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    Araby By James Joyce

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    James Joyce’s “Araby” is an emotional short story of a nameless boy in Dublin who is controlled by his love for Mangan’s sister. Joyce uses a first person narrative point of view in “Araby.” The narrator is a young‚ sensitive boy who learns that his romantic feelings for a girl are illusory. His affection for her compels him to journey to a bazaar called Araby. The story takes place during the early 1900s. James Joyce uses irony to describe the stupidity in the narrator’s affection for the girl

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    Araby, By James Joyce

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    James Joyce throughout “Araby”‚ uses the narrator to show realism and depict a slow transition from immature tendencies to maturity. In this first person story‚ the narrator infatuated with a girl known as Mangan’s sister‚ uses immature tactics in a hopeless plot to win over the girl he has “never spoken to” (68). During the James Joyce short story‚ we see the narrator express immature undeveloped infatuation for a girl he barely knows leading some to think he is a young adolescent. Additionally

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    Araby, By James Joyce

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    Various authors use different narrative techniques in order to express their ideas in the plot and characterization of their story. “Araby” by James Joyce is the story of a boy‚ who is desperate to find a sense of love and affection‚ so he promises to get Mangan’s sister something from a bazaar known as Araby. However‚ he fails to accomplish his task and leaves filled with anger and disappointment. “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell is the story of how a British police officer‚ who secretly

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    Araby, By James Joyce

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    alludes to the sheer power of his infatuation with his friend’s sister‚ asserting that‚ “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 onto my bosom.” Such powerful language communicates the sentiment that the narrator was borderline obsessed with Mangan’s sister‚ allowing her to permeate throughout his very existence‚ invading

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    Araby, By James Joyce

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    To begin‚ There’s a boy who ends up going to a bazaar known as “Araby” to try and buy something for the girl across the street. In the end he realizes that it was a useless trip. Joyce does a good job of using symbolism and setting in this story. James Joyce grew up in Dublin‚ Ireland. He was an intellectual man‚ and was known for his stories and poems. “Araby”‚ is in his series of short stories known as Dubliners. “His characters are drawn in naturalistic detail‚ which at first aroused the anger

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    Araby By James Joyce

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    The short story called Araby by James Joyce is mostly about childhood and first crush. In the short story‚ the reader is given that the young boy barely spoken to Mangan’s sister as it shown that he likes her on page 30. The young boy barely spoke to Mangan’s sister as he is nervous to speak to her. He could only look at her from afar as he followed her behind to see her brown figure in his eye and walked passed her. The young boy could not go up to Mangan’s sister to tell her that he likes her

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    Mangan In Araby

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    In “Araby” by James Joyce‚ Mangan’s sister is not the main character‚ but is still an important element to the short story as she inspires the story’s actions. Mangan is one of the narrator’s friends who he played up and down the streets with. Mangan’s sister stands on their porch every day to call their brother home. The narrator has the greatest crush on Mangan’s sister‚ and savors every glimpse of her he can get. He looks through the window every morning just to see Mangan’s sister leaving

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    James Joyce. Araby

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    1. In Joyce’s short story‚ the young narrator views Araby as a symbol of the mysteriousness and seduction of the Middle East. When he crosses the river to attend the bazaar and purchase a gift for the girl‚ it is as if he is crossing into a foreign land. But his trip to the bazaar disappoints and disillusions him‚ awakening him to the rigid reality of life around him. The boy’s dream to buy some little thing on bazaar is roughly divided on the callousness of adults who have forgotten about his request

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    issues in their lives. In ArabyJames 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 in her convent” (Joyce n.p.). The boy offers to

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    Araby by James Joyce

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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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