Transitions are moments of realization, learning and importance since it would be present in a person’s memory for years to come. Important and memorable moments in life will have an impact on people depending on the magnitude of the event. Particularly, in the short story “Araby” by James Joyce and the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes which present the themes of childhood and adulthood in different situations, and from distinct gender and age. In “Araby”, a young boy discovers how blind and innocence he was because of false beliefs. While in “Mother to Son”, a mother talk about how life have been for her. Both, Joyce and Hughes present and describes the transition from childhood to adulthood differently. Joyce story is more complex
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Joyce makes references and the use of Christian symbols to describe and explain the narrator’s feelings, to describe a regular girl as a nun and almost glorified as the Virgin. Also, it make reference to a typical garden as the forbidden garden spoke in the bible. Joyce gives a clear idea of how the boy feel prisoner by his religion and how the boy feel superior to his peer because of the new emerging feelings of love. The narrator makes a trip to a market which he names “Araby”, where the purpose of the trip is to buy a present for his love, Manga’s sister. In the journey to the market, the narrator realizes the mistake and how wrong he was about his feeling toward Manga’s …show more content…
For instance, Joyce presents a young boy that analyze and think about life very critical. As an example, Joyce mentions, “From the front window I saw my companions playing below in the street. Their cries reached me weakened and indistinct and, leaning my forehead against the cool glass,” (109). Indeed, the boy has a critical thinking and way of expression by saying that the laugh and voices of his peers where no longer of importance to him. The boy has started to see and think about life differently, more like an adult. The complex in the short story is due to the Christian vocabulary, critical thinking and analysis of the young boy in the story. As an illustration is, “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Joyce 111). Where the boy see himself as a different human being, but the interesting part is the complex vocabulary the young boy uses to describe his feelings and appearance at the moment. Hughes’ poem does not use so similar complexity or present any, the only complex word is “crystal stair” (559), which is describe by the mother and made it as reference to life. The word “crystal stair” (559) was only used twice in the poem and is not a difficult or complex word to associate with royal, easier way, cleaner,
Joyce makes references and the use of Christian symbols to describe and explain the narrator’s feelings, to describe a regular girl as a nun and almost glorified as the Virgin. Also, it make reference to a typical garden as the forbidden garden spoke in the bible. Joyce gives a clear idea of how the boy feel prisoner by his religion and how the boy feel superior to his peer because of the new emerging feelings of love. The narrator makes a trip to a market which he names “Araby”, where the purpose of the trip is to buy a present for his love, Manga’s sister. In the journey to the market, the narrator realizes the mistake and how wrong he was about his feeling toward Manga’s …show more content…
For instance, Joyce presents a young boy that analyze and think about life very critical. As an example, Joyce mentions, “From the front window I saw my companions playing below in the street. Their cries reached me weakened and indistinct and, leaning my forehead against the cool glass,” (109). Indeed, the boy has a critical thinking and way of expression by saying that the laugh and voices of his peers where no longer of importance to him. The boy has started to see and think about life differently, more like an adult. The complex in the short story is due to the Christian vocabulary, critical thinking and analysis of the young boy in the story. As an illustration is, “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Joyce 111). Where the boy see himself as a different human being, but the interesting part is the complex vocabulary the young boy uses to describe his feelings and appearance at the moment. Hughes’ poem does not use so similar complexity or present any, the only complex word is “crystal stair” (559), which is describe by the mother and made it as reference to life. The word “crystal stair” (559) was only used twice in the poem and is not a difficult or complex word to associate with royal, easier way, cleaner,