When I was Thirteen, I couldn’t wait until I was sixteen so that I could drive. Once I was sixteen I couldn’t wait until I was eighteen. I wanted to be considered an adult. When I reached the age of eighteen, I couldn’t wait to turn twenty-one. I wanted to be able to drink and gamble, legally. I am now twenty-two years old, and I wish that I could be a child again.
I look back and feel that I grew up too quickly. I think the reason that I grew up so quickly, was due to the fact that I was friends with people who were older than myself. And just like the young boy in the short story “Araby” by James Joyce, I wanted to be accepted by someone older than myself. The young boy from “Araby”, wanted to be accepted by an older girl who he thought he loved. Although (in reality) the young boy does not truly love this girl; he becomes deeply obsessed with her. Which would have cost him his childhood; if it weren’t for his realization. Some people live their whole lives and never discover what love really is.
And the young boy from “Araby” hasn’t either. Communication is a vital part of loving someone, and this is something that the young boy cannot do. The young boy demonstrates this when he encounters the older girl who is his so-called love. “At last she spoke to me. When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused that I did not know what to answer” (Joyce 28).
The Essay on Young Boy Enemy Large Attack
Every fortnight I was faced with the taunting experience of retrieving the eggs and every fortnight the task became more and more daring. Each morning at Nonis (grandmother) house a war between the chickens and I emerged from the normally silent yard, a war that separated all good from the world and emphasized death, destruction and danger. Every morning at Nonis house the boy that I was turned ...
This shows the boys inability to communicate with the girl. He cannot even hold a simple conversation with the girl. When you love someone you have to be able to tell someone how you feel, or at least be Williams 2 able to communicate how you feel through body language.
Like flirting. If you do not, or cannot, let that person know how you feel, it is not called love. It is called an obsession. Most people obsess over things that they cannot have. One thing that the young boy cannot have is the older girl. All he can do is obsess over her. He obsesses over to the point that he is almost stalking her.
The boy illustrates this to us every morning: Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. I ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. I kept her brown figure in my eye and, when we came near the pint at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her. This happened morning after morning.
(Joyce 27) The boy is so obsessed with the older girl, that he starts to alter his daily routine. He goes through all of the trouble of waiting for her, but he won’t even talk to her. His obsession is starts to seriously affect his life. The boy demonstrates to us how his obsession is affecting his life when he is in a dark room, alone. “I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: ‘O love! O love!’ many times” (Joyce 28).
The boys obsession is starting to distance himself from other people, and it is starting to seriously affect his life. His obsession is starting to consume his childhood. You are a child only once.
When you mature; you are unable to retrieve your childhood. As a child nearly all of us start off carefree, and full of happiness. This was no different for the boy. While playing with his friends, the boy shows us his childish side. “The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street” (Joyce 27).
In the beginning Williams 3 of the story the boy seems to be a normal child.
When I say normal I mean that he was outside playing with his friends in a carefree manner. As the story progresses, the boy’s obsession with the older girl begins to grow stronger. The obsession grows so strong it starts to devour his childhood. He begins to no longer desire to play with his friends, as the boy illustrates while waiting for his father to arrive “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, I looked over at the dark house where she lived” (Joyce 29).
The Term Paper on Elementary, Middle and Highschool Boy-Girl Relationship
Is it too soon to talk about boy/girl relationships in elementary school? Of course it is, you say! Well, you may not want to hear about it, or you may choose denial over reality, but the fact remains that children are playing out the cultural role that they are being taught as early as 2nd grade. Therefore, the relationship between boys and girls at every school (Christian and non- Christian) is ...
He becomes almost totally consumed with this obsession, and it’s causing him to push people away as if he were a porter at Westland Row Station.
The boy would have been all alone like the priest; if it weren’t for his realization of his limitations. All humans have limitations. Not everyone knows what their limitations are, but the boy finally realizes his limitations. While the boy was at the Araby, he over hears a conversation between 2 older boys, and an older girl. While vaguely listening to their conversation, he recognizes that he cannot communicate in the manner that these people are. Also while listening to their conversation, he realizes how he is seen by older girls: “Observing me the younger lady came over…The tone of her voice was not encouraging; she seemed to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty” (Joyce 30).
He finally understands that he is only a young boy, and cannot verbally, or physically communicate at the same level as the girl whom he is obsessed with. He realizes that he does not truly love the girl.
After this consciousness, the boy shares with us how this realization made him feel. ” 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 31).
He now knows how stupid he was for letting himself become so obsessed. Knowing that he had let himself Williams 4 become so totally wrapped up in his obsession for the girl makes him become so angry with himself. Even with the anger, the experience, and the new found knowledge. He still has his childhood.
The Essay on Who Are Smarter- Boys or Girls?
A worldwide controversy is the notion of who are smarter boys or girls .Some people claims that boys are smarter than girls are in every aspect of life while others argue that girls are more intelligent than boys .Every type of those supports his point of view.. Boys are smarter because they are physically stronger, the first group maintains. Their bodies are capable of bearing hard works; such as ...
People say that life is a constant learning experience. The young boy learned a lot from his experiences. He learned the importance of his childhood, what his capabilities and limitations are, and most importantly what love is not. The boy went through a learning experience in his childhood that some people never go through in a lifetime. Williams 5 Works Cited Joyce, James “Araby” Literature: The Human Experience Ed. Nancy Lyman.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. 27-31..