A Comparative Analysis Between “Araby” and “The Bread of Salt” Age brings maturity‚ experience ripens it. ― Vimal Athithan Reality isn ’t the way you wish things to be‚ nor the way they appear to be‚ but the way they actually are. ― Robert J. Ringer These two quotes capture what James Joyce’s Araby and N.V.M. Gonzalez’s The Bread of Salt are all about – maturity and realization. Araby and The Bread of Salt are both coming of age stories‚ featuring an adolescent boy’s first experience with love
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Elissa Scott #CO2428176 Professor Abraham Tarango ENG100 September 8‚ 2014 ARABY AND WILD BERRY BLUE Araby and Wild Berry Blue are similar short stories yet evolve in various ways. Both narrations involve main characters agonizing with young angst over the admiration of perceived love. The two narrators see themselves as two individual adolescents pining for mysterious and alluring representations of beauty‚ who they feel will set them free from their suffering. This infatuation distracts
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The story “Araby” by James Joyce is about a young catholic boy who lives in a religious town and goes to a religious school. He had really no exposure to women or anything else. Then he saw his friend’s sister that lives across from him. He started to have feelings toward her. The boy is starting to go through puberty and he expresses his sexual desires towards the girl. He is having a hard time to deny it because of his religion. He feels that it is a sin. Joyce connects paragraph five and six to
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James Joyce’s Araby is about a boy experiencing emotions of first love in Dublin‚ Ireland during a time when the Irish were starting to fight for freedom from the British. Although on the surface it is about first love‚ it becomes more intricate. The character of the boy is used to give the reader an image of everyday life in Ireland and it seems like a dark and an unpleasant place to be. Joyce uses symbolism and imagery to illustrate the struggle of post-colonial Ireland. The symbolism is used
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Phil McGraw once said “There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.” In both stories ‘Araby’ by James Joyce and‚ ‘A&P’ by John Updike‚ two very diverse young men feel they are in love with a girl whom they know very little about‚ and who do not notice them in a romantic way‚ then later in the stories they grasp insight that they do not love these girls. On thus journey of coming to realization that it is not love but infatuation‚ both young men face a series of struggles
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In the short story “Araby”‚ we meet a boy who’s name is never mentions and he’s basically going through the puberty stage of development. He’s obsessed with his friends older sister but he has never spoken to her before. When describing her he says “Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little
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Thesis In James Joyce’s short story Araby he is successful in creating an intense narrative. He does this in such a way that he enables the reader to feel what it is actually like to live in Dublin at the turn of the century when the Catholic Church had an enormous amount of authority over Dubliner’s. The reader is able to feel the narrators exhausting struggle to escape this influence of the Catholic Church by replacing it with a materialistic driven love for a girl.
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In the short story “Araby” by James Joyce‚ adoration appears not only in religion but also in a young boy’s romantic fantasy toward an older girl. The setting of the story being Ireland brings the assumption forth that the narrator practices Catholicism. This idea furthers itself when “the space of the sky above us was the color ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns.” The personification of the feeble lamps lifting their lanterns towards the sky
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Short Story Analysis of "Araby" by James Joyce In James Joyce’s short story "Araby‚" the main character is a young boy who confuses obsession with love. This boy thinks he is in love with a young girl‚ but all of his thoughts‚ ideas‚ and actions show that he is merely obsessed. Throughout this short story‚ there are many examples that show the boy’s obsession for the girl. There is also evidence that shows the boy does not really understand love or all of the feelings that go along with it. When
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forces thatbear on his life converge‚ and we can‚ in that instant‚ understand him.Each story in the collection is centered in an epiphany‚ and eachstory is concerned with some failure or deception‚ which results in re-alization and disillusionment. "Araby" follows this pattern. Themeaning is revealed in a young boy’s psychic journey from first love to despair and disappointment‚ and the theme is found in the boy’sdiscovery of the discrepancy between the real and the ideal in life. The story opens
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