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    looking at them just as what they are. “Araby” by James Joyce is a short story of a young boy growing into an adolescent as he goes through the common feelings and events that follow experiencing first love. Also by James Joyce‚ “The Dead” it is about a middle aged man‚ Gabriel‚ who is having trouble dealing with the shock of the news of his wife’s first love‚ his once routine and satisfied life now seems to be falling apart. Despite their incomparable plots‚ “Araby” and “The Dead”

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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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    Ashlyn Wlodarski Mr. Wylie Period 3 November 26‚ 2012 Araby At the beginning of the short story “Araby‚” by James Joyce‚ we are brought back to a time when the author was just a young boy living on the described to be boring and dead North Richmond Street in Dublin‚ Ireland. In this town‚ the kids would find entertainment in the use of their imagination that insisted on playing outside “till their bodies glowed.”

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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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    UAL | Stephen´s religious crisis in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | By James Joyce | | | | Stephen´s Religious Crisis In this paper I shall examine Stephen´s religious crisis he has during the novel. The best way of doing this is following the paragraph from page sixty-six on my edition in which we can observe that Stephen´s crisis went from pride to submission‚ from order to inner chaos and from believing to not believing in God. The paragraph I’m talking about says:

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    THE SISTERS A young boy‚ who lives with his uncle and aunt‚ is concerned about a man who has had his third stroke. He passes by this paralyzed man’s window every day watching for the candles that will signify his death. The boy thinks over the word "paralysis" in his mind and ponders on its strange sound: "I said softly to myself paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears”. One night at dinner a friend named old Cotter visits the family.  Old Cotter has come to the house to share the

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    so how did it affect you? “Araby” by James Joyce is a story that is narrated by an unnamed boy and his struggles with love or the idea of it. The narrator falls into an infatuation with Mangan’s sister and because of his feelings he is having trouble in day-to-day life but after a fair share of missteps he realizes that his feelings and actions are all for nothing. The narrator falls into an infatuation with Mangan’s sister. Day after day‚ the narrator watches the sister and admires her from afar

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    In "Araby" and "Eveline" Joyce uses religious symbols to show the importance of the Catholic religion in both of the main characters’ lives. Both of these stories take place in Dublin‚ Ireland‚ a place that is very strong in its belief in the Catholic religion. In "Araby‚" the imagery of the infamous "Fall" is presented to the reader within the second paragraph to indicate its importance. The themes of religious masses can be found in "Eveline." The concept of the Catholic Ash Wednesday is presented

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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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    short stories Eveline and ArabyJames Joyce uses an optimistic reality created by dreams to show the separate‚ but similar fates of two people experiencing their first love. Both characters dream of how their life will change when united with their objects of affection. They idolize their crush’s and experience confusion and difficult decisions in pursuing their relationships. These stories give insight into the dreams and conflicts of young love during this time. Araby is a story told about a boy

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