The Dubliners

Over the Bike 30232 Teawoo Lim Cars brushed past me as I rode on a gray bike. It was a bit awkward and scary to ride a bike right next to automobiles. However, having ridden a bike for a year in Boston alleviated my fright. Boston’s public bike rental system—Hubway—was well organized: bike lanes were lined on sideways so that cars and bikes could move right next to each other. Before I moved to Boston, I knew bikes were a popular means of transportation. Thus, the first thing I did after I…

Loss of innocence can be described as the psychological transformation in which an individual is exposed in a culture of agony and evil. The term “innocence” can also be interpreted as ignorance, or being sheltered from the reality of one's world. In some cases, innocence may be lost in one's life before it is meant to be lost; for example, a child losing their parents at a young age. The collection of short stories, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer, discusses, at length, how people can…

forward in life. No matter what she does, she finds herself paralyzed and stuck living the unfortunate life she believes she is destined. The short story, written in 1914, is the fourth short story in a collection written by James Joyce called “Dubliners.” Each story in the collection portrays a part of the life of a middle-class family living in Dublin, Ireland in the 1900s. “Eveline” depicts the story of a young girl, Eveline, who is reminiscing about her life and family and questioning her…

In one of the most iconic and famous books written by James Joyce known as Dubliners, there is a short story that also like the other short stories in the book ends with an epiphany. This short story is called The Dead and in the book there is a part where two characters have an interaction and through seeing this interaction there can be many observations made about the protagonist and the other character. The two characters that are in the discussion or interaction are Gabriel and Miss Ivor.…

James Joyce’s “Araby” is one short story out of his collection, Dubliners. It follows a nameless young boy and his love for his friend’s nameless sister through first person narration. There are many themes that this story addresses, but I argue that romance is the most crucial theme here. The theme of romance is spread by the boy’s idealization of Mangan’s sister which causes the contrasts of expectations and reality. As the story progresses, his idealizations falter and eventually he is fully…

Nature is one of the most powerful and mysterious forces of the universe that influences man greatly. Nature has always been an indispensable part of literature. To understand literature from all angles it becomes necessary for readers to see how nature has been treated in literature by various novelists. Nature occupies an important place in literature and the novel particularly. Nature is used by all creative writers to create the proper atmosphere in the novel. At times, nature itself becomes…

For years’ parents have told their kids that college is a must and that you have to do it, but in The Basement of the Ivory Tower has another thought about that. Which is Professor X that explain why he feels that college is not for everyone and shares his experience of teaching people that are just not ready for that level yet. So an individual might ask themselves am I that student, or is it really that necessary to go to college just too higher myself and in reality its getting me more in…

Religion in a subtle way, Joyce challenges the view of the world he once belonged to, to make one sense ‘Hell’ before they even deserved to think about such atrocities, and he makes a rebuttal that makes one question his views. In James Joyce’s Dubliners and story called “Araby” touches this topic of sense and religion, all too closely where he writes, “The former tenant of our house, a priest. Had died in the back drawing room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms,…

This then lays the alcohol-drenched groundwork for us to trace the development of Synge’s characters as they drink throughout the day. For the case of Christy, drunkenness inspires poetics in his chronicles. In Act 1, the rehashing of patricide is terse and bland; on his first glass of porter, he fumbles: “I never used weapons. I’ve no licence, and I’m a law-fearing man… I just riz the loy and let fall the edge of it… he went down at my feet like an empty sack” Here, Christy’s language is…

The twentieth century can be considered a highway in which the writers produced or reproduced various ideas not only in science but also in humanities. Some writers gave a birth to new ideas while the others reproduced the old ideas or themes and decorated them in a new mold. The significant theme in the twentieth century, particularly after colonization, which is widespread in literature, history, and politics, is the theme of exile. Nevertheless, the theme of exile is never born in the…