Summary Of Joyas Voladoras By Annie Dillard

Based off of what I know, people view the world a certain way because that is the way they were taught to view it. Many people develop their values, beliefs and assumptions based on what they are told and taught as children. Knowing that, it is difficult for people to change their beliefs because they dislike ideas that go against the values or beliefs they were taught to be true. They have this constant fear that if they even try to view something from a different perspective, their original values will be seen as incorrect. Considering that, we can use Annie Dillard’s essay, “Sight into Insight”, where she gives her readers two different ways she believes everyone should see the world, in order to understand the comparison made between whales and humans, as mentioned in Brian Doyle’s essay, “Joyas Voladoras”.

In the first she says that, “Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization”; while in the second she says, “But there is another kind of seeing that involves letting go” (Dillard 139-40). Based off of Dillard’s first way of seeing, she tries to explain that we better understand things by verbalizing and putting words to them. However, her second way of seeing suggests that people can understand things by just simply observing rather than putting words to them; we should be able to experience without having to overthink. . With Dillard’s two ways of seeing we can now understand the comparison Doyle makes with whales having a “house of a heart”, while humans keep very little in their