Araby

In Araby i can kind of relate to the tennager in the story because he represents innocents.  Well what about his innocents represents me, they ask?  When I say innocents i am speaking on his ignorance to the world.  He sees the world through his imagination, and through his imagination it guides around the desolate streets from which he is trapped to.  Without imagination, as a child growing up by yourself and with only a handful of freinds, it is extremly hard to cope with reality especially when everything around you is in turmoil and so pale.  The tennager in the story has feed his fantasy with these illustrations that have been left by this deceased preacher.  He takes the books and uses them as a manuscipt, sort of a blueprint to his own fantasy his own "illusion" about how things were suppose to be.  This is basically the fairy tale that he wants to believe that everything in his mind is pure and everybody is nice when they are not.

Before he even speaks to this girl he builds her up to be some sort of a goddess, and shareing devininty with God himself.  She pure in aspect to this kid.  Even when conversing with her for the first time he is left almost speechless when he actually comes into to contact with her.  So from this picture you can see that this kid has really buying into the preachers writings and has stuck to this alternative world of fantasy, and he plays the role well.  He plays it so well until the end.  He plays the role of the knight and the girl without even knowing is casted to be his queen.  The love struck youth even goes as far to speak in midevil terms during the middle of the story calling moments "enchanted" and using words like "chalice".  To me the kid is really acting in the wrong movie, because his surrouding never play off on his imagination.  For example when he gets to the market place the girl greets him as an obligation instead of actually caring as I put it.  This tears him apart because he expects everybody to be nice and over joyed.

When I see that he frustrated because of that you can obvioulsy tell that this child in my view knows nothing of the world and that his imagination even sometimes jades him from reality completly.  He is left torn apart and destrut about the whole affair.  He does not care about love anymore and he's more hopless than ever.  He starts to see the world for what it is and I feel sorry for him because his imagination is what keeps him alive.  I mean even the start of the story the setting is descirbed as a real dull environment, and I think that "love" is just a crying out for change, because he shuts his surroudings out of his mind.