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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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    Theme: the monotony of life in Dublin Negative impact: emotional suffering/unhappiness; lead to addiction (alcohol dependence) and destructive behavior (violence/abuse); guilt/anxiety; boredom “Araby” missed opportunity at happiness – the uncle’s everyday responsibilities at work precludes the narrator from experiencing love and happiness sole reason why narrator experienced emotional distress (anxiety) The narrator in “Araby” is a young male who does not have a name. Throughout the story‚

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    James Joyce’s ‘Araby’ is a short story that examines the life of people living in North Richmond Street and is described from the point of view of a child. Joyce describes the narrators awakening and sexual awareness “when she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped” (1202). In Joyce’s short story gives us a hint of the nature of innocence and how it was shattered with the inability to control the situation as it unfolds. The narrator tries to find ways to satisfy his promise to the girl he cares

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    SUMMARY—ENTRY NO. 2 PAGE/SCREEN 15 TO PAGE/SCREEN 20 (“Araby”) The narrator lives on North Richmond Street‚ which is a quiet part of town. When the Christian Brothers’ School lets out for the day‚ though‚ the street wakes up. One house sits alone‚ with no family inside. The other houses on the street cluster together‚ full of lives. A priest was the former tenant of the narrator’s house. The priest died in the house’s drawing room‚ and there were old papers throughout the house. The house smelt

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    person to believe he was abducted‚ considering that he/she doesn’t have any mental disorder? Alien abduction is sometimes associated with sleep paralysis‚ a paralysis which consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements during sleep onset or upon awakening‚ and may cause narcolepsy‚ cataplexy‚ and hypnagogic hallucinations. “Sleep paralysis with hypnopompic hallucinations (…) can be so unexpected and terrifying that people routinely believe

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    Eryn Coll Professor Leslie Watley ENG-102-015 18 Jan. 2011 James Joyce’s “Eveline” is a short story focused on a young woman facing a difficult decision. The setting and time period of the story are important to fully understand Eveline’s situation. Dublin‚ Ireland‚ in the early 20th century‚ was a place where everyone’s life was deeply rooted in and guided by Catholicism. Women were subjected to oppression from both the church and male dominated society. Eveline is torn between starting

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    Eveline: A Strong Feminist Heart Ever wonder what it was like for a feminist in the 1914’s? It was tough. But what is even tougher is being a child in the family that has to take over her mother’s responsibilities when she dies and then face the violence of a father who does not appreciate the child being a girl. Women were constantly mistreated and not given any positions of power‚ not even in their own home‚ where they would be the only ones to be clean it‚ cooking in it‚ and taking care of the

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    Araby by James Joyce James Joyce writes about the realization of reality in "Araby". The story opens with a description of North Richmond Street‚ which if filled with decaying conformity and false piety. The boy’s house contains the same sense of a dead present and a lost past. The former tenant‚ a priest‚ died in the back room of the house‚ and his legacy-several old yellowed books‚ which the boy enjoys leafing through because they are old‚ and a bicycle pump rusting in the back yard-become symbols

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    The story "Eveline" by James Joyce is about a girl who wants to escape her reality and find her ideal. Eveline had spent her young life with gloomy days. When she was 19 years old‚ she got an opportunity that she could finish up her dark and old life and start a satisfied and new life. However‚ she realized that she can’t leave her old life. At the end of the story‚ "She set her white face to him‚ passive‚ like a helpless animal" (7). There must be some reasons that she didn’t leave. James Joyce

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    4. Discuss the similarities and differences between Joyce’s Epiphany and Woolf’s Moment of Importance‚ referring to A Little Cloud and The Mark on the Wall Joyce’s epiphany and Woolf’s moment of importance are both featured writing techniques dealing with stream of consciousness in fiction‚ and both of them share some similarities and differences. As for similarities‚ and first of all‚ both techniques are artistically arranged by their writers to represent their mental experience. For instance

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