Opinions may vary as a message is defined by an individual’s own interpretation, but it seems as if the message displayed in Brian Doyle’s essay “Joyas Voladoras” is universal, and throughout the essay there are various points leading to that assumption. That assumption can also be reached by reading the author’s short biography on the page next to the essay as well. In order to understand the message, we must reach an understanding of the man presenting the message. It states in Doyle’s biography that his son Liam was born with an irregular heart which had three chambers instead of four. In fact, one of Doyle’s works is written describing the experience. Throughout the course of “Joyas Voladoras”, Doyle talks repeatedly of …show more content…
Something else that intrigued me was the comment ‘so much held in a heart in a lifetime’. Personally it is my belief that this holds true because it is evident that Doyle is speaking of the heart in more terms than just the physical heart. The heart is not only physical in this essay, but it is correlative to actions as suggested by the sentence ‘this house of a heart drives a creature a hundred feet long’, and it is also representative of the emotions and the memories those emotions associate with such as ‘the brush of your mother’s papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair.’ These things take place while the heart is beating, and it is for that reason that there is so much held in a heart in a lifetime, and in my opinion that was the best sentence in the entire