Joyas Voladoras

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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without also protecting yourself from happiness” by Jonathan Safran Foer. As a child we believe in fairytales and love stories, but as we grow up we protect ourselves from heartbreaks. In order to secure oneself, one must shield that heart away creating loneliness. In the essay, Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle, the author expresses the meaning of loneliness in order to protect oneself from pain and sorrow.
Being alone means to have no one else present in their life or on one’s own. Even though “we open windows to each other [] we live alone in the love of the heart” (142). Doyle presents the meaning of loneliness through explaining that even though we are open with others we are alone in love, since one secludes that heart from others. Humans believe they are safeguarding themselves with this façade, but are truly creating a wall of solitude and never fully loving or trusting people. Another effect cause by the wall of solitude is never experiencing a major aspect of life which is love. The author compares aspects of life through humming birds and blue whales to represent how one can live their life. Would one rather be alone and not experience love as well as a short lived life like a humming bird or like the blue whales living many …show more content…

So in order to fortify that hurt, they “brick up [their] heart as shout and tight [….] as [they] possibly can” (143). This bricked up wall prevents him/her from happiness and excludes them from others, in order to prevent pain caused by others. However, “no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall” it still falls in the end (143). It is human’s natural instinct to shield one self, but in the end we still are designed to experience pain and sorrow. No matter how hard we try to distance ourselves, someone will always break that

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