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
He thought that people should think of their own, without the church telling you how to think. It was to create a dreams and illusions for the boy. 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. At the end the boy didn't get what he wanted, it was not a happy ending. The boy is infatuated with his neighbor's sister and he imagines that he will heroically bring her something back from !the bazaar. Light is used to create a joyful environment throughout the story. There was a kind darkness in the boy; the reader could tell that he was not living a happy life. He found himself angry at life and disillusioned at the end of the story. e spent most of this childhood in a Catholic School, in which he felt later as an adult that it had been almost a prison in his mind, telling him how to think and act. He wouldn't understand how much happiness that the boy would get on this trip. Joyce pointed out that adults didn't pay much attention on their child. This young boy was completely mystified by this girl, but at the end the girl was replaced by the antagonized English woman when he went to the booth at the bazaar to get a present for the girl. It was a reflection on the writer's own life in a repressive Dublin culture. I think that the writer is trying to tell the reader, life is not that beautiful.
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