Your Learning Journal this week will focus on the APA In-Text Citation and Reference style. After reading the story, ‘Araby’ you will submit a one-paragraph analysis on your response to this story. To support your perspective on this piece you will include one quote from the story and paraphrase a small part of the story. You will include all proper APA In-Text Citations and References.
Through first-person narration, we are immersed at the beginning of the story in the dreary life of the people on North Richmond Street, which seems to be illuminated only by the enthusiasm and imagination of children, who are gathering during the winter months, playing “till [their] bodies glowed” (Joyce, n.d., Para 3). But although these boys make a career in the neighborhood in a very childish way, they are also interested in the world of adults. For example, the main character, the young boy, becomes interested in his friend’s sister. One rainy evening, the boy retires to a silent, dark living room and expresses his feelings to her: “I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: “O love! O love!” (Joyce, n.d., Para 6).
Here we can see how the boy started idealizing Mangan’s sister. By the time he talks to her, he has such an unrealistic dream of her that he can hardly form sentences. But when the girl mentioned that she could not go to the fair, he finally collected himself and suggested bringing her something from there (Joyce, n.d.). Now the narrator couldn’t wait to go to the Araby and make some grandiose gift for his beloved that she would like. Unfortunately, because of the circumstances, he was late. Most of the stalls were closed. Worst of all, however, was that his idealized vision of Araby was shattered, as was his idealized vision of that girl. Shame and anger grew within him, and he felt alone in Araby. (Joyce, n.d.).
References
Joyce, J. (n.d.) Araby. Retrieved November 17, 2022, from https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/1642476/mod_book/chapter/388735/ENGL1102.U1.Reading.James%20Joyce%20Araby.pdf