Ron Joyce

Ismaeel Olukoga Professor Baker ENGL-1302-50261 Assignment 1 “A & P:” Short Story Analysis John Updike short story “A&P” portrays the mind of a young cashier, Sammy, working in an A&P store while admiring and analyzing customers, but especially the three girls walking around the store in bathing suits. Ultimately their defiance of standards of the community affects Sammy strongly. Updike uses action, dialogue and…

1. Would you agree that Beckett’s Waiting for Godot perfectly encapsulates all the uncertainties of modernity? Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. The absence of a meaningful plot, of objective dialogues and of absolute certainty is the state of absurdity. Beckett utilizes absurdity to play around with the concept of existential nullity which saw man trapped in a hostile world. Human life is meaningless and this created a sense of alienation, despair and…

In the story “Araby,” the author James Joyce presents the feelings of a boy who senses a severe regret of not taking the chances to express his love, and how he ultimately becomes a victim of his own vanity. It is generally agreed that communication plays a significant role in improving human relationship. With that being said, some people refrain themselves from talking to the person whom they feel they should talk and start imagining that something wonderful will happen. For Instance, I once…

Lessons In Love You should really get to know your crush before you act like someone you’re not, because it may come back to haunt you in the future. According to “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, a country boy has grown a slight crush on the city girl next door, yet with him being a few years younger, he can’t help but to eye her from afar and gape at her beauty. In comparison with the other by the name of “Lessons of Love”, a girl has fallen for a boy who she thought would never notice…

The story of Araby introduces us to a young boy who is infatuated by a young woman. He lives in Ireland in the early 1900's and pursues his interest in a very traditional manner. He admires her from afar due to the fact the she is the older sister of a good friend. She is described as a beautiful woman who can do no wrong. Everything about her is perfect and this only drives him to pursue her further. He essentially worships her every move and desires the idea of the two of them to be together.…

Response Paper on James Joyce’s “Araby” Something interesting about “Araby”, by James Joyce, is that it usually takes the reader on an inward journey, where what is not said is usually more important than what is said directly. In this reading, the writer plays with the words turning this story into a metaphor almost in its entirety. As the story is written literally, this story would deal with a child who lives in a monotonous environment and embarks on a trip to buy a gift that promised to his…

A Fabricated Identity: Nora’s Static Character, and the Efforts made to Sustain a constructed Facade One of the most challenging aspects of living in large communities is enduring the pressuring demands of society, an unquestionable truth, even in the nineteenth century. Differing reactions to those compelling demands is a centrally discussed theme in the modern play A Doll’s House. In This play, Henrik Ibsen constructs a fabricated identity for his character by hiding her behind a facade that…

“A Doll’s House” is a play by Henrik Ibsen written in 1879. It’s a drama about a mother’s struggle with a bad lawyer who she struck a secret deal with to receive money for the sake of her husband’s health. However, she forged her father’s name on the bond a few days after her father had already passed away, and the story takes place years into her paying off this debt. The heart of the play is all a build to the climax of husband and wife where secrets come out and honesty is shared. It’s about…

Henrik Ibsen’s, A Doll’s House, acquaints an audience to characters that possess many unique traits which are a basis for the plot. Commonalities are seen between these character’s actions, even though their reasoning and motives may be different. These similarities go beyond just personality and actions, but delve into the underlying parallels that characters like Dr. Rank and Nora endow. One of the parallels that can be attributed to these two characters and happens to be a theme of this book…

represented by the religious allusions to express what love means to him. The narrator is infatuated with his neighbor Mangan’s sister, and he idealizes her throughout the story: “Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance” (Joyce 454). He is overwhelmed and obsessed by her that he pictures her in places where a person would not normally even think of romance. Her physical descriptions, which illustrate that he wants her, help in understanding his sexual attraction…