Brian Doyle is a Canadian writer who was born in August 12, 1935, in Ottawa, Canada. Some of his writings and stories have been shown as movies and plays. He got some awards for some of his writings (Wikipedia). One fact about his writings is that many of his writings and stories are from his experiences throughout his life in Ottawa. One of his texts is Joyas Volardores, and it is about describing hummingbirds. He used hummingbirds because his city, Ottawa, has hundreds of species of hummingbird. Also, Ottawa’s residents used to put water for hummingbirds to drink and they still have this habit until now. 

At the first paragraph, when Doyle start describing a hummingbird, how many time does this bird’s heart beats, the size of his heart, why is it flying, the number of species of hummingbird, I first thought about how deep does Doyle thought and focused on this bird. Then after more focusing on the paragraph, I saw that he provided information about hummingbird that cannot know without searching more about this bird. Then my brain asked why did Brian described this bird in depth, and then answered that Brian should love this bird a lot. After a while of thinking in his words, I recognized that Brian mentioned the word “heart” a lot of times. I thought why did he focused on this small part of the hummingbird’s whole body!! Then I realized that he might be feeling in love with someone he knows, might be a girl he met and liked. After rereading the sentence “hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas, nowhere else in the universe,” I kind of sure of my realizing about he loves someone is true because of his saying of that this bird came only into Americas and nowhere else in the universe. Another prove to my realizing is when Brian said “flying jewels”, because I think nobody describe something or someone as jewels without a very big value of that thing, and also I think that there is nobody is going to provide these much descriptions of something that has no big value for him or her. After all of the above, I got to know that this text is about an experience that the writer, Brian, is experiencing it. But it’s not presented directly to us, readers. And it takes us to think deeply to get the right meaning of it. Word at this paragraph were successfully chosen. They are simple, clear, and very understandable. The theme here is between hope and love theme which make the readers feel excited to read more. So Brian hooked readers on this beginning paragraph by making it ambiguous.

Moving to the second paragraph, the content is more complicated, confusing, and unclear to me. Maybe because of my understanding for the meaning of the first paragraph was wrong. Ideas are very complex. Words are very tough and dark in meaning which made me feel like there is a death mood. The theme is very strong. The details of the death provide me a feeling of a war after cool days that has comfortable feeling. the paragraph starts with some very short sentences. Then, it shifts totally to a very long sentences. It has nine lines sentence that has a series of a complex words make the reader feel lost. And this lead to make the meaning ambiguous.

Doyle starts describing hummingbirds’ life. When I read the word “war” at the begging in “Their hearts are stripped to the skin for the war against gravity and inertia,” I was happy and felt that I’m at the right place of understanding the second paragraph. But after focusing on the meaning I realized that the word “war” here is different than what I meant before. So the third paragraph drove me away of what I analyzed in the previous paragraphs. Brian is trying to show how the life of hummingbirds are hard and tough by pointing its life’s details. While I’m analyzing this paragraph, I felt like hummingbirds’ life is very similar to human life. They are both about fighting for a good life in future until dying. 

After reading the first three paragraphs, I see that Brian use a lot of adjectives that helps the reader to understand the meaning of the text and to be useful. Also they give more information comparing with writing only the major word and keeping it naked. Moreover, adjectives give the reader a comfortable feeling when he/she reads it because one appropriate adjective before a word might be worth a long bad described paragraph. In addition, Doyle puts a lot of details and describe every single thing briefly. Those details and descriptions including the adjectives he used give the reader a big place for some wild imaginations. Also, they give the reader a place to connect what he reads and his real life. Even the imaginations the reader thought of are from his old experiences and could be something from between the very old past and this time present. 
