Brian Doyle's 'Joyas Voladoras'

In "Joyas Voladoras," Brian Doyle suggests that hummingbirds, which represents pupils, need to be cared and watched over because they are fragile . Brian Doyle has a child with a heart problem, and to him, his child is the most precious jewel. Sense he knows his son’s heart can stop beating any second, Brain is constantly worrying about him. Because of this, Brian Doyle represents his son as a hummingbird.
In "Joyas Voladoras, "it is stated," Joyas Voladoras, flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas Called them, and the white men had never seen such creatures". To Brian, when he had his son, he was able to experience something so beautiful that he didn't even know existed. But when he learned that his son had a heart problem, Brian realized how fragile youngsters were. The young ones are always lively and full of energy and animated, however, they can be so easily hurt. In "Joyas Voladoras," " They can fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest. But when they rest they come close to death", " their hearts slugging nearly to a halt, barely beating, and if they are not soon warmed, if they do not find that which is sweet, their hearts grow cold, and they cease to be."(Brian Doyle). Brian wants to remind everyone that …show more content…
It weighs more than seven tons/This house of a heart drives a creature a hundred feet long./the animals with the largest hearts in the world generally travel in pair”(Brian Doyle). The blue whales which Brain talked about represents adults. Adults with big, strong hearts and big strong bodies don’t die as easily as small hummingbirds, which represents youngsters. Adults generally travel in pairs, just like blue whales, so when one is in need, the other can help. Brian further shows that whales are superior than hummingbirds by giving the fact “There are perhaps ten thousand blue whales in the world, living in every ocean on the