Araby

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Araby

• Puppy Love, First Shopping Experience, First
  Encounter with Adults
• Discussion

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Outline

• 0. You and Araby
• The Boys Language Image Symbol
• Dialogue or Thought Bubbles
• Mangans sister, etc.
• 3. Staging and Adaptation

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Have you had any experience similar to that of
Araby?

• Puppy love
• Mixture of sentiment
• First Shopping Experience
• First Negative Encounter with Adults
• If so, what makes your experience less
  frustrating than the boys?

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1-2 Figurative Language

• Image, Metaphor and Symbol

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Language in Setting (1) images of enclosure,
darkness and decay dead religion

• North Richmond Street blind, expressionless
  and imperturbable.
• The priests room musty air, littered useless
  papers, The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout
  Communicant, and The Memoirs of Vidocq.
• I liked the last best because its leaves were
  yellow.
• the backyard rusty bike-pump, wild garden with
  an apple tree

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Language in Setting (2)light in darkness,
femininity

• Mangans sister
• Railroad and the street scenes
• The bazaar

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The Boys Love -- Mangans Sister

• Images of light vs. browness (pars. 3, 10 vs. 4,
  15). Why?
• She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the
  light from the half-opened door. . . . Her
  dress swung as she moved her body, and the soft
  rope of her hair tossed from side to side.
• I kept her brown figure always in my eye
• the brown-clad figure cast by my imagination

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3-4 Characters Narration, Dialogue Thought
Bubbles

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Characters The Boy

• par 5-6 ?3rd-person narration thought bubble.
  (confusing his religious sentiment with the
  romantic) (film chap 5-6)
• par 10, 16 ? Dialogue between the boy and
  Mangans sister par 16, when he waits for his
  uncle. (film chap 7
• Par 25 ending Dialogue Narration Thought
  Bubbles
• Note Thought Bubble

Too late . Dont forget your mission.
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The Boy his puppy love

• Stands by the railing when seeing or talking to
  her.
• Possible Readings of Mangans sister
• She is unaware of his adoration
• She is limited by her environment which is a
  mixture of religious devoutness and materialism.
  

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The boys emotions religious images

• Par 5 In the market, he imagined that he bore
  his chalice safely through a throng of foes.
• Speaks of her names in strange prayers and
  praises he does not understand, his eyes full of
  tears.
• Par 6 At the priests room All his senses
  seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling
  that he was about to slip from them, he pressed
  the palms of my hands together until they
  trembled, murmuring O love! O love! many times.
  ? religious devotion and ecstasy?

You are my sunshine!
O Love! O love!
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5-6 Staging and Creative Adaptation

• 1. How would you present the market place, the
  priest room, and/or the bazaar?
• 2. Can it be a story happening in Taiwan or
  where you are from? How will the setting be
  changed? (Setting ? commerce, religion and
  politics)