# data[].attributes.body
This piece was published by Brian Doyle on June 12th 2012. He chose to write this essay after realizing the importance of treasuring what has been given to him, and wanting to inspire others to do the same.

# data[].attributes.body
The speaker is Brian Doyle a writer whose short stories in Portland Magazine have won multiple awards. The reader can easily identify his love and astonishment for the outside world from his impactful descriptions of animals and value of each life. Doyles optimistic, but realistic perspective on life influences the way his writing is perceived. The reader can recognize the passion Doyle has for the experiences and lessons that come with life.

# data[].attributes.body
Doyle wrote this inspiring short essay in light of his son being born with out 3 out of 4 heart valves. As he was told this information, he realized the importance of fully experiencing your life. Each life, even his, has its ups and downs and one never knows what will happen next. He felt it was important to speak on the topic of fully cherishing life because he was facing something completely unexpected, and as he grew with his son, it became clear to him that people have the decision on how they want to spend their lives and what they want to do, but ultimately, the decisions that one chooses is not important, but the growing and learning experiences that actually make life impactful and memorable are important.

# data[].attributes.body
Doyle writes for an audience who doesn't appreciate life as much as one should, and are afraid to take life-changing risks. He wants the reader to embrace their past experiences and how those experiences have shaped the reader into the person they are today. He writes for people who lack appreciation for their life and to help them realize that although every person is different, each human needs to take advantage of the situations they are put in, whether good or bad, and if they don't, their lives will continue to lack excitement. We know Doyle is longing to reach people who live life in a safe way due to his example of the humming bird doing anything to prosper and have more oxygen. he was the reader to recognize that although the humming bird is much more likely to die than a human, they do everything in their power for more food and oxygen to live a life.

# data[].attributes.body
Doyle is hoping to influence the reader to analyze their past choices and impact of them in order to convey a sense of reality. He aspires to impart the different ways people live their lives but all in all help the audience reflect on how past experiences shape ones perspective. He feels that emphasizing the unexpected turns that life takes should inspire the audience to always advantage of life and
embrace both the hardships and happy times. He wishes for the audience to know that no matter how ones life is lived; slow or fast, they should value past experiences, because as one grows and experiences trauma such as heartbreak, it shapes them to a more alert but delicate person, afraid of what could happen in a split second, emphasizing the importance of always having positive outlook on life.

# data[].attributes.body
Doyle's tone can be identified through words such as "...each the most amazing thing you have never seen," emphasizing a passionate tone in order to establish the importance of appreciating small, but important elements of life that create the beautiful world. He wishes for the audience to understand that life is short and full of many opportunities that should not be overlooked, but instead taken advantage of. As the short essay then continues, Doyle's tone changes around the last paragraph when he uses words "You can brick up your heart as stout...as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant," expressing a more pragmatically regretful tone. He begins to share the realities of life that he has experienced and uses them to establish his sense of regret for what opportunities he wished he took advantage of. He then proceeds to end the essay by once again emphasizing the importance of taking full life and valuing what one receives.

# data[].attributes.body
-exemplification: exemplifies the hectic life of the hummingbird
-contrasts: the two ways humans can take advantage of their short lives
-describes: in the end, everyone is alone in discovering their destiny

# data[].attributes.headline
Features (devices - figurative & syntactical, word choice, sentence structure)

# data[].attributes.subject
Features (devices - figurative & syntactical, word choice, sentence structure)

# data[].attributes.body
-Metaphor "You burn out. You fry the machine. You melt the engine." By comparing the small but mighty heart of a hummingbird to an engine, Doyle illustrates one of the main points of the text of how a heart is worn out throughout the years of living and experience. He wishes to emphasize the importance of cherishing what little time one has on this earth by using this metaphor. The use of this metaphor comparing the hummingbird's heart to a burnt out engine helps the audience understand that their lifestyles can either be slow or fast paced, but eventually in the end, they will either regret what they have done, or rejoice in the choices they took.

-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." By comparing  animals who live completely differently,  Doyle is presenting two completely different ways to live so that the audience can compare themselves to the animals and identify which one they are most similar to in means of the way they are living. This metaphor instills a sense of reality in the audience and helps them understand that it doesn't matter how one lives life, as long as they are reaching their full potential.

-Word Choice "...the animals with the largest hearts in the world generally travel in pairs, and their penetrating moaning cries, their piercing yearning tongue, can be heard underwater for miles and miles..."  These powerful words describing how whales prefer to travel and be with a partner at all times, demonstrate how all living creatures, even animals, need another person to share their experiences with, but even if a person has someone to share life with, it doesn't mean that their life is fully complete. One ultimately always experiences life at levels, alone on the inside, and longs for the satisfaction for having a perfect life with no regrets.

-Word Choice "Unicellular bacteria have no hearts at all; but even they have fluid eternally in motion, washing from one side of the cell to the other, swirling and whirling. No living being is without interior liquid motion." This thought provoking sentence helps the reader think about not only humans, but how specimen as small as bacteria all have inner spirituality and connection to life. Each organism has personal experiences which play a huge role in ones character development. People learn from their past and their pasts is what ultimately helps them make instinctive future decisions.

-Polysyndeton "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..." Doyle repetitively uses the word "and" in order to place emphasis on the basic nature of a human being. He wishes for the audience to understand that no matter how strong a front someone puts up, it will gradually come down with trust and time. Over time as that trust is lost, humans will put back up that strong barrier to try and protect their emotions, but it will eventually come back down again. He tries to convey how life will continue to go on, but the real obstacle is living it in a way that won't be regretted,.

# data[].attributes.body
-"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."
Doyle uses a logical appeal by using statics and facts about the hummingbird in order to exemplify how close the hummingbird comes to death when doing a basic function and slowing down to rest, yet they continue to get u and persevere and find food that will help them grow and continue to experience their short, but beautiful lives.

-"We are utterly open with no one in the end—not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend." Doyle tries to emotionally touch the audience by using information they could personally relate to in order to develop a sense of reality among the audience. He longs for the audience to understand that each human may have a family that they share their lives with, but in the end, they are emotionally and mentally experiencing life alone, and should live a life with an unrepentant personal journey.

- "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." Doyle proves his credibility by using realistic and statistical approach as soon as the short essay begins. This way, he assures the audience that he is knowledgeable and not only well informed, but well experienced when talking about the experience of life in order to gain the audiences trust and personally connect to them.

# data[].attributes.body
In Brian Doyle's 2012 short essay, Joyas Voladores, he asserts the importance of valuing the opportunities and advantages of life. Doyle exemplifies the hectic life a hummingbird lives in order to survive and thrive, contrasts the way humans should take advantage of their short lives just as animals do, and describes how at the end of one's life, each person is alone in finding their destiny and value of life. His purpose is to influence the unmotivated readers to take advantage of the opportunities they have in order to live a life with an unapologetic outlook. Doyle writes in a pragmatic, yet passionate tone for people who lack motivation and appreciation for daily tasks to establish the high value and potential of one's short existence.