Literature paper

Please prepare these discussion questions on a separate piece of paper to hand in on Wednesday, March 20h.

“Araby” – discussion questions to accompany your reading:

1. Find a religious image and explain how Joyce is portraying the image in the story.

2. What does the boy realize by the end of the story?

3. Describe “Araby” as Joyce describes it and what it means to the boy.

4. What is Joyce creating by his contrasts between dark and light throughout the story?

“Eveline” - discussion questions to accompany your reading

1. Describe Eveline in as much detail as possible. What are the author’s explicit comments about her? What are her physical attributes, what does she look like? How old is she? Where does she work? What does she say and what are her thoughts? Where is she during most of the story?

2. What is the setting of “Eveline”. What do you think is significant about the difference between the locations in which Eveline actually lives and the one she imagines living in, that of Buenos Aires? Provide examples.

3. What is the tone ( the mood or coloring) of the story? How is this achieved?

Provide an example of this from the story.

4. What is the dominating idea or main purpose of “Eveline”? What do you think

James Joyce was trying to portray in this story?