Blog Post #5

Recently in Mr. Allen's class we were asked to highlight the light and dark words in Araby. I highlighted glow, gazed and lamps for light words. And for dark words I highlighted cold, blind and brown. Is there a specific pattern to these terms in paragraph 1 and 3?? No, I don't think so. Throughout the story of Araby we see the narrators emotions shift a lot. Does the distinct difference of light and dark mean something? Yes. It is the clear distinctions between all the battles we through in life. Nobodies life is perfect, we have our ups and we have our downs. In the end of the book the boy ends in darkness and I wonder if James Joyce did that on purpose. In this blog post as you can see I have asked a lot of question and this story just makes me wonder about all the different changes that Joyce did, and why. I believe the story ends in darkness to show where the boy is in life and how when the book ends he never finds his happiness.