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    Araby Questions

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    Lakesa smith Comp II Section 29 Araby What can the following details mean? They could mean that he comes from a poor family that lives in a part of the city that people don’t look to good upon. What do you think some fo these images might be about? They are describing some of the things that he experienced or is experiencing every day. Also he’s telling you about his living conditions. Do you have any similar experiences of playing in a group of kids‚ maybe with some “rough tribes” as your

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    Escaping Homelessness In the world many people are homeless. Homelessness is when one person or a group of people have no steady place to live. This is known as chronic homelessness. In America‚ on a given night‚ approximately 564‚708 people are homeless; 15 percent of those homeless are considered chronically homeless. (National Alliance to End Homelessness). While escaping homelessness can be a difficult thing to do‚ many have found that it is possible to achieve. Things like job loss

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    Clouds The main characters in “Araby” by James Joyce and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien are both at war with fantasy and reality. Both of these characters are ones motivated by their infatuation with woman they hardly know but believe that they love them. Both these stories tell us that their fantasizing and objectification of these women are used to cover up their true feelings. In return this offers the main characters an escape from reality. Through the exchange of letters between

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    The Fantasy Story

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    Today I’d like to tell you about fantasy literature. It is very hard to tell all about it but I’ll try to do it as good as possible and not being boring. First fantasy motifs were shown in romanticism. We all know the mystical and unreal characters: ghosts‚ phantoms etc. Authors for building the special mood and charm of that epoch used that figures. But fantasy is something more than romantic ways of showing nature or inner experiences of the main character in the novel. It’s

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    Symbolism in Araby

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    This paragraph from James Joyce’s "Araby" appears at the beginning of the story. This passage opens the story with a description of the boy’s home and neighbourhood. The passage also describes the boy’s life using symbolism and imagery done through the priest‚ the house and neighbourhood‚ and the garden. The importance of the boy’s relationship with his faith is immediately touched upon in the beginning of the story. The connection is indirectly made through the quotation‚ "it was a quiet street

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    Araby Symbolism

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    Joyce introduces astonishing symbols in the short story Araby. Some of the symbols we talked about in the class were religion‚ dark‚ blind and other more. Specifically‚ Joyce expanded on symbolic imageries to set a particular scene in The North Richmond Street. With attention to‚ the priest became the symbol for the unknown narrator in the story. The narrator is currently residing in the dead priest’s house. According to James Joyce in Araby‚ “Air‚ musty from having been long enclosed‚ hung in all

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    Fantasy Rhetoric

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    Fantasy Rhetoric: Summary and Analysis of Katherine Fowkes’s Fantasy Films A Rhetoric Analysis consists of a multitude of attributes some larger than others and some not specifically require. Among those are certain attributes that are what provides the foundation of any Rhetoric work‚ Logos‚ Pathos‚ and Ethos or persuasive appeal. My job is to show you the other attributes consisting of the context of the argument‚ the authors’ attitude‚ and the tone of the overall work. So first I will have

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    Araby By James Joyce

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    picture of Dublin through many of his stories. He believed in portraying Ireland as it really was. The story of Araby is a portrayal of ‘first love’ and tells of a boy’s powerful infatuation with a young girl whom he encounters. Joyce begins the story by creating a sense of a life and world that is both gloomy and trapped. The houses are described

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    Araby Theme Essay

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    James Joyce’s short story‚ Araby‚ focuses on a young boy who becomes obsessed with attending the Araby bazaar in order to find a gift for a girl he likes. I believe one of the story’s underlying themes is the power of coveting. For example‚ the boy narrator says‚ “ I had never spoken to her‚ except for a few casual words‚ and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood” (Joyce‚ n.d.‚ para. 4). It is clear from this passage the boy fantasizes the idea of being with Mangan’s sister‚ yet

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    Araby; A literary Analysis

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    9/24/2013 Araby; A Literary Analysis The vivid imagery in “Araby” by James Joyce is used to express the narrator’s romantic feelings and situations throughout the story. The story is based on a young boy’s adoration for a girl. Though Joyce never reveals any names‚ the girl is known to be “Mangan’s Sister.” The boy is wrapped up around the promise to her that he would buy her a gift if he attends the Araby Bazaar. From the beginning to the end‚ Joyce uses imagery to define the pain that often

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