Joyas Voladoras Analysis

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In the essay, ‘Joyas Voladoras”, Doyle begins with introducing how the hummingbird works and lives in life with Doyle later connecting it to the way of the human heart. In the last paragraph, Doyle writes “all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore.” I connect to this quote and I believe this is true because Doyle is saying that human emotions will, in the end no matter what, will suffer and go through horrible emotions and feelings. But the heart will also learn how to cope with those feelings and will still have side effects of the feeling and emotion. In life, the majority of human beings have family and relationships. Whether the family is a good or bad effect on them, it helps later on how the human reacts in their future relationship. And with each relationship, ending either on a good or bad note, it will also effect on how they react and continue to react in their life and relationships which is what Doyle’s quote is saying. Let’s take the first part of Doyle’s quote. He says “all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, score and torn.” By this, he is saying that no matter how …show more content…
A person may resume their former activities and their being may go back to how they acted before the experience. But that experience will always stay with the person and will continue to affect the person as to how they will continue in life and react to their next decisions in life. And like everyone who is trying to do their best in life, or at least the best they can do by not letting history repeat itself and get hurt again. So they use the best of their knowledge, from past experiences, from stories told by others, to not have history repeating and be at the beginning of the cycle
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