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 …show more content…
He expresses that how hard life is for the hummingbirds, he mentions in the story that hummingbirds have a crazy heart rate, metabolism, and that stopping is not an option for them. He states, “Hummingbirds can fly as fast as five hundred miles without pausing to rest. But when they rest they come close to death”(Doyle). This shows how the hummingbirds can also feel pain even though they are the smallest creatures. The hummingbirds can’t stop moving because if they do then they can die, so they are always moving even though they get tired they still have to move. Then these hummingbirds starts to feel pain and eventually they will stop and die. Like humans, people that are always working and have a busy schedules have to work, but if they stop because they get tired of doing their work they can start to feel useless and feel like they can’t do anything, that is why they keep moving just like the hummingbirds. Doyle is displaying that people that are soft and fragile can always feel pain.
So overall “Joyas Voladoras” is about that it doesn’t matter how big or small anyone is they can still go through pain. Like the hummingbirds and the blue whales, they both are the biggest creatures and one of the smallest creatures and they still feel pain. Size does not matter about feeling pain. Also, like the humans they can feel big and tough on the outside but in their inside they