That movement is demonstrated in "Araby," written by James Joyce, with a young boy who seems to be a little naive an is going through things in his life that he does not quite understand yet. ... In "Araby," the boy with no name seems to fall in love with his friend's sister but never really tells her. When she steps outside, the boy's "heart leaps" (Joyce 843), and he rushes so that he can follow her every morning. ... (Joyce 844). ... Those are the events that triggered the movement from innocence to experience in the boy from "Araby" and Sammy's lives and events similar t...

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Their Loss of Illusion The two stories "Araby- by James Joyce and "Jasmine- by Bharati Mukherjee are both stories of youth and lost innocence. ... In his brief yet complex story "Araby-, James Joyce concentrates entirely on his character, a young boy who lived in Dublin around the turn of the century. ... He agrees to go to Araby to buy her a gift; however, when he arrives there it is too late. ... Muhkerjee's "Jasmine- has similarities, yet on the other hand it is exceedingly different from "Araby-. ... The boy in "Araby- wants only one thing, simply to get the attention of the...

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Araby" by James Joyce is a short story in which the protagonist gained a consciousness that was beyond him. ... The setting in Araby was in Dublin, in a conventional, quiet neighborhood. ... Araby, written in the third person, had tones in which were illusory and subjective. ...

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Comparing the two stories, "A&P" by John Updike and "Araby" by James Joyce, there are cases of explicit and implied goals that differ with each other. ... In the story "Araby", the concept of explicit and implicit also implies to what the main character does. ... At first he was shy and was too nervous to confront her until one day she asks the narrator if he planning to go to Araby. ... The narrator's explicit goal was to try to buy the gift from his view of Araby however the implicit goal was actually easy to realize which the narrator was trying to win h...

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