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Joyas Voladoras was published by the American Scholar in 2004. A large portion of the text was most likely influenced by Doyle's love for all things Avian contributing to the metaphor of the hummingbirds sporadic way of life. The text was also part of a book about hearts called The Wet Engine.

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The writer of Joyas Voladoras is Brian Doyle.  Brian Doyle was an award winning author from New York and went to the University of Notre Dame.  Brian Doyle lived in Oregon and was known for his essays that brought Oregon people and land to life.  Brian Doyle died on May 27, 2017, in Lake Oswego, Oregon after a months-long battle with cancer.  Brian Doyle had a love for nature and Joyas Voladoras was not his only work involving nature.  Throughout the text it is obvious that Brian Doyle is passionate for nature which enhances the meaning of his message.

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Brian Doyle was constructing  a book about the ways and patterns of  heart (perhaps due to the fact that his son was born missing a chamber in the heart) when he wrote this pseudo allusion excerpt about the different ways to live life.

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Doyle's essay truly is for the general populace with his writing style being effective in both logistical thinkers and more emotionally driven people with the metaphors about love and the human hearts reluctance to be vulnerable due to fear of being hurt yet unable to effectively barricade itself able to invoke an emotional response from the most resilient of readers.

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Brian Doyle is commenting on the way Humans live and love, his intentions are to convey human emotion, invoke a emotional response in the audience, and convince  them that life is precious and to value every moment from the most distraught to the most joyful.

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Throughout the essay Doyle shifts tones consistently transitioning from a very factual tone almost as if he is writing an informational text on hummingbirds to a tone that is very regretful when he speaks about the heart and emotions it gives.  It makes him seem like he has been hurt  multiple times and that he knows what it is like to be sad. The tone shifts again in the 4th paragraph with the examples of different hearts speaking about the vastness of the whale in a calm and extensive tone as apposed to the quick and rapid feel of the hummingbird "It is a room, with four chambers. A child could walk around it, head high, bending only to step through the valves. The valves are as big as the swinging doors in a saloon. This house of a heart drives a creature a hundred feet long." The tone shifts for a final time in the last paragraph to a thoughtful tone where he speaks with the importance of every moment in life with words like perhaps and possibly heading the change in tone. "So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment." Doyle is Advising the reader on how life should be lived and things to avoid such as bricking up the emotions of the heart.

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One organizational pattern that Doyle uses throughout the passages is description.  Doyle uses description in the beginning when talking about the humming bird.  Using description when talking about the hummingbird helps to enhance the meaning that the hummingbird brings to the passage.

The second organizational pattern used is compare and contrast.  Doyle uses compare and contrast when talking about the number of valves in the heart of different animals.  Doyle used compare and contrast to demonstrate how no matter how many chamber you have or if you have a heart that you still have the interior liquid motion.

The third organizational pattern that Doyle uses is cause and effect. Doyle uses cause and effect when describing the humming bird visiting a thousand flowers a day. Doyle uses cause and effect to properly demonstrate how external forces can have an impact on ones heart. Doyle demonstrates that by explaining how cold nights can almost kill a hummingbird.

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"The valves are as big as the swinging doors in a saloon"
Simile- The Simile emphasizes the vastness of the whale which enhances the idea of the incredible power of the heart.

"They have race car hearts that eat oxygen"
Metaphor- This metaphor enhances the speed and rapid power that the heart has which emphasises the idea that the heart is an exceptional organ.

"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."
Simile- The simile represents the two different extremes about life that Doyle is proposing either being fast paced but burning out quickly or slowly living an uneventful life.

We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart.
metaphor- This simile enhances the idea that the human heart does not let others in for fear of being hurt but rather opens windows of vulnerability as a defense mechanism.

"this house of hearts drives a creature a hundred feet long"
hyperbole-  This hyperbole enhances the idea that any sized creature can be lead on its own path by its heart. Its heart as even a creature as large as a whale can be propelled and pushed by the organ.

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Doyle expertly invokes an emotional response in the audience with the use of rhetoric, pathetic appeals, and the pain of love all contributing to the conclusion that the heart is more than just an organ. "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." Doyle utilizes logic and statistics to enhance the hummingbird metaphor stating “hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second” and “their hearts hammering faster than we could clearly hear if we pressed our elephantine ears to their infinitesimal chests” which enhances the idea of just how fast and sporadic the hummingbird lifestyle and heart is.

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In Brian Doyle's excerpt Joyas Voladaras Doyle asserts that there are several healthy ways to live life and that it is important to find a balanced lifestyle. Doyle supports his assertion by comparing the lifestyles of the hummingbird and tortoise advocating for an inbetween of both extremes with  advice about the heart pertaining to wherever on the spectrum one may fall.
The authors purpose is to point out that there is not simply one defined path in life that one must take but rather an influx of paths on a spectrum in order to enlighten one on the options for the optimal enjoyable lifestyle for oneself. The author writes in an emotional tone for everyday people who seek a more enjoyable life and do not know how to go about achieving a more Jovial style.