James Joyce is a very well know writer from the 1920’s, his family and teachers all wanted him to become a preacher, but he pursued in his dream of becoming a writer. In Joyce’s literature pieces. He innovates a plot, character, and language. This makes him one of the most challenging and distinguished writers of the twentieth century. He is well known for his work, Araby, this is a story of a young boy who wants to go to the store to buy the girl he likes, but when he finally can go he doesn’t have enough money to buy anything. This is the whole piece of literature summed up; but is there more behind just the plot? Joyce liked his readers to think about the mental messages of the stories, it’s not what happens, but it’s what he is feeling.
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Many of high school students, believe that their parents don’t truly understand what’s important to them, but the truth is that our parents were once our age and do understand what’s important to us. They understand that the school dance is important to us, but since they have grown they now see that it’s not as important as they, once too thought it was the most important thing. In, Araby, the boy wants to go to the mall to buy the girl he likes a gift, but he runs into many obstacles, one being the adults around him are just goofing around. He doesn’t understand why they won’t just hurry and let him go and get the gift for his girl, he becomes frustrated, which makes him think that adults don’t know what it’s like to like someone as much as he likes this …show more content…
It seems as if in this society everything is ruled by money, but is it everyone’s main priority, not only in our time period, but in just about every time period. The boy seems to feels useless after he has gone to the mall and then saw he wasn’t able to buy the girl anything because of the lack of money. And when he leaves the mall he then starts to thinking that, maybe money rules the world. If you don’t have any money then it seems like you can’t get anywhere or anything in life, he starts to think that he will die alone due to his lack of money. Which ties back to my second message, do women only like males for their
Many of high school students, believe that their parents don’t truly understand what’s important to them, but the truth is that our parents were once our age and do understand what’s important to us. They understand that the school dance is important to us, but since they have grown they now see that it’s not as important as they, once too thought it was the most important thing. In, Araby, the boy wants to go to the mall to buy the girl he likes a gift, but he runs into many obstacles, one being the adults around him are just goofing around. He doesn’t understand why they won’t just hurry and let him go and get the gift for his girl, he becomes frustrated, which makes him think that adults don’t know what it’s like to like someone as much as he likes this …show more content…
It seems as if in this society everything is ruled by money, but is it everyone’s main priority, not only in our time period, but in just about every time period. The boy seems to feels useless after he has gone to the mall and then saw he wasn’t able to buy the girl anything because of the lack of money. And when he leaves the mall he then starts to thinking that, maybe money rules the world. If you don’t have any money then it seems like you can’t get anywhere or anything in life, he starts to think that he will die alone due to his lack of money. Which ties back to my second message, do women only like males for their