
Imagine the size of a pencil eraser, then compare it to the vital organ that all creatures need to live. Then imagine a house and make that same comparison. A hummingbird, a spectacular animal, has a heart the size of a pencil eraser that beats ten times per second. A blue whale has a four chambered heart like all mammals but, their hearts are so big a child can stand straight up and walk around in it. In Doyle’ “Joyas Volardores”, he tells about how life can seem so great at times but you never know when it can take a turn for the worst. In his writing Doyle uses a style that smoothly steals the reader’s attention while going through the journey of life of different creatures. While using these techniques Doyle is proving that his style is relatable and keeps the reader interested. Doyle’s main point of this essay is about life and by using figurative language it better gets his theme across the reader.

In the first paragraph Doyle starts with a hummingbird and how is heart is tiny but the bird itself has so much strength. He continues with this for a while. By Doyle providing this information about hummingbirds as a reader you almost begin to praise and become more interested about the small animal. He does this by providing facts like “Each one visits a thousand flowers a day.” and “They can fly backwards”. Just by reading this info its shocking, imaging trying to pick a thousand flowers let alone collect nectar from them. Then after going on a little more things take a turn for the worst. He then goes from the happy and glorifying tone to the sad and depressed tone. He says “But when they rest they come close to death:”. With that being said the entire mood of the text shift dramatically. He built up these magnificent birds just for them die off quickly.

Another topic of “Joyas Volardores” was the blue whale. With this animal Doyle somewhat made the same approach. He starts by talking about how massive the heart of the blue whale is by saying “A child could walk around it, head high, bending only to step through the valves”. By making this statement Doyle paints the picture in the reader’s head of the gigantic heart. A heart you can walk inside of without bending down is unbelievable. Again Doyle make things seem like there aren’t any problems to worry about. However, another shift is made with “…Next to nothing is known of the mating habits, travel patterns, diet, social life, language, social structure, diseases, spirituality, wars, stories, despairs and arts of the blue whale”. By stating this Doyle again shifts the mood is the essay. The mood is shift because the blue whale was spoke about greatly just because the size of the heart and then after all those facts were provided there was nothing more to talk about. For nothing else to be know about the life of a blue besides the size of its heart shows that in life there are things that you would only have to live through to actually know about some situations.

In the final paragraph Doyle explains how the heart holds so much in a lifespan and continues to break it down into smaller sections. With his concluding paragraph this where he really brings all his ideas together for how life is not always what it seems. He talks about how valuable the heart is and how it can take so much.

In this essay Doyle using his writing style to his advantage. He takes advantage of his writing style to make his point of life is not always seems to be. He uses anaphora throughout the entire essay. By doing this he makes sure the reader does not just let some things pass their mind. Doyle also uses some extended sentences and includes words that are not necessary for his sentence structure. For example, he says “Hummingbirds, like all flying birds but more so, have incredible enormous immense ferocious metabolism”. In this sentence he using more describing words than needed but by using them he exaggerates how great the metabolism of the hummingbird is.

Therefore, Doyle gets his point across smoothly. He illustrates how life can be great and amazing but any minute anything could go wrong. He basically describes how everything in your life could be going right but could easily go left as well. In Doyle’s “Joyas Volardores”, he tells about how life can seem so marvelous but you never know when it can end. Doyle’s main point is that life is never what it seems. Doyle makes his argument by first making the life of a hummingbird seem elegant and carefree but takes a crooked twist and shows the ugly side too. He also does the same thing with the blue whale by glorifying its size and saying that’s really one of the only things that’s known about the giant mammals.