LESSING’S BIOGRAPHY Doris Lessing‚ a British writer‚ was born in 1919 and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Her father‚ who had lost a leg during his service in World War I‚ moved his family to Persia (now Iran)‚ in order to take up a job as a clerk. Doris was born there. The family then moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to farm. Her mother‚ obsessed with raising a proper daughter‚ enforced a rigid system of rules and hygiene at home‚ then she sent
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Comprehension Questions: Chapter One: Why could Davie not find Mathieu? Davie could not find Mathieu because Mathieu was below decks seriously ill. He was suspected to have caught the plague in Glasgow‚ Scotland. Why did the captain not turn back to Scotland to obtain assistance? The captain did not turn back to Scotland to obtain assistance because they would be refused entry to the port as their ship was suspected to contain the plague. Chapter Two: What had happened to Mathieu
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The Ego Inside In today’s society‚ it can be a challenge to blend in. In Doris Lessing’s article‚ “Group Minds”‚ she tries to emphasize that people need to be cautious about group compulsion. The article was to demonstrate how human beings will go against their own belief in order to please the group. The aspiration to fit into a group is something humans tend to need moreover want. Many feel the need to belong to a group in order to avoid the emptiness they feel. When people are in a group‚ they
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Before sunrise They meet cute on a train in Austria‚ and striking up a conversation. He is an America with an Eurail pass on his way to Vienna to catch a cheap plane back home. She is French‚ a student returning to Paris after visiting her grandmother. They go to the buffet car‚ drink some coffee‚ keep talking‚ and he come up with this crazy idea when the train arrive at Vienna: Why couldn’t she get off the train with him in Vienna and so they can be together until he catch the airplane. “Imagine
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The brief but complex stories of "Araby" by James Joyce and‚ "A&P by John Updike focuses on character traits rather than on plot to reveal the ironies that inherent self deception. The theme for both Sammy from "A&P" and the narrator from "Araby" is the transition from childhood to adulthood‚ a process that everyone experiences in one’s own way and time. The transformation that both characters make from children to adults includes unrealistic expectations of women‚ focusing upon one girl in particular
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scene. In " Araby" by James Joyce‚ he uses words like blind‚ quiet‚ Silent Street to emphasize that this street is dark and depressing rather than it is just a dead street. If other words would have been chosen us might have gotten a different impression and the author could have mislead us. In both stories " Araby" and " A Worn Path" there are words used to set a specific setting and coincidently both story use similar words to get the same mood for each of their settings. In " Araby " the word dark
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"Araby" Knight The short story "Araby" by James Joyce could very well be described as a deep poem written in prose. Read casually‚ it seems all but incomprehensible‚ nothing more than a series of depressing impressions and memories thrown together in a jumble and somehow meant to depict a childhood infatuation. Like the sweet milk inside a coconut‚ the pleasure of this story comes only to the reader who is willing to put forth the intense effort necessary to comprehend it. Or like an onion
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In Araby‚ Joyce depicts the narrator as a young schoolboy from Dublin who has lacked exposure to the world outside of his own. In a person with little to no exposure like so‚ infatuation and indulgence seem to easily overtake said individual as they tend to mistake the everyday ordinary for the exotic extraordinary. The narrator in this tale is undoubtedly infatuated with the Mangan’s sister‚ as he believes she is intriguing and far from the ordinary; he spends his days obsessing over her and thinks
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spiri-tual paralysis‚ James Joyce loosely but thematically tied together hisstories in Dubliners by means of their common setting. Each of thestories consists of a portrait in which Dublin contributes in some wayto the dehumanizing experience of modem life. The boy in the story"Araby" is intensely subject to the city’s dark‚ hopeless conformity‚and his tragic yearning toward the exotic in the face of drab‚ uglyreality forms the center of the story. On its simplest level‚ "Araby" is a story about a
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Alienation of "Araby" Although "Araby" is a fairly short story‚ author James Joyce does a remarkable job of discussing some very deep issues within it. On the surface it appears to be a story of a boy’s trip to the market to get a gift for the girl he has a crush on. Yet deeper down it is about a lonely boy who makes a pilgrimage to an eastern-styled bazaar in hopes that it will somehow alleviate his miserable life. James Joyce’s uses the boy in "Araby" to expose a story of isolation and lack
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