Wolayat Tabasum
Voices along the Way
September12, 2008
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James Joyce’s “Araby” is mostly about a young boy’s felling particularly about his sexual. He feels an attraction he speaks to his female interest to his mind.
His female interest likes the Araby that she thinks it must be a good Bazaar. His attraction feelings encourage him to go there.
When he feels he loves someone, and trying to do something for her. he He was talking to her in his mind, and went to the bazaar because the girl whom he feels he loves her liked the Araby, he has been encouraged to go there.
An important theme in “Araby” is …the boy finally, searching his feelings; he finds something out about himself. “He says, I saw myself as a creature and derided by vanity and his eyes burned with the anguish and anger”. And And, he finds himself under control of something, which is his sexual feeling.
The boy began himself as a creature when he seees the Mangan’s sister and thinks that she is waiting for them. He realizes that it’s his vanity that makes think like this. here Here narrator says, “every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door”. Something was encouraging him to do so. He pressed the palms of h is hands until they trembled, murmuring: O love! O love! And then, he starts talking to her in his mind. The boy’s female interest tells that she is not able to go the Bazaar, and then h e decides to go to the Araby. Finally, at the bazaar he saw himself as a creature.
This story is about a young boy learning about his emotional, his feelings. He was under control of his feelings, and he saw himself as a second man, and got angry for his vanity.
This story brought me back to when I was 15 years old. I was thinking the same as the boy in James Jyoces’s Araby story. It remembers me when I thought I fell in love with a young man. The same thing happened to me and I talked to him in my min; however, I was not able to see him a second time. I was shy; I hide from him. I never met him. I remembered very well one night I cooked a kind of food, because in my mind he told me that he liked this kind of food.
I did learn that a feeling even if is a young boy boy/girl’s, could have an important m eaning. It can change a life. This feeling will be showing the people’s face as a mirror that who they are.