James Joyce
In James Joyce's story "Araby", it was supposed to be a simple love story about a young boy who was in loved with his neighbor's sister. But indeed the main point of the story is to demonstrate adolescence of a young boy, the young boy's changed of maturity at the end of the story, and public life in Dublin at that time. One can see that at the end of the story how this city had disillusioned and disappointed this young boy's life and hopes, and reflected the feelings of the boy at the end. The story expressed its theme through the setting, the characterization of the boy and the writer's point of view as the narrator.In the story instead of using the first person point of view, the writer was the storyteller, not the naive boy. At the beginning of the story, the writer wrote that, " North Richmond Street, being blind was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' school set the boys free." Although the boys were freed, they were placed into a prison where not even play brought pleasure to them. The writer himself once thought he wanted to be a monk for the Catholic Church. But later he saw the church as a prison. So he wrote in "Araby" about the young boys in a Catholic school. Since Joyc
"Araby" is not only about the harsh life that people were forced to deal with in Dublin society. It was a reflection on the writer's own life in a repressive Dublin culture. One can see that Joyce tired to leave his childhood behind and chose to write his childhood autobiography under a different name. He chose to write about his life and feelings in other people's words and in other people's mouths. He wrote about himself in a third person point of view in order to distance himself from an unbiased look at his pass so that he could write about the real truth of his real life. In this story, the writer used a lot of darkness and light to described the environment around the boy. He used dark and obscure to make the boy's reality of living in the gloomy town more like a moody environment. Darkness is used throughout the story as to emphasize the feeling for the boy. The setting where the boy was living is a place full of darkness, where a priest was died in a room filled with dust and the environment was dusk as well. He chose this gloomy setting to be the home of a young boy who is infatuated with his neighbor's sister. The boy was young and naive and he led a dull and boring life. The writer used darkness to make the boy's reality more believable through more vivid, precise descriptions. The used of bright light is a reference to the infatuation of the boy towards the girl. It was to create a dreams and illusions for the boy. The boy is infatuated with his neighbor's sister and he imagines that he will heroically bring her something back from ! the bazaar. The writer u
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Approximate Word count = 1071
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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