...Joyas Voladoras is a short essay by Brian Doyle. Brian Doyle is a Canadian writer who writes about his experience growing up in Ottawa and vicinity. The short essay “Joyas Voladoras”, is about how people or creatures can feel pain in their hearts. In “Joyas Voladoras” Brian Doyle portrays that even though you are big or small everyone can feel pain. In “Joyas Voladoras” the blue whales represents how the largest creatures can also feels pain. Doyle is describing how many blue whales there are but he reveals how little everyone knows about them. He states, “But we know this: the animals with the largest hearts in the world generally travel in pairs, and their penetrating moaning cries, their piercing yearning tongue, can be heard underwater...
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...I feel like in joyas voladoras stated multiple metaphor in the passage. One of my favorites was when he was explaining how mammals and birds ect has for chamber and even from bacteria all fluid runs through. To me this mean that all things from the biggest animal to even bacteria have a life. For example in the passage he states, “Unicellular bacteria have no hearts at all; but even they have fluid eternally in motion,washing from one side of the cell to the other ,swirling and whirling.”this quote basically explains like even things with no hearts still lives in some matter ,shape, or even form. Another metaphor doyle used in his essay was “ when young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always: when we are older...
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