In James Joyce' short story "Araby" he describes a young boy's first experience with love and obsession. ... James Joyce wrote this story to reflect on the irrational complexities of a young man's first love. ... James Joyce chose to write "Araby" in the first person narrative point of view. ... James Joyce uses this point of view effectively by leaving many of the characters with no name what so ever. ... In conclusion, James Joyce has written a story that reflects everybody's struggles between their childhood and their adolescence. ...

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Both Updike's A&P and Joyce's Araby provide a similar theme that conveys a boy's infatuation for a girl and the hardships he has to go through, in order to acquire more experience in the complicated area of love. ... One example of specific detail that is present in A &P, as well, is the "whiteness of the girl's skin" ("John Updike A&P and James Joyce's Araby.") In Araby, the male protagonist focuses on the "milky softness and "the white curve of her neck,"" ("John Updike A&P and James Joyce's Araby.") which demonstrates the boy's interest in slight feature...

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Araby James Joyce's "Araby," is about the deep infatuation of a teenage boy for his friend's sister, and how poverty and anguish taint even the purest childhood dream. ... One day Mangan's sister asks the boy whether he plans to go to Araby, a bazaar being held close by. ... Getting to Araby then became his mission. ... The paradox between dreams and reality became clear to the boy after he visited the Araby fair. The boy imagined the Araby as an exotic place filled with thrills and mystery. ...

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In a Child's Dream In "Araby" by James Joyce, the author mirrors a young boy's journey into an exotic bazaar, to the development of childhood into adolesence. ... This character that Joyce creates is a young boy of passion and intense romance. ... But somehow he tells her that if he goes to Araby, the bazaar, he will get her something. ... This quest for Araby and the gift have become more to the boy, they have become a dream. ... James Joyce's "Araby" is an excellent coming of age story. ...

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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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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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