This section is a closer look at the final section in the essay. I wanted to really go in depth on this section so I could understand how Brian Doyle wraps up his essay. I think this was the most powerful part of the essay and I really enjoyed working with it. He really understands how to bring together the topics of life and love in to mix with eachother. 

            Doyle closes his piece “Joyas Voladoras” with a very poetic last paragraph explaining the importance of life and love.   He is stressing the importance of life because he wants the reader to realize how important their life is in every moment. He states “So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much heald in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment” (Doyle 274). In our life we can live many different ways through our own choices. These daily decisions will change out entire life. We must make decisions based on what we believe is important in our life because every moment truly is important. Each moment pieces together to make a day and each day pieces together to make a lifetime. We have to still think of our life as moments so we can cherish each moment in itself.  

            Doyle also talks about the importance of love and how “we live alone in the house of the heart” (Doyle 274). We do not always let people in but when we do we only let them in through a window. By this Doyle is trying to say we really do not let people into our hearts truly because we are always living alone in the house of the heart. He wants us to let people in even though we have been hurt before. He tells the reader that you can build up your home as much as you want to try to not let people in but it can come crashing down in an instant. Certain triggers will bring us back to where we last were with these memories left without walls up.

            This all works very well within the piece “Joyas Voladoras” because he is bringing together the idea of the heart. With the heart there is life and love. This last paragraph talks about how life is important which makes sense as to why Doyle used metaphors such as hummingbirds, tortoises, and blue whales. With the blue whales he brings in the element of love into the piece. This is brought out even more in the final paragraph to explain about how we as humans love.