UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMÁ

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FINAL ASSIGNMENT

REDELIO MENDOZA
STUDENT

10-711-834
I.D. Number

PROFESSOR

GUERRERO ORLANDO

Araby

SUBJECT

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER 2020

August 8th, 2020

Questions
1. Mention two characters.
 The young boy: the boy who lives with his aunt and uncle
and he develops a crush on his friend Mangan's sister.
 Mangan's sister: she lives in the house directly across from
the young boy.

2. Mention two themes.

 The loss of innocence, the boy experiences emotional

growth. Changing from an innocent young boy to a
disillusioned adolescent.
 the catholic church’s influence to make Dublin a place of
asceticism where desire and sensuality are seen as immoral

3. Mention two foreshadowing.

 It says that the street is blind. It is a foreshadowing because

the young boy was blind in love
 The young boy cannot go back to his childish dream, there
is another foreshadowing

4. Mention two biblical allusions.

 The apple tree is reminiscent of the Garden of Eden, when

the boy entered the bazaar, he heard the people counting
money.
 Another biblical allusion at the bazaar refers to two jars
standing by a booth. Joyce compares the jars to “eastern
guards”, this is an illusion to Genesis 3:24.

5. Mention two characteristics of the process of initiation.

  It is a short story, it is an episode. What happened to the
boy was an episode in his life.
 The boy or girl is initiated in some way. In the past, they did
not know anything about life.

6. Mention two conflicts.

 Man against himself: he is a young man who seems unable

to find his way in the world. He thinks he is in love with a
girl, but it's just an obsession and wants to get her a
present.

 Man against Man: The world around him is not as he sees it.
The young boy is isolated from reality and is alienated from
his home town.

7. Mention two symbols.

 The silver bracelet, the girl has a silver bracelet. It is

symbolic of money
 The railing is a fence. The fence is a symbol of the
difficulties involved in making the transition from
adolescence to maturity.

8. Mention two ironies.

 North Richmond Street: it is the middle and low class, so

the people who live in the north are not rich,
 The other irony is that he goes to the bazaar without
money, he went to buy a present, but he has no money
because he spent the money when he pays to enter the
bazaar.

9. Explain the setting where the boy lives in.

  He lives with his aunt and uncle on North Richmond Street
in Dublin. He lives a rather typical life, playing with
neighborhood friends and attending school until he notices
the sister of one of his friends.

10. Explain the title "Araby”

 Araby is an ideal world, as far removed from the boy's daily

life as possible. This land of the imagination is mysterious,
untouched, something infinitely desirable. Yet it remains
nothing more than a fantasy. When the boy arrives at the
bazaar only to find that it's closing down he's brought
crashing back down to earth. His boyish infatuation with
Mangan's sister is also exposed as an unrealizable fantasy.
Araby stands for everything the boy wants but cannot have.
Ideal love is precisely that, and so cannot be achieved. The
boy's incipient romantic feelings are fantastical, far-off and
completely out of reach—just like Araby.