Araby(loss of innocence)

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In James Joyce's Araby the boys loss of innocence may be confusing and even

painful but at the same time it is important . It begins his journey into adulthood . The boy in Araby is experiencing something all young men experience , the first crush . It is a time in his life where he is having new feelings, and trying to express those feelings to the object of his affection is next to impossible . Even the simple act of watching Mangan's sister brings up emotions in the boy . To say the least the boy is overcome when Mangan's sister

actually speaks to him . He is in fact so overcome that he doesn't even know how heanswered the girl . To think a girl he has secretly watched every day and shyly followed from a distance while he walked to school is actually showing him some attention .Unfortunately for the boy the attention is mistaken for something more than it is.

As the boy waits for the day he can go to the bazaar , he thinks of nothing exceptMangan's sister. The boy sees her

when he is going to sleep , when he wakes , and in school in his papers. The boy wants nothing more than to see Mangan's sister again , but ,in his mind for him to do that he needs to get her something from Araby. The boy is so charged from his encounter that he says he wishes to annihilate the days separating him from going to Araby and ultimately Mangan's sister . Finally when the day has arrived that he can go to Araby he has to wait for Uncle to get home . To the boys dismay his Uncle gets home late and is drunk . The boy is apparently familiar with this situation and knows

and how trivial it was . This is where he goes through his epiphany . The boy realizes that what he said to Mangan's sister had no more meaning than what these men and woman were talking about . The boy is flooded with anguish and anger . He was acting in a way he never thought he would . As Joyce puts it "Derided by Vanity" . It is through vanity that the boy loses a little of his innocence. The loss of innocence is som

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Joyce's Araby, Derided Vanity, mangan's sister, loss innocence, boy waits, boy realizes, uncle home, araby boy,

Approximate Word count = 677
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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