“Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle and “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” by Jonathan Franzen both describe how people love. Both Franzen and Doyle explore the topic of love by relating to nature. In “Joyas Voladoras”, Brian Doyle talks about how even though we try so hard to build up walls around our hearts, but “down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman’s second glance, a child’s apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words ‘I have something to tell you’, a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother’s papery ancient hand in a thicket of your hair, the memory of your father’s voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children” (Doyle 143). In Franzen’s essay, he writes that pain “hurts but it doesn’t kill” (Franzen 146). Pain is a way to know that you’re alive, because going through life without it is a life without truly living.
Both authors weave together the statement that the heart is incredibly complex, yet fragile. Franzen uses his personal view on love to suggest readers to get involved and meet real people, and to cast aside and ignore the various dangers of love. He embraced love, and found it “easier, not harder, …show more content…
Doyle starts his story off with talking about hummingbirds, bringing out the poetic aspect of all things science. He compares the hummingbird’s heart to that of a blue whale, then to a tortoise, finally bringing out that there is “so much held in heart” (Doyle 143), yet in the end , the heart will be alone, no matter how many people it lets in, for a naked heart would be too exposed and bare. Franzen uses his own passion for nature and birds, saying that loving something is entirely selfless, and it can hurt, that “[love] became a portal to an important, less self-centered part of [him] that [he] had never known existed” (Franzen
Both authors weave together the statement that the heart is incredibly complex, yet fragile. Franzen uses his personal view on love to suggest readers to get involved and meet real people, and to cast aside and ignore the various dangers of love. He embraced love, and found it “easier, not harder, …show more content…
Doyle starts his story off with talking about hummingbirds, bringing out the poetic aspect of all things science. He compares the hummingbird’s heart to that of a blue whale, then to a tortoise, finally bringing out that there is “so much held in heart” (Doyle 143), yet in the end , the heart will be alone, no matter how many people it lets in, for a naked heart would be too exposed and bare. Franzen uses his own passion for nature and birds, saying that loving something is entirely selfless, and it can hurt, that “[love] became a portal to an important, less self-centered part of [him] that [he] had never known existed” (Franzen