Araby Figurative Language Analysis

The beginning of Araby represents the beginning of someone's childhood. In these precious moments of childhood many children develop unbelievable minds. Many children see the possibility in everything, and they create things that adults couldn't dream of. James Joyce represents this youth by making objects in his story come to life. The reader finds worlds being created by everyday objects. Objects such as houses come alive because they hold life inside of them, and how they look at one another with imperturbable faces. (989). Imagination tons of innocent children can create something living from an item that appears superficial. The boy of Araby is no different from any other child when it comes to their imagination. The boy, just like many other children can see the wonders of inanimate object or even from …show more content…
While there are people who believe that children aren't smart enough to match up to grown ups, they can certainly create images. Only limitations that come are the words to describe what they see. For some kids they might even see the garden as a dangerous jungle for them to explore. That is why it could be quite possible that what a kid describes can be used as figurative language that creates pictures for those who read. Even so young kids don't need large descriptive words to paint themselves a picture, and yet the picture they paint speaks a thousand words. Vice-versa, a thousand words could paint one masterpiece such as the lines in the story that talks about the winter days, where Joyce states, "When the short days of winter came dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown somber. The space of sky above us was the color of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns." (990). When a person reads these lines they can see what a child see and how precious their imagination can