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The torture of unfavorably hot and spicy Thai food has caused Albert to face the complication in his life regardless when he is at home with his family or at school with friends and teachers. That sounds pretty dramatic, but it is the real deal with the story. This is the story entitled “Hot and Spicy” written by Oliver Phommavanh. Oliver wrote a common sense story which captures perfectly a scope of what is typical inside today’s world that is extremely amusing while reading it. The author…

Matthew Vo IB HL English IV Johnson 23 October 2017 Analysis of Soap Suds In this short poem, a man is portrayed thinking back about a charming youth memory. After quickly remembering this experience he all of a sudden comes back to the present, apparently beset by what he recollects. In Soap Suds by MacNeice, he portrays the man's movement through a striking tactile ordeal of a youth memory to at last demonstrate that his adolescence is gone even with harsher substances of growing up. In…

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (158). “Araby” is a story of initiation, which allows us to recognize that the short story, will without a doubt include a valuable life lesson. This story tells a story about a young boy who believes he has fallen in love with a girl who he has never really had a conversation with and has eventually created an image of her in his head that is unrealistic and foolish.…

In James Joyce’s stories “Araby” and “The Dead”, both main characters fight deep inner battles that drive them to feel alienated. Alienation is depicted through the stories in different forms, spanning from the depiction of weather to the description of a neighborhood. Both characters have different manners in handling their inner battle. In Araby, the unnamed character is filled with anguish and retreats into the darkness of his thoughts. On the other hand, Gabriel feels himself becoming one of…

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…

In the short story, “The Dead” by James Joyce, he gives a brief insight at Gabriel’s character. There are three aspects revealed from Gabriel which are no remorse, curiosity, and pity towards the other character. The aspects revealed are not the common ones, or the aspects any coherent person in love suffering from the death of a loved one would feel. Instead, they were cold and almost as if he had no feelings for the person he had married. The techniques used were motif, point of view, and…

James Joyce’s short story “Eveline” and “A letter home from an Irish Immigrant” are both stories about women from Ireland who have or who may make a drastic change in their lives. “Eveline”, is a story about a young girl from Ireland, a girl who works in a small shop to support her family and has to choose between what she considers a bad life in Ireland or a chance to find love. After her mothers death all she had left was her brother and father. Eveline’s father was a drunk and brutal to her…

While both narrators in Araby an adolescent who doesn’t know how to act on romantic feelings and in cathedral an adult of limited awareness to blindness, lack of insight to other people feeling are both considered blind but However, their eyes were opened through an epiphany where the Araby narrator realizes that buying a gift for the girl will not win her love and the cathedral narrator is able to see beyond that life is not just about the physical disability and broadens his understanding and…

In the essay “Araby,” James Joyce uses a grown man looking back on his life, when he was a young man, as his narrator. Reflections on his loneliness, the oppression caused by his church and confusion about his feelings from being attracted to a girl are scattered throughout the story. There are many references that speak of being lonely in this essay. The second sentence of the first paragraph sets the theme for the story. “An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached…

Throughout “Araby” the boy experiences obstacles that most people would doubt while attempting to go to the bazaar to buy Mangan’s sister a gift. These hindrances should have caused the boy to question his quest, but instead of doubting himself, and his adoration towards Mangan’s sister, he perseveres through his quest single-mindedly. In “Araby”, James Joyce reveals the ignorance of the boy through his journey to the bazaar by demonstrating his unwillingness to doubt his quest and his adoration…