Joyas Voladoras
Joyas Voladoras is a story about the different types of hearts of different creatures. Joyas Voladoras in English means flying jewels which is a befitting title to a story about the different one of a kind creatures. In the story the author, Brian Doyle, is trying to send a message to the readers. The message he's trying to send to the readers is every animal or creature is a jewel.
In the first paragraph, Doyle talks about the hummingbird and how much of a jewel it is. "and the white men had never seen such creatures." That quote shows how the hummingbirds were considered joyas voladoras. Also in the fourth paragraph, Doyle begins to talk about the blue whale and how mysterious it really is. "There are perhaps ten thousand whales in the world, and of the largest animal who ever lived we know nearly nothing." That quote represents how valuable and how special blue whales really are. In the fifth paragraph, the story is talking about hearts of different living things. However, the point of this paragraph is to show that no matter what type of creature you are, we feel the same way regardless. "No living thing is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside." Finally, in the sixth paragraph, Doyle talks about how our heart,the human heart, contains so much in not just a lifetime but a hour or even a moment. We open up to each other, but we keep our hearts away.
The story Joyas Voladoras written by Brian Doyle is an unique story about different hearts of different animals and creatures. The moral of the story or the message was that every creature in a way is a joya voladora. Every single animal or creature that was mentioned in this story was special in its own original way.
