Read “Araby” (here). Discuss Biblical allusions that Foster does not mention.
Look at the example of the “two great jars.” Be creative and imaginative in these connections.
Think of a “baptism scene” from a significant literary work. How was the character different after the experience? Discuss.
Posted by: James Lynn
ReplyDeleteI'll be honest with you: I've never read the Bible. The only Biblical allusion I can see is to Adam and Eve, but Foster has already stated that one.
It is okay james Have a good christmas break
DeleteCool avatar
DeleteResearch.
Delete
ReplyDeleteThe usual allusions between the bible and life is the usage of the story to teach morals to the listeners of the story or the people who reads the bible for the story Araby it is about Innocence and Experience, these two morals are about the two things we have most of in life, innocence and experience and when it gets to the point where the two jars are introduced it is in the form of a test to see if the main character has innocence or guilt, he passes the test of innocence by humbly rejecting the offer of the woman made about giving him the two great jars and the experience made the main character even more so holy in the end of his trials, and he won the ultimate prize of his own recovery of innocence after the experience, even though inside he was furious.
Post By : Dalton Harmon
It was a hard piece to comprehend fully, I got the jist of the plot but not the entire full resolution big picture.
DeleteI though thats was the only one that really stood out for me, innocent and experience and that was just a hard story and you really had to see that allusion good job.
DeleteOne of the Biblical allusions in “Araby” is in reference to the parable of the prodigal son. Prodigal is a word meaning something similar to using resources wastefully. Time is the resource wasted in this scenario due to his daydreaming. The point at which he realizes he has wasted so much time and effort is when he finally arrives at the bazaar and has no interest in anything available. That point in “Araby” is the equivalent of the son who left finally running out of money and later on, returning to his father’s house.
ReplyDelete-JWG
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”
I didn't think of the prodigal son. That's definitely a good allusion to consider.
DeleteThe two relate well, but I doubt the boy would have a welcoming like the son. If anything, the girl would reveal her evil nature to him.
DeleteThat is a good analysis and I would have never thought of it, however, I would have to agree with Logan about the welcoming. But, not every aspect has to match and you did an excellent job linking the others!
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
DeleteI wasn't able to find many connections other than Adam and Eve, it's the only one I'm truly familiar with.
ReplyDeleteThe short story "Araby" by James Joyce contains numerous Biblical references. The story starts with the kid telling how the priests dies in their back drawing room. It goes ahead to portray the wild apple tree. This tree appears to not be important in the beginning but holds a greater meaning. The apple tree symbolizes forbidden tree that can be found in the Garden of Eden. The two fundamental characters, a guy and a girl, symbolize Adam and Eve. The young lady, whether intentionally or not, entices the kid into disregarding God. She only wants his focus to be on her. This is alike when Eve manipulated Adam into eating the forbidden fruit of the tree. In the end the guy goes and attempts to buy a gift for the lady. At the point when the time comes to make the buy he returns the coins in his pocket. He understands the young ladies plans were nothing for him, rather benefiting her. He finally realized what she had done, pretty much as Adam's were the point at which he confronted God. In spite of the fact that this kid did not meet head on with the Lord he met with the evil presence inside him.
Post By: Sofia Ricra
DeleteI also found the allusions between the narrator and his love interest and Adam and Eve. I thought it was clever how subtle Joyce was with the allusion to the Garden of Eden.
DeleteVery confusing story and I think you found a very interesting one but you described it in detail for anyone who was not that familiar with the Bible which is why yours stood out . Great Biblical allusion and I would of never of that.
DeleteGood connection, your last connection was interesting. I didn't really think of the confrontation, but now I see it.
DeleteAleigha
The connections you made are good, but they are very close to what Foster said.
DeleteI also found the connection with Adam and Eve. Great job.
DeletePost by: Alanie O’Dell
ReplyDeleteJames Joyce’s “Araby” is a story filled with biblical allusions. Some of these allusions were mentioned by Foster, like the two great jars symbolizing Eastern guards and the narrator and his love interest representing Adam and Eve. However, there are some that aren’t mentioned by Foster.
In Joyce’s “Araby” the narrator speaks of a priest having died in the back-drawing room of his home. This combined with other subtle references to the life of a religious person, like the name of his school being “Christian Brothers’ School” and his love interest going on a retreat with her convent helps readers come to the knowledge that this story has some biblical influences and ideas within the text that they should be looking for.
In the beginning of the story, Joyce’s narrator describes the street he lives on as being “blind.” This has a double meaning as well as a type of foreshadowing because in the beginning, the narrator was blind to the vanity that which he was centered around. However, by the end, he had come to realize and his eyes had been open. This is a take on a famous bible story where Jesus healed the eyes of a blind person and allowed them to see clearly.
The narrator also mentions a wild garden with an apple tree. This is undoubtedly representative of the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve betrayed God by eating the fruit from the wrong tree. Since the narrator is figurative of Adam and his love interest figurative of Eve, the presence of the garden gives readers that notice this a feeling of anticipation and temptation of the narrator.
Perhaps the most subtle reference in the story, the narrator’s uncle mentions the phrase “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Saying this after having come home from a long day of work and allowing his nephew to leave home, this phrase reminds readers of God’s mention in the Ten Commandments that the sabbath day is for resting and not working. Six days is enough time to work, and the sabbath should be used for rest.
Nice observations. I don't know much about religion so it was difficult for me to find allusions. These are very good.
DeleteYou did a great job on your blog post; it was hard for me to find allusions because I know next to nothing when it comes to stuff like this.
DeleteYou made some great connections. I just realized how Joyce uses the word blind to describe many things in the text. He may have been referring to the blind man, which is really interesting.
DeleteThese are great connections. You showed me a lot of things I didn't catch onto before.
DeleteReally nice observations!
DeleteReally good observations! I didn't know much things when it came to stuff like this.
Deletegreat job. I don't know much about this but you made some great connections.
DeleteThere are several biblical allusions hidden throughout Araby, such as the ones Foster stated. Foster pointed out the realation to Adam and Eve, along with the refernce to the great guards. There are more than just these two though.
ReplyDeleteOne allusion that I noticed would be the fact that a preist died in their home. Priests are people who are very knowledgable on the bible. Another allusion would be the name of the school that is located on his street. It is called the Christian Brothers' School. It has the word "Christian" in the name. These are the only allusions to the Bible that I was able to find.
I didn't think of the priest's death as an allusion, great job!
DeletePost By: Kayla Shannon
ReplyDelete"Araby" By James Joyce is full of Biblical Allusions. Some of those allusions were already mention by Foster, like the two great jars and their symbolization to Eastern guards.
One allusion that wasn't mention by Foster was getting into Heaven. In "Araby," Mangan's sister is basically worshiped by the narrator, so he goes and is on the hunt for the "perfect gift" so she will love him. When he cannot find this, it shows that there is no specific thing to get into Heaven, you have to work for it.
Another example is when the narrator says, "But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires." A harp, in the Bible, is what David played when he wanted to please the Lord. It is meant as something peaceful and pleasant. So the narrator says this, he is implying that he is a harp and her words and gestures were playing him in a peaceful way.
That's a really clever biblical allusion! I never noticed that while reading this short story. Good job on catching that.
DeleteGood job at finding similarities between the Bible and 'Araby'. There are a lot I didn't notice in the passage.
DeleteI didn't notice the harp reference at first, but that was really good. Good job!
DeleteAleigha
I never connected this with getting into Heaven, but it makes complete sense. Great job!
Delete-Piper Colangelo
I love the Heaven example!
DeleteI didn't think of either of these but both are excellent examples.
DeleteThis is fantastic!
DeleteThere are many hidden biblical allusions, one in particular I analyzed was the boy driven by vanity. He is constantly in search for a valuable object to give to his secret love as a gift. Just like Adam and Eve were tempted by the snake to eat the forbidden fruit even though god told them that's the one thing they could not have. Foster is driven by his love to make it to the bizarre in time to buy a gift only to find out the place was dark, guarded and disappointing. In this story Foster made the right decision to not purchase the jars because there were signs of a forbidden love. He then realized what was driving him was vanity and he passed the test of innocence.
ReplyDeleteYou brought up a good point. The dread in the bazaar really does relate to the world that Adam and Eve faced after the forbidden fruit.
DeletePosted by: Hannah Cribby
ReplyDeleteIn the book it starts talking about 'Araby' and how it relates to stories from the Bible. One of the things I found in 'Araby' that I believe also relates to the Bible is when it starts talking about "the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes" (Joyce 2015), which I believe is a reference to the garden of Eden Cherubims, but I've never read the Bible so I wouldn't know if that's true or not. In the book Foster talks about "two great jars" [...] [and starts comparing them to] "Easturn guards" (Foster 50); stating how it relates to the bible because they are "standing by the booth" (Foster 50). In 'Araby' it also talks about the jars being like guards and adds that the result of him not buying the jars was because he was being "driven and derided by vanity" (Joyce 2015).
I like how even though you don't know much about the Bible you tried your best and yes you were correct about the Garden of Eden and I also found the two Eastern Guards similar to the two great jars.
DeletePosted by: Caleb Costner
ReplyDeleteThe allusion that I understood was The Holy Grail. This is a metaphor for a quest of finding love, peace and happiness. This item is something that you long to have, but it is very hard to receive. You can relate this to the narrator's quest to win the sister's heart.
In biblical term this relate to our quest to find God. To find his everlasting love and peace. Even though He is not tangible, we long to have a perfect relationship with him. We know He excise because the Bible tells us that He is the creator of Heavens and the Earth. In Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the Heaven's and the Earth."
I didn't think about this, good examples
DeleteNice observation. I would never have think about it until you brought it up.
DeleteAt the very end we greeted with motives of vanity; to me, the obscure Biblical story of Zaccheaus comes to mind. He was very greedy tax collector who, more often than not, over charged people for what they owed. After a confrontation with Christ, he realized the error of his ways. Zaccheaus was greeted by light, but our boy here was greeted by darkness. While these methods seem like two scales of good and evil, they both corrected the ideas of the people by showing the truth that there is emptiness in darkness and greed. What is jar? A jar is a jar. A jar by itself is jar; which of course, makes it empty. The boy perused the jar which could have mirrored the emptiness inside of him that he wanted to fill. Would a a gift of jar fill the void in him completely? No, it would not; money does by happiness, and so he is taught a jar cannot fit the lock to happiness.
ReplyDeleteCould a dead a priest be a semblance of Jesus? His crucifixion was a memorable like the unorthodox, the priest's simple death of age in the drawing room. Not to mention he left behind several books that could relate to the teachings Christ left behind after death. An apple tree sits in the back yard. Our priest may have planted this to feed his fellow brethren, so why not represent the fruits of the spirit? A stretch it may be, but the Bible says that to be our best we need the fruits of the spirit; maybe fruit in the tree shows this. Finally, rusty bicycle pump is left behind, and Jesus was impaled by nails of similar material. Since he walked for the three risen days with holes in his hands, we can assume that the nails were left behind. Over time metals rusts, so would not it be too far to say that this priest resembled Jesus by teachings and remnants?
I liked your idea of the dead priest resembling Jesus. It would explain why the author mentions the rusty bicycle pump. The author would not mention something if it was not important.
DeleteThat was a good point of view. I can see the connection now that you talk about it.
DeletePost by: Tiffany Weresow
ReplyDeleteSince I am not familiar with the bible due to the fact that I've never read it and never intend to, it is difficult for me to pick out biblical allusions or references from the text of "Araby" by James Joyce. However, the allusions that I did notice and that stuck out to me consisted of two references.
The first allusion that I noticed was that the children, in the beginning of the short story, went to the "Christian Brothers' School." This school was obviously a religious one, judging by the name of it, and the school would hold religious values and traditions due to it being Christian.
The second observation I made was the mention of "The Devout Communicant," which is a work of Catholic literature if I am not mistaken. This somewhat confuses me since the boy in the story does go to a Christian school, I figured they would base all the religious books mentioned on Christianity.
As Foster and my classmates have mentioned, there are relations to "Adam and Eve," which I think was a purposeful act in Joyce's part. This story just seems to be a modified version of that story.
I believe that the "great jars" symbolized or represented guardian angels, possibly those that may be in front of the gates to heaven (as people have mentioned in other literature works). Upon seeing these jars, the boy decided not to spend his money on the girl. Although, since he did not purchase anything for the girl, he saw himself as a creature of vanity. This may have been driven by a guilty conscience, or possibly that the "great jars" were not guardian angels at all and possibly a devil in disguise, causing him not to spend his money and in turn making him despise himself?
These are just my thoughts on what the jars may pertain to. My perception may be off due to the fact that I am not familiar with religion, as I have stated before.
I like the connection with the great jars and the guardian angels!
DeleteGreat connections! -Kalynne H.
DeleteYou connected it all very well, great job!
Delete“Araby” by James Joyce is full of biblical allusions. Some were already mentioned by Foster, such as the man and woman’s love interest and how it resembles Adam and Eve.
ReplyDeleteIn the story a Christian Brothers’ School and a priest are brought up, indicating that it has something to do with Christianity. There’s also a time where the narrator talks about a flood in his heart, which could reference The Great Flood or Noah’s Flood in a way.
-Piper Colangelo
I didn't think of the flood as being related to Noah's Flood. Good examples for this post!! ~ Caleb C.
DeleteI really liked how you connected that story to Noah's Arch.
DeleteWould have never thought to compare the story with Noah's story.
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeletePosted by Maria McDonald:
ReplyDelete"Araby" by James Joyce shows many biblical allusions that prove that James Joyce was familiar with the bible. He used a lot of references to the bible such as at the beginning when he mentioned a single apple tree in the center of the garden, which is an obvious reference to the Garden of Eden. Right before, they mentioned a dying priest which is another piece of evidence that shows the connections to Christianity. The main connection, as already stated by Thomas Foster, was the man and woman, or Adam and Eve. Also, I saw a slight connection to "The Prodigal Son" with the way he fell but came back after realizing his mistake, the way the prodigal son ran away from home but returned after seeing he couldn't make it on his own. The two great jars served as guards to protect the boy from making a mistake. Although they failed, the way Adam and Eve failed in the garden, they helped the boy realize his mistake, like when Adam and Eve realized their mistake after eating the fruit.
Great connections I never thought about the prodigal son. Good insight.
DeletePosted By: Anna K-S
ReplyDelete“Araby” by James Joyce discusses the bible's Adam and Eve, it also mentions the apple tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden. In the Garden of Eden, Eve ate the forbidden fruit also known as the an apple, in doing so, Eve became unclean then she lied to God saying she didn’t eat the forbidden fruit, therefore, starting all sin. Although, Joyce's “Araby” discusses the Garden of Eden he doesn't tell the allusion of what happened after Eve ate the forbidden fruit and started all sin.
The allusion of what happened after Eve ate the apple and started all sin is God telling Noah to build an ark. God commanded Noah to build an ark because he was going to flood the Earth to get rid of all people due to the sin Eve started. God told Noah to put his family and two of each animal, one female and one male onto the ark. After Noah built the ark, he put his family and the animals on the boat. God seeing Noah was ready, made it rain forty days and forty nights, when it quit raining Noah sent a dove out to see if there was any vegetation available, the first time the dove came back with no vegetation, the second time the dove came back with a leaf, and the third time the dove didn’t come back because it found a resting place, therefore, Noah, his family, and the animals got off the boat. God swore to never flood the Earth again
Good example with Noah's Ark.
DeleteI didn´t think about Noah´s Ark. Great job.
Delete-Kalyyne H.
Kalynne Helms
DeleteI hadn't seen a connection with Noah's Ark but I agree with you.
DeleteThe only biblical allusion i can find in "Araby" is the Adam and Eve. In the passage, it mention the apple tree which is like the apple tree in the Garden of Eden and just like in the bible when Eve get Adam,who loves her, to eat the fruit with her.In the book, the girl wants the bazaar annd the narrator is willing to get it as along as it wins her heart.
ReplyDeleteThe "two great jars" in the passage represent the eastern guards, who God puts at the east end of the garden, to prevent anyone from coming in. In "Araby", the two jars means the little boy can't go back to his dreams after he got the bazaar.
Ling
DeleteJames Joyce refered to the Bible a lot in his story, Araby. One of the many was the Garden of Eden. the house was previously owned by a priest and in the backyard there was a apple tree in the middle of a garden. Much like in the center of the Garden of Eden there is an apple tree in the middle. Events that taken place before the Garden of Eden reference was about a young boy who focuses all his energy into a girl. The two have never spoken, but when they do, she wants him to get her something from Bazar. He is in Bazar and almost buys her something but then notices two jars. He rethinks his decision and doesn't buy her what she wanted. He rethought his decision because he thought about how the only time that she ever spoke to her was just to get something out of him. So she was just using him. Thanks to the jars, he would have gave into what she wanted him to do.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of Adam and Eve. The snake wanted Eve to take a fruit from the tree and eat it. The snake was known as the devil and did this probably because he didn't want God to succeed. Eve ended up did taking the fruit which caused Adam and Eve to be forced out of the Garden. If she would have nocited the the snake was only using her for his own selfish ways then they wouldn't have had to leave.
I also found the reference to the Garden of Eden!
DeletePost by: Grace Deaton
DeleteThere are some references to the Bible in "Araby," by James Joyce. The first one I noticed was that the boys attended the Christian Brothers' School. This is obvious evidence that the kids were in a Christianity based learning environment and that religion is common in their daily lives.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I notices that near the beginning of the short story, he mentioned the apple tree. This instantly made me thing of The Garden Of Eden and Adam and Eve eating the apple and being cast out of the garden. While there were many allusions and references to the bible, these are just two that I found while reading.
I agree with your connections to The Garden of Eden. Great job on your connections.
DeleteIt never crossed my mind about the Christian Brothers' School allowing the children to be going to a Christianity based learning environment. Maybe I didn't comprehend this part. Good job with this post!! ~ Caleb C.
DeleteI agree with all of these connection, good job finding them!
DeleteAraby is a popular short story, written by James Joyce, that is filled with many biblical allusions. Authors, like Joyce, use biblical allusions to enhance a reader's experience as they connect a commonly read book to their story.
ReplyDeleteIn How to read literature like a professor, the author explains the most prominent allusion of the story of Adam & Eve. He points out the similarity of plot, the loss of innocence, and different allusions, such as the two jars that represent Eastern guards.
Another bible story that is alluded in Araby is the story of Noah's Ark. In Genesis 7:6-23, the bible describes the flood that is sent out by God. This flood was to ged rid of all the uncleanliness of sin that was brought onto the earth. Joyce references the flood through the protagonist, as he says “at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom” (5). By referencing the flood that cleans the earth, Joyce is trying to say that the flood from the protagonist’s heart is trying to cleanse himself of the temptation of the girl.
The idea of cleansing is brought throughout Araby as Joyce references the story of Jesus cleansing his temple. In Matthew 21:12-13, the bible speaks of Jesus as he enters a temple and gets rid of all those who used the temple to exchange money through buying and selling. He says that the merchants are making the temple “a den of thieves.” This story is alluded when Joyce writes about two men counting money in the bazaar. Through this allusion, Joyce is suggesting that the bazaar is also “a den of thieves,” just like the temple before cleansing.
I like the allusion you have for Noah's Ark. I didn't catch that.
DeleteYour allusion made a lot of sense, I didn't think of that.
DeleteAraby, by James Joyce had many connections to the bible. The first one I got was the apple tree, in the bible there is a tree that Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit from, but the serpent gets them to eat from it. Next is the young woman, like the serpent/devil she wants the attention on her, not God and therefore persuades the man to sin, just like Eve got Adam to sin with her by also eating from the tree of life. In the bible the next part would be where Adam and Eve hid from God because they were not exposed to sin and ashamed. However, in Araby the guy goes to buy the girl a present, but then finds out the girl was not helping him, rather she had done what she had done for herself. Much like Eve wanting Adam to also eat from the tree, so that she would not be the only one to disobey God, not because she wanted what was best for Adam. At this point the guy does not by the girl a resent finally coming to terms with her motives. Now in the bible Adam and Eve after being exposed to sin are ashamed and try to hide from God, it does not work so God confronts them. In Araby the man is confronted not by God, but the devil inside of him.
ReplyDeleteI found the allusion too but you did a great job describing it in details.
DeleteI liked the allusion you had for the present. Good job!
DeletePosted by: Aleigha Letterman
ReplyDeleteIn the short story Araby there are many biblical references, but it also has a similar plot to the well known story of Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit.
In the story a word that is constantly repeated is "blind", and I do not believe that it is coincidental. This, I believe, is referring to when Jesus made the blind man see.
Araby is about a young boy, much like Adam, who wants to make a girl happy. The young boy mentioned an apple tree in the middle of the garden, which of course is the forbidden fruit. Also, there is a set of jars mentioned in the story, which I believe is referencing the Eastern guards.
This is a really good connection that you made between the two!
DeleteBy: Kalynne Helms
ReplyDeleteI am only really familiar with Adam and Eve. The story Araby uses words from the bible like, church, apple, garden, our lord, and many others. There were also two main characters that were a boy and a girl, just like Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were created by God and placed in the Garden of Eden. In Adam and Eve, God gives them all the food they could hope for. The only thing he asked for them not to do was to eat from the apple tree. Well, Eve tries to get Adam to eat an apple off of the tree even though God said not to and Adam ate the apple after Eve did because of the serpent. The serpent tricked her into eating the apple first then she took it to Adam. After they ate it, they knew they did wrong. So they tried to hide from God when he returned.
In Araby, the boy does pretty much the same thing. He loses sight of everything but the girl. He doesn't listen to what he has been taught and he would do anything for her if she asked. Not speaking to him but making him go get a gift for her. In The Two Jars, the jars stopped the boy from doing wrong. The jars were to make him realize his mistake just like in Adam and Eve. They realized their mistake after they ate the apple.
Good job on catching the biblical terms they used.
DeleteThe example of the two great jars is an allusion to when God kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. He placed two angels in front of the gates of the garden so no one could get in, just like the jars blocking the entrance to the woman's stall. There is also the boy’s “blindness” which is “cured” at the end when he realizes that he was “a creature driven and derided by vanity” like Adam and Eve's realization of their nakedness after they had eat the forbidden fruit. It also says that the whole street is blind, possibly meaning everyone one the street will have their own realization sooner or later.
ReplyDeleteIn the short story Araby, the boy can be a representation of Cain from the scripture. In the scripture, Cain, the farmer, is trying to win the favor of God by sacrificing his crops, but his brother, Abel, the shepherd, is trying to win God’s favor by sacrificing his prized lamb. When God gives more favor to Abel, because Abel did what he was told to do, Cain is left much like the boy from Araby, “eyes burned with anguish and anger”. Unlike in Araby though, we get the result of Cain’s anguish and anger when he kills his brother.
ReplyDeleteBy: Aaron N
In Araby, the narrator has many different biblical allusions. The first one I noticed was the priest dying and what the school was named and the fact it being located on the "blind" street. The school was called the Christian Brother's School and it's obviously related to the Bible in the way that it's called the CHRISTIAN Brother's School. I also noticed how it was referenced to as "blind" many times and this shows how in the Bible, Jesus has the power to heal the blind man by putting mud on his eyes and then telling him to go wash in the Pool of Siloam.
ReplyDelete-Laurie Ricardo
The only biblical connections I could make is Adam and Eve and the story about the blind man in the bible that Jesus had healed. I have not read the bible before so therefore I could not make many connections to this story.
ReplyDeleteBy: Haylee Franckewitz
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeletePosted By: Adison Costner
ReplyDeleteOne thing that I noticed when reading “Araby”, it's like the
story of Adam and Eve. I think that it is like Adam and Eve because in each story someone tricked someone. In the story Araby, the girl tricked the boy. It's like in the story Adam and Eve, the snake, the serpent tricked Eve into eating from the Tree of Knowledge. In the end the boy felt like a fool for being tricked by the girl and in the end Adam and Eve felt ashamed of what they have done.
I was not able to find many biblical allusion while reading "Araby", however, I did notice that the children attended the Christian Brothers School which I am assuming is a school for Christian males. Also, at one point at one point there were Catholic books on the bookshelves. Another thing that I noticed was that he walked into the room where the pastor passed away and he put his palms together and started murmuring. Just by using this information, I am able to infer that he was praying for the pastor in hopes that all is well in his afterlife.
ReplyDelete-Alex Salce
There are many wonderful references to “The Holy Bible” in Araby. One that is towards the beginning of the writing is the garden with an apple tree in the middle, just like in The Garden of Eden where mankind began sin. The two jars are also a major example because of course they are just like the guardians of the tomb of Jesus. Finally the rusty bicycle pump could represent a nail because of the shape and how it was rusty, the rust could also symbolise blood kind of like the nails in Jesus’s crucifixion.
ReplyDelete~Christopher Johnson
One thing that stands out to me is the mention of the garden behind the old house. That garden could be a comparison to the Garden of Eden, which is essentially a perfect place on Earth. Right after telling us about the garden, the author immediately recounts how the man who used to own the house was a very kind and selfless person. Speaking of perfection at that point is sort of suggesting that the garden itself is a symbol of that. Based on the Chekhov’s Gun phenomenon, we can assume that the author had a reason for mentioning the garden. If they hadn’t felt that it was an important aspect of the story then they probably wouldn’t have put in the small mention to begin with.
ReplyDelete- Sarah Macon
"Araby" By James Joyce is an story filled with hidden biblical allusions. When thinking of church and everything that i'm taught growing up as a Christian Catholic I know that vanity, pride and lust are bad just like when the boy is driven by vanity and the thirst of love like Adam & Eve were at the point in which the snake test them to find an way for them to sin. The only difference here is that Adam and Eve never passed the test and were banished from the Garden and were punished but The boy later realized his mistake and how he was being impulsed by the sin of vanity and recalculated his thought to live on an better life. -Stephanie Martinez
ReplyDeletePost By: Karmen Scruggs
ReplyDeleteI believe that in the short story Araby, there are a lot of biblical references and they aren't all that difficult to point out from my point of view.
One of the first ones that really stood out to me was the connection to the Garden of Eden. It seemed like they were referencing it when speaking about the garden within the short story. They spoke about an apple as well and that could be directly related to the apple that Adam and Eve ate from to gain common knowledge in the first book of the bible.
Biblical allusions play a major role in “Araby” by James Joyce.
ReplyDeleteOne of the first biblical allusions I picked out was the rusty bicycle that was by the tree. Bicycles remind me of children and in literature, children are often times used to represent youth and innocence. However, the pump is starting to rust so this could be seen as foreshadowing to the boy's innocence being taken by the girl.
The next allusion is when the boy is at the store and drops his two cents. This represented in the bible as a poor woman who donates all the money (two coins) that she has to the temple where Jesus was.
Post By: Cynthia Garcia
Never thought of your examples, great job.
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteRiley Kiefer
ReplyDeleteLooking at the example of the two great jars in Araby, I believe that it is talking about the battle between Good and Evil. There is so many examples of this in the bible. My favorite is when Satan was cast from heaven because he believed to be greater than God. He had the choice to be with God (Good), but he believed that because his wings and everything else about him was “so much better” that he should be God. Satan has tempted so many of the people in the bible and in the real world. He tempted Adam and Eve and he tempts me every day. Satan chose Evil, but I chose Good, and I know that no matter how much he tempts me, I never will choose Evil.
I am not all that familiar with the works of the Bible but I was able to see some connections. The only biblical allusion I can find in short story "Araby" is the story of Adam and Eve.In the book it mentions an apple tree which is like the tree in the Garden Of Eden. In the bible when Eve got Adam,who loves her, to eat the fruit with her.In the book, the girl wants the bazaar annd the narrator is willing to get it as along as it wins her heart.
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteBy Noah Wollin
ReplyDeleteThe story "Araby" mentions an apple tree which represents the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. In the bible, Adam and Eve went against the lord and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree. In this story, instead of literally eating the fruit he does metaphorically. The girl represents temptation and greed because she only wants but never gives, but the narrator gives in and eats the fruit.