human experience and how the heart is a measurement of life. Brian Doyle wants his readers to experience human life through written words.

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Brian Doyle speaks to his audience in an informative yet affectionate tone to establish the necessity of life itself. Doyle uses an informative tone in the beginning of his essay when stating facts about the hummingbird, "A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser." He uses  an informative tone in order to establish his credibility with the audience. Doyle uses an informative tone in his first five paragraphs  then he shifts his tone to affectionate in the last paragraph when talking about life, "So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. " Doyle uses an affectionate tone in order to evoke gratitude and appreciation out of the reader. Doyle starts out with an informative tone in order to give the readers facts and background about the heart and then shifts to affectionate to evoke emotion out of the reader and motivate them to live in the moment.

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Doyle uses narration in the beginning of his essay to tell the history of the hummingbird, "Joyas voladoras, flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them,"Doyle also uses comparing and contrasting in  his essay when stating the difference of each heart in different living organisms' hearts, "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." Lastly Doyle uses description to describe the hummingbirds life, "Each one visits a thousand flowers a day." Doyle uses description in order for us to get the full understanding of the hummingbirds life.

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Symbolism- Doyle uses the hummingbird as a symbol of appreciation for life, joy, and love in order to illustrate how humans should constantly value their life. Moreover, Doyle stresses how the hummingbird lives its  life, demonstrating that the heart is a significant part of life, and it should be valued.  "A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird".

Metaphor- The author compares the heartbeats of the tortoise and the hummingbird in order to emphasize that there are many different ways to live life as well as to highlight that the heart itself has great significance in life. "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 two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old." This quote conveys the idea that although there are multiple ways to spend the heartbeats given to a person in their lifetime, one will be alone once those heartbeats are over, portraying that the heart is the most valued part of one's life.

Imagery- Doyle uses imagery throughout the piece of literature in order to assist the audience in vividly seeing the great importance of the heart in life within many different living organisms. He conveys his ideas and message through imagery, making his audience see what he sees. Through imagery, Doyle is able to signify the heart within a life, and is able to make the reader acknowledge that although the heart is not the largest in size, it determines most of what does and what does not occur in one's life. "A child could walk around in it, head high, bending only to step through the valves". This clear description and vivid depiction of how a child could walk through the heart of a blue whale highlights how although even the biggest heart in the world is not significant in size, the heart determines a great deal of a person's life and it should be appreciated, as one's heartbeat is not eternal.

Anaphora- Doyle uses the repetition of "A hummingbird's heart" in the beginning of his essay in order to highlight and accentuate how much of the hummingbird its heart makes up. In turn, this adds to Doyle's purpose of attempting to prove how much of one's life their heart makes up. Because of this repeated phrase, Doyle is able to emphasize how the hummingbird values its life, although short lived, and that humans should do the same. "A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird."

Simile- The author compares the valves of a blue whale's heart to the doors of a saloon. This is to portray their constant function, swinging open and close, constantly letting people in and out, just as how a heart constantly lets blood in and out in order to let organisms live. Doyle uses this comparison to highlight how the valves of the heart are constantly at work, keeping the blue whale alive. "The valves are as big as the swinging doors in a saloon".

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Doyle uses all three appeals when writing his essay Joyas Voladoras. He uses logos when comparing the size of the different organism's heart. For example he uses logos to exemplify the size of the whale heart which "weighs more than seven tons." He uses this technique to provide us with a measurement so we can fully understand the difference of the sizes of hearts. In his article he uses ethos to inform the readers about the history of the hummingbird when describing "Joyas Voladoras,  flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them." This background information illustrates to Doyle's credibility about the topic itself.  Doyle also uses pathos in his essay, "We are utterly open with no one in the end—not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend" to evoke the emotion of loneliness. Using pathos Doyle emphasizes that no matter what society does during their life society will be alone in the end.

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In his 2012 essay, "Joyas Voladoras", Brian Doyle asserts that the heart is the most significant part of the human experience, and that everyone in society should value their life. Doyle supports his illustration through comparing and contrasting the hearts of multiple living organisms, including the hummingbird, blue whales, and tortoises, exemplifying the magnitude of the beating heart and how one should value their life, as well as describing the hummingbird and its life, emphasizing how the hummingbird's short lived life is lived with no regret. His purpose is to highlight the significance and value of the heart in one's life as well as making his audience experience human life through written words in order to ensure that humans do not live their lives without acknowledging the value of life and both the positive and negative aspects of life. Doyle establishes a regretful and melancholy tone towards his past experiences, but also speaks in an affectionate tone as he speaks about the heart and all the emotions it gives off to the general population as well as society as a whole.