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    READING IN OUR LIFE A person who knows how to read can educate themselves in any area of life they see fit. People who don’t read or are poor readers often have low opinions of themselves and their capabilities. They mostly feel isolated and behaviour problems surface. As we live in an age abundant with information‚ reading is the only way to become informed. *Why Is Reading Important? From time to time people have wondered why reading is important. Well The importance of reading cannot be

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    Araby” Essay During the course of any literature‚ tone plays a very important role in expressing the views of the author. In “Araby” by James Joyce‚ Joyce uses this imperative factor in literature to display his view on the story. The quest of life is understood to be a pursuit of happiness. Everyone will hope for the best‚ and never for the worst. However‚ life is not always enjoyable‚ and in some cases it can be downright unsavory. Some individuals are born into the misfortune of living in

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    To what extents would you go to capture the attention of your crush‚ someone you are so infatuated with? In the short story Araby by James Joyce it describes a young boy so stunned by his neighbor he does all sorts of things to see and speak to her. He proves how infatuated he is with her throughout the short story by; doing small things to ensure he can see her‚ the tone he uses to describe her and how she makes him feel and making a promise to her as a way to potentially lead to more interaction

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    In the Araby‚ we can appreciate a feeling of darkness surrounding the street where the main character lives. The neighbors tend to be dreary‚ the weather tends to be cold‚ and the environment tends to be loneliness. This paragraph says‚ “When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the color of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed

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    James Joyce - Araby How does setting progress the story? In James Joyce’s Araby setting takes center stage immediately to capture the readers interest. Joyce goes into great detail to describe his surroundings so that his narrator’s emotions may be magnified. Joyce uses setting as well as other literary devices in order to do this. Setting in a story is vital to develop a character. Joyce first describes the street his character lives on as “being blind‚” (262) and that the only time the

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    beings who do not have any authentic emotional issues in their lives. In Araby‚ James Joyce explores that thought with a story of a young boy falling for a girl. The boy in this story is a light-hearted child that loves playing in the neighborhood with his friends. One of his friends‚ Mangan‚ has an older sister and all of the boys are infatuated with her appearance. The sister desperately wants to attend a bazaar named Araby. “She could not go‚ she said‚ because there would be a retreat that week

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    Araby Araby is a short story about a young boy that falls in love that has little or no experiences on the subject he in turn gets to feel for himself some of the follies that come along with it. Firstly we see the awkwardness the boy demonstrates around his crush. This boy who remains nameless throughout the story we see follow around a girl and spy on her‚ this in my books isn’t a great way to get the ladies‚ but on the other hand he is just a boy and the story took place over

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    James Joyce’s‚ "Araby‚" and William Wordsworth’s’ "We Are Seven‚" uncovers the innocence in childhood and how spaces and places could change a child’s innocence to an experience. Moreover‚ these two bits of writing share similarities and differences in the tones‚ themes‚ symbolism‚ and so on. In Joyce’s piece‚ "Araby‚" the story is seen through a child’s eyes that see just happiness and enjoyment in the world that is displayed around him. Joyce sees this view of the absence of negativity and partiality

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    Joyce’s Araby begins as a story about a young boy and his first love‚ his neighbor referred to in the story as Mangan’s sister. However‚ the young boy soon turns his innocent love and curiosity into a much more intense desire‚ transforming this female and his journey to the bazaar into something much more intense and lustful. From the beginning‚ Joyce paints a picture of the neighborhood in which the boy lives as very dark and cold. Even the rooms within his house are described as unfriendly‚ "Air

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    James Joyce’s Symbolic "Araby" James Joyce’s "Araby"‚ a story filled with symbolic images of church‚ religion‚ death‚ and decay. It is the story of youthful‚ sacred adoration of a young boy directed at a nameless girl‚ known only as Mangan’s sister. After visiting "Araby"‚ the mystical place in which he is trying to find the beauty missing from the church as well as his soul‚ the young narrator realizes his infatuation is misguided as the pain of that realization takes hold. The story

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