The House of the Heart
In this short, poetic essay Joyas Voladores by Brian Doyle the paradox of the heart is widely recognizable. He explains love, and how the matter of the heart inflicts joy, but also a deep pain that roots in fear and vulnerability. Doyle begins by contrasting the hummingbird and the blue whale, providing two separate ironies of each creature’s heart, and eventually relates the heart of different animals to that of a human, suggesting that the heart is the driving force behind all living beings, but is also what fails us all.
The heart of the hummingbirds allows it to live at an incredibly fast pass, “flying more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest,” “visiting a thousand flowers a day,” “diving at sixty miles an hour” (Doyle 125). Hummingbirds’ hearts, however, cannot handle a life so fast-paced. To keep their hearts alive the hummingbirds need to slow down, but “when they rest they come close to death” (Doyle 125). Due to such past pace life the Hummingbird burns out quickly, giving them only two years to live. Just as some humans the bird tries to move at an incredibly fast rate, only to be halted with the painful feeling of a near death experience. Considering the facts, It is safe to say that What the Hummingbirds
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The Blue Whale has and enormous heart, which is as “big as a room”(Doyle 126). Just as us humans blue whales have “diseases, spirituality, wars, stories, despairs and arts” (Doyle 127). Since blue whales travel many miles “generally in pair”(Doyle 127) they have a great sense of emotion. “Though their hearts allow the blue whale to feel love toward their partner whale, they also undergo a lot of mourning. “Their penetrating moaning cries, their piercing yearning tongue, can be heard underwater for miles and miles” (Doyle 127), yet they continue on their journey in antagonizing pain. Just as humans Whales experience a lot of joy, and endure a lot of
What is Doyle’s message in Joyas Voladoras? Well, there could be many interpretations, but I specifically think that he’s trying to tell us about the heart. It does talk about many different subjects, like hummingbirds and blue whales, but it always comes back to ONE subject: the heart, the physical one and the emotional one.
Brian Doyle’s “Joyas Volardores” explores the life and emotions that come with being alive. This essay, even though it is written about hummingbirds, speaks about the hearts of many. To convey such emotion, Doyle intertwines long, detailed sentences with short and to the point ones all while telling a captivating story. In The Well Crafted Sentence, Nora Bacon describes a “both/and” (10) style of writing that can be used. This manner of writing showcases metaphor filled sentences that are seen as more pleasurable because they are paired with plain style sentences. By beginning his essay with compact, then leading into lengthy and descriptive sentences, Doyle accomplishes a both/and style of writing.
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In the “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is extremely uncanny due to the reader’s inability to trust him. Right from the beggining the reader can tell that the narrator is crazy although the narrator does proclaim that he is sane. Since a person cannot trust a crazy person, the narrator himself is unreliable and therefore uncanny. Also as the story progress the narrator falls deeper and deeper into lunacy making him more and more unreliable, until the end of the story where the narrator gives in to his insanity, and the reader loses all ability to believe him.
Much like Carson in these manners, Doyle uses metaphors to enhance the meaning of his writing in Joyas Voladoras. Joyas Voladoras tells about how all animals have a certain amount of heartbeats that they live for, and once those end, their life is over. Doyle uses the extended metaphor of the heart throughout the story and eventually brought the story back to his personal issues. Without the reader knowing that Doyle’s son was born with a three chambered heart, they wouldn’t understand the meaning as much. Once again in this case, the narrator of the story is crucial to understanding how much “So much is held in a heart in a lifetime” (Doyle 148) means to
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Cowperthwaite uses the interviews done with former SeaWorld trainers, also interviews people in the audience who witnessed the death of professional whale trainer Dawn Brancheau and the recording of the emergency calls that we hear going along with the visual footage of the horrific attacks. Blackfish also uses pathos to help portray killer whales was gentle giants who have the ability to feel emotions just like humans do. This comparison of whales to humans helps formulate an emotion from the audience and cause use to question the actions SeaWorld takes to provide these animals with a “livable” environment. To back up claim that orcas share similar characteristics with human Cowperthwaite interviews neuroscientist Dr. Lori Marino, who explains that whales have a part in their brains that allows them to process and understand emotions. By adding this scientific information of killer whales and the way the process emotions helps to make the reinforce Cowperthwaite’s claim that orcas deserve to be out of captivity.
Have you ever felt the urge to know how it feels to be insane. Have you wonder how it would feel to be rid of something that haunted you for eight days. Have you felt the thrill of getting rid of it by ending it. I might be a little crazy but, I strongly believe that tell tale heart is appropriate for the 8th grade standard. “What is the Tell Tale Heart?”, you my ask. Tell Tale Heart is a horror genre story that is about a man who suffers from a mental disease, and he lives with a old man that never harmed him or wronged him. What made him kill him was because of the old man’s eye. “It was like a vulture’s eye” (pg.89) so he stalked him in his sleep every night for seven days just to see the old man’s eye open. His verge to insanity he was not stable. He was already ill, but instead of seeking for help he states that it sharpened his senses. He stated that he was trustworthy (no end mark; reread this run-on
The behavior of the narrator in The Tell-Tale heart demonstrate characteristic that are associated with people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoid schizophrenia . When Poe wrote this story in 1843 obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoia had not been discovered. However in modern times the characteristics demonstrated by the narrator leads people to believe that he has a mental illness. Poe’s narrator demonstrates classic signs throughout the story leading the reader to believe that this character is mad
The Tell-Tale Heart: An Analysis In Edgar Allan Poe’s short-story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the storyteller tries to convince the reader that he is not mad. At the very beginning of the story, he asks, "...why will you say I am mad? " When the storyteller tells his story, it's obvious why. He attempts to tell his story in a calm manner, but occasionally jumps into a frenzied rant.
In the film “Blackfish”, the documentary about whales in captivity at SeaWorld, they have a lot of references to pathos. The film makers are trying to make people feel bad for the whales and want them out of captivity. Whales are not made for the life in captivity, that is why they have them on so many antibiotics. Whales stay with their family for their whole lives, unless they are taken from their families and are put in places like SeaWorld. Which is sad to take them away from their parents. SeaWorld trainers talk about their experiences with the whales and why they love SeaWorld, some stories go way back to when they were children. Whales have a larger emotional part of the brain; they have more emotions than humans. In the film, they
How can we justify a man is mad or not? A man may talk like a wise man, and yet act like a mad man. In Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator depicted a story that he killed the old man because of the old man’s so-call "evil eye" which made his blood run cold. Althought the narrator tried to persuade the reader that he was normal, several pieces of evidence of confusing illusion and reality adequately indicates his madness and absurdity. By examining his behaviour and mind, I will expound his madness thoroughly.
"Lost Hearts" written by M R James is a disturbing yet intriguing short story. M R James uses intense descriptions and shows ghostly figures to create tension. Throughout the story unpredicted events take place. Mr Abney’s obsession with pagans and religion makes the reader question why he is so interested about taking in his orphan cousin and how it could benefit him. “The Professor of Greek at Cambridge had been heard to say that no one knew more of the religious beliefs of the later pagans than did the owner of Aswarby.” We learn about the disappearance of the two previous children who had also been taken in by Mr Abney. After the ghostly sightings of the two children with their hearts ripped out, are witnessed by young cousin Stephen, it creates a sense of foreshadowing events and suggests to the reader, the third victim will be innocent Stephen.
The short film ,”Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation After Being Freed From Nets,” shows 3 men, and a woman are in a small boat, cutting away the net that inprisons the whale. This is a fine example of the value of human emotions enhancing the survival of the whale, that otherwise would more than likely die. After being freed the whale danced a happy dance of sorts, and showed it 's appreciation for valuing it 's life enough to risk their own safety to save it ("Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING
In life, many are forced to make critical decisions. The poems The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski and The Journey by Mary Oliver demonstrate the importance of making those difficult choices for the benefit of oneself. The two poems have similar tones and word choice but differ in the tone and approach to the theme. Through the use of figurative language, such as word choice, tone, sentence structure and voice, Oliver and Bukowski develop the theme of their story in ways that are both similar and different.