I Ll Give You The Sun Vs Araby Analysis
Oleh Lemishka
Professor Patrick Randolph
UCLR 100
24 March 2017
Childish Narration
The quote from My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut by Toba Beta, “Understanding is not absolutely final. What's now right could be wrong later,” most accurately depicts the progress of reading where you have to wait for the ending before making conclusions. Full understanding of the book comes after ending, so the reader would not drop into the pitfalls of the narration. It is something we see throughout both stories, I’ll Give You the Sun and “Araby”. The reader experiences the story through different points of view. Our opinions change, and only at the end we can say what we actually think of what we just read. The first title is a novel about growing up, grief, and betrayal. Events were …show more content…
Because of the influences, their narrations becomes very subjective. For example, the nameless boy is ready to go on his own to the Araby bazaar to buy something for the girl he is so obsessed with; “If I go, I said, I will bring you something” (Joyce 505). He is totally influenced and overwhelmed with infatuation. He idealizes the girl in his mind and would do anything to please her. We can see similar things happening to Noah and how he thinks of Brian. He is on his third version of drawing of Brian that he tries to perfect (Nelson 71). He has great influence on Noah, so it is difficult to handle, just like the moment by the telescope (Nelson 104). Noah’s narration was influenced by how close Brian was standing. This show that he does not know how to handle the pressure, and it causes discomfort. As we can see, both Noah and the nameless boy are under the influence of first love, which causes very subjective narration of events. Subjectivism cannot be trustworthy if we take a step back and see the situation from outside. In order to get real understanding of the text there is a need to stay objective and
Professor Patrick Randolph
UCLR 100
24 March 2017
Childish Narration
The quote from My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut by Toba Beta, “Understanding is not absolutely final. What's now right could be wrong later,” most accurately depicts the progress of reading where you have to wait for the ending before making conclusions. Full understanding of the book comes after ending, so the reader would not drop into the pitfalls of the narration. It is something we see throughout both stories, I’ll Give You the Sun and “Araby”. The reader experiences the story through different points of view. Our opinions change, and only at the end we can say what we actually think of what we just read. The first title is a novel about growing up, grief, and betrayal. Events were …show more content…
Because of the influences, their narrations becomes very subjective. For example, the nameless boy is ready to go on his own to the Araby bazaar to buy something for the girl he is so obsessed with; “If I go, I said, I will bring you something” (Joyce 505). He is totally influenced and overwhelmed with infatuation. He idealizes the girl in his mind and would do anything to please her. We can see similar things happening to Noah and how he thinks of Brian. He is on his third version of drawing of Brian that he tries to perfect (Nelson 71). He has great influence on Noah, so it is difficult to handle, just like the moment by the telescope (Nelson 104). Noah’s narration was influenced by how close Brian was standing. This show that he does not know how to handle the pressure, and it causes discomfort. As we can see, both Noah and the nameless boy are under the influence of first love, which causes very subjective narration of events. Subjectivism cannot be trustworthy if we take a step back and see the situation from outside. In order to get real understanding of the text there is a need to stay objective and