Xiaoquan(Vernon) Gu (NUID: 001268461)Ms. StoneENGW1102Sept 21th2016Response to Joyas VoladorasEach time of reading through Joyas Voladoras deepens my understanding of thispassage and transmits me new information. This passage expresses the truth of realityof human being’s life within two pages but in a very comprehensive way, bycomparing and contrasting with various species in this world.Brian Doyle has a unique approach, metaphors, in Joyas Voladoras, instead ofsimply having straightforward statements, which made his standpoints valid andcompelling. Reading a purely candid text tastes tedious sometimes and does notrequire readers to mediate about arguments made by authors, for authors passinformation in a very direct way. Contrast with this type of text, Joyas Voladorascompares hummingbird with tortoise to symbolize people’s lives. Hummingbird andtortoise represent completely two different lifestyles. As the passage says, “Every
