Could you imagine that the “heart” of either human or animals is very different in sizes and even in the durability? If we think for a few seconds how heart works in some of the small animals, we will be surprised as much as if we think deeply about how heart can be the most significant thing to be alive. In the article “Joyas Volardores,” Brian Doyle illustrates the significant role of the heart of any living creatures. The article provides very spectacular brief of the idea that heart is the simplest thing that can do lots of things in everyday life. Brian Doyle focuses on the difference of the heart for each of hummingbirds, whales and humans and how three of those are having different living. 

Brian Doyle begins with the hummingbirds and uses lots of sentences that show how simple they are. He said, “A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser,” and that means their hearts are very small whenever we want to compare it with their body. However, Doyle words were so sophisticated when he described the humming birds and their tiny heart which was very good enough to make the reader aware of their hearts. Even though he illustrated the size, but he did show us that their hearts are full of strength by giving great examples. He used lots of words that I had to look up for their meaning such as ‘infinitesimal’ which is an adjective word when he was trying to describe the chests. He said a sentence that was very catchy “A hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird,” allows the reader to know that heart is really important that makes up a hummingbirds and it is very important as well for living as creature’s life. 

The blue whale is totally different from the humming birds. Their heart is like a big house and Brian Doyle gave us a very interesting description of the size. He said, their heart is a room and a child could walk in there as well, which allow us as readers to know that the heart can be imagined. Some of the sentences were exaggerated such as “It is waaaaay bigger than your car,” Doyle said. However, that was enough to know about the size because I felt that he want make commercial for their heart. His words were totally good enough to know about the whales, but it was not that interesting like what I read about the hummingbirds. The reason that I felt boring at this part because he just focus on the size of the heart by giving different imagination and goes to one meaning. Starting with two paragraphs about the hummingbirds and having useful details about them was better to me as a reader than reading one paragraph and has one meaning. 

Last paragraph was the most difficult to understand and the style was not straightforward.

He started to talk about how we were thinking when we are child and so on when we get older. It was very emotional and how heart when it’s broken can be. The rhythm was getting sad as I read and I felt that I did not want the passage to end. The language he used was very fabulous and this is how communicating has to be when we want to express our feelings. Doyle did a good job with the last paragraph because feelings sometimes can be hard to express. Sometimes we get confused as we read a message because the language changed to be more what we are feeling. For example, whenever we lose someone is very kind; there will be something inside our heart that we hardly can deliver the feelings by words. Moreover, someone who has been in love for a little while and then just broke up the relationship, there would be that language that is very hard to express and even difficult to understand because it is just a feeling. Brian Doyle used some words that show the sadness and the suffering such as injured without bleeding, weak and shaky and delicate and breakable. Therefore, all that sad words allow the reader to live the moment for real. 

Brian Doyle is a really sophisticated writer and can control our emotion from at the beginning of the passage to the end. It is one of the most readings I have enjoyed because he ends the passage by showing how fragile the heart can be. The idea of the weak heart when there is no way to explain the feeling and that is really interesting because this ending is to be controversial to the very beginning passage, which was about the power of the heart and can do lots of things for the humming birds and how large is the heart for the whales.
