Araby Case

1Diogenes quoted, "I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance," specifying how people can live while having no problem towards their view of the world. 2This is presented in James Joyce's "Araby," 3where a boy starts to lose his innocence when he notices a young girl. This girl is his pure love that he protects from all evil intentions. 4With the theme of immaturity leading to one's discovery of a disappointing reality, Joyce uses the contrast of light and darkness to show an internal and externals boundary that is apparent. 5The author ends the story in darkness with the awakening of a boy to how different the world is compared to how he would have liked to see it. 6On the train ride and at the bazaar, he begins to unravel his feelings to himself, 7which concludes with the feeling of self-hatred after losing his young boyish ideals to a dark creature of vanity and self-gain.

8As the narrator embarks on his trip to the bazaar, Joyce begins to reintroduce dark imagery. For instance Joyce conjures dark imagery of a lonely isolated individual as the narrator. Loneliness is apathy of the human heart. 9As ignorance gradually recedes, people find themselves slowly becoming lonely as secluded, as he is during his ride on the "deserted train." To foreshadow the dark conclusion where the narrator experiences and epiphany maturing from the naïve child to a heart broken hermit.10 In addition, the deserted train acts as an analogy toward the life of the narrator. Joyce correlates how the narrator "remains alone in the bare carriage which the only patrons traveling to the bazaar are allowed, with the fact that the narrator is now isolated from the neighborhood children. Furthermore, Joyce exemplifies further dark