The story Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle and the article To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do this by Mandy Len Catron both talk about love and are both authors are Canadian. After reading both works it touched me and made me see love differently.
Author Brain Doyle’s story, Joyas Voladorus, talks about hummingbirds and the size of their hearts. Since the hummingbirds hearts are small they endure a lot, for instance hummingbirds can travel nonstop for five hundred miles (Doyle 502). But once the hummingbird stops to rest, their heartbeat drops dramatically. This is dangerous and puts the hummingbirds life on the line. Then the author, Brain Doyle, moves on to talking about the mammal with the biggest heart, the blue whale. He expresses how for a mammal so big, humans don’t really seem to know much about blue whales like there mating rituals, language, social communication, and so on and so for. Doyle further shares how everyone has a heart, something that churns inside of them, and that we all deal with so much in a lifetime. Due to the fact we get hurt and broken, we have walls and don’t let anyone in. When we are younger and innocence we see the world through rose colored glasses. We believe that someone will come and save us only to realize when we grow old that the only person that can save us is ourselves. Over all Brian Doyle’s story, I feel, is meant for everyone.
To Fall in Love with Anyone Do this by Mandy Len Catron I feel is written for young adults who are confused about love and searching for it. Mandy Len Catron talks about a psychologist by the name of Aron who did a social experiment. Dr. Aron had two heterosexual strangers answer a series of question and then look into each other eyes for four minutes and by the end of the social experiment these two strangers fell in love and got married. So Mandy decided to try this experiment out with an acquaintance. By the end of the experiment she came to look at love as more of an action rather than something you fall into.
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