【正文】 ne citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations where appropriate. (February 2020) Araby Author James Joyce Country Ireland Language English Genre(s) Short story Published in Dubliners Publication type Collection Media type Print (Hardback) Publication date 1914 Preceded by An Encounter Followed by Eveline Araby is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. Contents [hide] ? 1 Plot ? 2 Characters ? 3 Setting ? 4 Themes ? 5 Romantic elements ? 6 Media adaptations ? 7 Footnotes ? 8 References ? 9 External links [edit] Plot The unnamed protagonist in Araby is a boy who is just beginning to e into his sexual identity. Through his firstperson narration, we are immersed at the start of the story in the drab life that people live on North Richmond Street, which seems to be illuminated only by the verve and imagination of the children who, despite the growing darkness that es during the winter months, insist on playing until [their] bodies glowed. Even though the conditions of this neighbourhood leave much to be desired, the children’s play is infused with their almost magical way of perceiving the world, which the narrator dutifully conveys to the reader: “ Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and bed the horse or shook music from the buckled harness. ” [1] But though these boys career around the neighbourhood in a very childlike way, they are also aware of and interested in the adult world, as represented by their spying on the narrator’s uncle as he es home from work and, more importantly, on Mangan’s sister, whose dress “swung as she moved” and whose “soft rope of hair tossed from side to side.” These boys are on the brink of sexual awareness and, awed by the mystery of the opposite sex, are hungry for knowledge. On one rainy evening, the boy secludes himself in a soundless, dark drawingroom and gives his feelings for her full release: I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: O love! O love! many times. This scene is the culmination of the narrator’s increasingly romantic idealization of Mangan’s sister. By the time he actually speaks to her, he has built up such an unrealistic idea of her that he can barely put sentences together: “When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused that I did not know what to answer. She asked me if I was going to Araby. I fet whether I answered yes or no.” But the narrator recovers splendidly: when Mangan’s sister dolefully states that she will not be able to go to Araby, he gallantly offers to bring something back for her. The narrator now cannot wait to go to the Araby bazaar and procure for his beloved some grand gift that will endear him to her. And though his aunt frets, hoping that it is not “some Freemason affair,” and though his uncle, perhaps intoxicated, perhaps stingy, arrives so late from work and equivocates so much that he almost keeps the narrator from being able to go, the intrepid narrator heads out of the house, tightly clenching a florin, in spite of the late hour, toward the bazaar. But the Araby market turns out not to be the most fantastic place he had hoped it would be. It is late。 he goes on a quest, one not so different from those knights embarked upon in the name of Ideal Love, to procure a gift worthy of his Beloved. When he fails in his quest, he sees the world for what it is, and thus takes his first steps into adulthood. Ironically, it is at this moment when he enters the adult world that we can expect his growth in many ways to cease. Before, when he was simply a boy playing with other boys, he was able to tease magic from the mundane actions of others and the monochrome environs of North Richmond Street。,: “the quest is suc cessful because it leads to vision and epiphany: ing to some understanding of oneself. [edit] Setting The details of Araby are immensely important in setting the mood。 the life of the mind versus poverty, both physical and intellectual。s father, and may be seen as a prototype for Stephen Dedalus of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. The scorn the narrator has for his uncle is certainly consistent with the scorn Joyce showed for his father, and the lack of good parents is pertinent.[citation needed] Robinson Crusoe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Robinson Crusoe (disambiguation). Robinson Crusoe Title page from the first edition Author Daniel Defoe Illustrator unknown Country England Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher W. Taylor Publication date April 25, 1719 Media type Print ISBN N/A Followed by The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque。s island were probably based on the Caribbean island of Tobago, since that island lies a short distance north of the Venezuelan coast near the mouth of the Orinoco river, and in sight of the island of Trinidad.[1] It is also likely that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail39。s island, aka Island of Despair, showing incidents from the book Crusoe (the family name transcribed from the German name Kreutznaer or Kreutzn228。 later, Crusoe is befriended by the Captain of a Portuguese ship off the western coast o