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Brian Doyle, 15 years before his death in 2017, wrote an easy called "Joyas Voladores". He died of brain cancer at the age of 60. His essay reflects what it means to live and love though out one's lifetime and the writing reflects what it means to be alive and how humans feel love.

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The purpose of this essay is to inspire others and to describe how humans love and the physical effects that come with love. He also tells of how the heart plays a role in the way humans experience emotions.

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Doyle wrote this essay for hopeless romantics and anyone who has lost joy for life or is struggling to let themselves love.

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When Doyle was writing this essay he had no idea that he would die of cancer. Despite this, he still knew the importance of life and love. Within his extend metaphors, he is able to express to the audience the complexities in life and explain what it means to be alive and how that affects oneself on the physical level.

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Brian Doyle was driven to write this essay because he was aware that many people go about life not fully experiencing life and love. The essay is an outcome of what happened when he was able to observe the world around him. He compares animals and humans in a way that makes them seem similar because of the presence of a heart. In Doyle's eyes they both can choose how to live their life in a way that benefits them and for humans they need love and are able to experience emotions with their hearts.

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Brian Doyle speaks to the reader in a direct but informative tone in the beginning. He speaks of the hummingbird in a way that informs the reader of the biological function of the birds heart but then transitions into a more heartfelt tone when he begins to talk about how humans love and how they can experience love and how that leads to the physical feelings you feel in your heart when you feel love or love someone.

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Compare/contrast- In the third paragraph of his essay, Doyle uses multiple comparisons to exaggerate and provide a visual of exactly how different a hummingbird's metabolism, muscle structure and heart size is compared to a human's.  Through this structure, he is also able to elaborate on how and why hummingbirds need to have differing body structures and functions, for example why they need more oxygen than humans even though they are much smaller in comparison. "They have more mitochondria in their heart muscles—anything to gulp more oxygen."
Description- In the second to last paragraph of Doyle's essay, he describes multiple animals, specifically how many hearts and chambers each one has. Through his use of description, he is able to reveal the one of his main ideas of his essay- although every animal may have a differing amount of hearts and chambers, they are all the same in that "they have fluid eternally in motion"
Exemplification- Doyle uses exemplification in more than one, if not all paragraphs of his essay. He mainly uses this to describe hummingbirds and whales, two of the animals with the largest and smallest hearts in the world. By using facts such as, "The biggest heart in the world is inside the blue whale. It weighs more than seven tons. It’s as big as a room." and "A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser." Doyle expresses that he is knowledgeable on these topics, and is able to back his claims with facts and examples.

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Polysyndeton- Doyle employs the use of polysyndeton in the last paragraph of his essay to emphasize the idea that though one can dream of having another to sustain them and nurture them, that is just a dream because, "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 provides a few reasons why this is, by explaining that all hearts are bruised, torn and some protected to keep others out.
Juxtaposing- Using juxtaposition to his aid, Doyle explains how hearts are delicate, countering his statement with, "all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn,".  Creating a dynamic between how easily a heart can be metaphorically injured and how strong it can be to withstand these metaphorical injuries, Doyle is able to illustrate the idea that all hearts regardless of size are susceptible to suffering.
Metaphor- Doyle uses metaphors to compare not only the size of humans in relation to hummingbirds, but also the size of a whale's heart to a room. He uses sentences like  "The biggest heart in the world is inside the blue whale... It is a room, with four chambers." to be able to accurately portray the immense and minuscule sizes of hearts in whales and hummingbirds

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Doyle appeals to the audience by describing events that most people can relate to, by giving the audience the situations of "...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...". This evokes a nostalgic emotion from the audience, anyone who reads it can in some way relate to that, he is able to appeal to their emotions in a way that feels like a memory and allows the audience to let their emotions impact the way they interpret his writing.

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In his essay written for hopeless romantics, Brian Doyle compares the hearts of several different animals to instill the idea that though hearts may vary in size and appearance, they are all affected the same by loneliness and heartache. Doyle exemplifies the differences between hearts of all animals- mainly whales and hummingbirds-, describes the appearance of animals and their hearts and compares and contrasts humans and hummingbirds. Doyle’s purpose is to encourage individuals to get the most out of life in order for them to live a more fulfilling live full of love. Doyle speaks in a informative yet heartfelt tone to urge the individuals to love and let people in despite the threat of heartbreak.