Can You tell me anything about the story "Araby" what is revealed in the epiphany?
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The story opens with a description of North Richmond Street, a"blind," "cold ... .. silent" street where the houses "gazed at one an-other with brown imperturbable faces." It is a street of fixed, decaying conformity and false piety. The boy's house contains the samesense of a dead present and a lost past. The former tenant, a priest,died in the back room of the house, and his legacy-several old yel-lowed books, which the boy enjoys leafing through because they areold, and a bicycle pump rusting in the back yard-become symbolsof the intellectual and religious vitality of the past. The boy, in themidst of such decay and spiritual paralysis, experiences the confusedidealism and dreams of first love and his awakening becomes incom-patible with and in ironic contrast to the staid world about him.\n\nEvery morning before school the boy lies on the floor in thefront parlor peeking out through a crack in the blind of the door,watching and waiting for the girl next door to emerge from her houseand walk to school. He is shy and still boyish. He follows her, walkssilently past, not daring to speak, overcome with a confused sense ofsensual desire and religious adoration. In his mind she is both a saintto be worshipped and a woman to be desired. His eyes are "often fullof tears," and one evening he goes to the back room where the priesthad died. Clasping the palms of his hands together, he murmurs, "0love! 0 love!" in a prayer not to God, but to the concept of love andperhaps even to the girl, his love. Walking with his aunt to shop onSaturday evenings he imagines that the girl's image accompanies him,and that he protects her in "places the most hostile to romance." Inthe mixed symbolism of the Christian and the Romantic or Orientalmyths Joyce reveals the epiphany in the story: "These noises con-verged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore mychalice safely through a throng of foes." He is unable to talk to thegirl. Drifting away from his schoolmates' boyish games, the boy hasfantasies in his isolation, in the ecstasy and pain of first love.\n\nFinally the girl speaks to the boy. She asks him if he is going toAraby. He replies that if he does he will bring her a gift, and fromthat moment, his thoughts upon the mixed imagery of the saintly lightupon her hair and the potential sensuality of "the white border of apetticoat," the boy cannot sleep or study. The word Araby "cast anEastern enchantment" over him, and then on the night he is to go tothe bazaar his uncle neglects to return home. Neither the aunt noruncle understands the boy's need and anguish, and thus his isolationis deepened. We begin to see that the story is not so much a story oflove as it is a rendition of the world in which the boy lives.\n\nThe second part of the story depicts the boy's inevitable disap-pointment and realization. In such an atmosphere of "blindness"-the aunt and uncle unaware of the boy's anguish, the girl not con-scious of the boy's love, and the boy himself blind to the true natureof his love-the words "hostile to romance" take on ironic overtones.These overtones deepen when the boy arrives too late at the bazaar.It is closing and the hall is "in darkness." He recognizes "a silencelike that which prevades a church after a service" but the bazaar isdirty and disappointing. Two men are "counting money on a salver"and he listens "to the fall of the coins." A young lady, bored withhim and interested in two men who are flirting with her, cheapensand destroys the boy's sense of an "Eastern enchantment." His love,like his quest for a gift to draw the girl to him in an unfriendly world,ends with his realizing that his love existed only in his mind. Thus\n\nthe theme of the story-the discrepancy between the real and theideal-is made final in the bazaar, a
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Idiot becomes a genius and then an idiot again.\n\nThe story of Flowers for Algernon centers on Charlie Gordon, a young mentally retarded janitor (37 years old in the original novella, 32 years old in the full novel), who volunteers to take part in an experimental intelligence-enhancing treatment. His progress parallels that of Algernon, a laboratory mouse who had been "enhanced" earlier. The story is told from Charlie's point of view and written as a journal, or progris riport, as he initially spells it, which he keeps as part of the experiment. Succeeding entries trace Charlie's ever-increasing comprehension and intelligence in the aftermath of the treatment, as he passes through "normalcy", and then reaches super-genius level. He becomes more intelligent than the doctors who invented the procedure.\n\nHe discovers both the advantages of intelligence and awareness, including his sexual-emotional relationship with his former teacher, Alice Kinnian; and the disadvantages, as he discovers that the people he thought were his friends had only viewed him as 'entertainment', and now resent his superior abilities. His courtship of Alice becomes turbulent and finally withers into misery when she too comes to resent his superior intellect, which lowers her self-esteem.\n\nYet, all else seems to be well, until Algernon's enhanced intelligence begins to fade rapidly. As Charlie himself confirms, the neural enhancement is only temporary, and he too is doomed to revert to his original mental state. Some say that Algernon's death is supposed to imply that the treatment will also eventually kill Charlie, but his own notes on the subject, dubbed the Algernon-Gordon Effect, say nothing of his impending death. He records his struggles to find a way to stop the decay until he realizes the futility of it all. The title's mention of flowers is a reference to Charlie's last request that "please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard...".
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What is this about???
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O Henry biography link below. The story of "The Gift of the Magi" is about a couple that love each other enough to make a huge sacrifice in the hopes of pleasing the other. They cared about their spouse more than themselves.\n\nA famous story of his, "The Gift of the Magi", concerns a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch; unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della's hair. The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since it was written. \nO. Henry's first wife, Athol, was probably the model for Della.\n\nMore on The Gift of the Magi in the link below.\n\nDo I like the characters? Sure! It would be nice to think that there are people who think more of others than themselves. The story line is great and the style is readable.
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I don't know yet. I have read it over, but not really studied it, and I am going to be watching a special about it tonight at 8pm EST on the National Geographic Channel. I do not make decisions about my faith until I know all the facts and have had ample time to think, pray, and do some soul searching. I suggest that any who are interested in gathering all the info necessary to make an informed decision watch the show and read the text.\n\n To the person above me still waiting for it's publication - you can read the text at the link below. Just click on the link, and to the right where it has the two download buttons, click the "download the entire English text as PDF."
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Its about an African American family. An abusive father and how he treats his family.\n\nQuick summary:\nCelie, the protagonist and narrator of The Color Purple, is a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia. Celie starts writing letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once. Celie gave birth to a girl, whom her father stole and presumably killed in the woods. Celie has a second child, a boy, whom her father also steals. Celie’s mother becomes seriously ill and dies. Alphonso brings home a new wife but continues to abuse Celie.
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Lazarus Child. it's less than 2 hours and I dont understand the story
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haha i just read that. \n\ni can kinda answer some of them\n\n1. it's a comedy. i don't have time to answer the rest.\n2. there was only 1 scene i knew had music and that was when Portia and Nerissa are singing when Bassiano is choosing a box. (Portia wants him to find the right one and he does) so i guess it's for want or soemthing?\n3. gold is one of the wrong boxes it says summat like "he who chooses me will get all he deserves" so basically whoever chooses it doesn't get the woman because they are greedy and thinking only of themselves. The second time might be where Shylock is so locked on to his worldly possesions and is planning to kill antonio for his money. I dunno\n4. So you know that Shylock and Antonio had a deal that if Antonio doesn't pay him by a certain day, Shylock gets to remove a pound of flesh closest to antonio's heart.There's justice versus mercy in the scene where Shylock is about to take the pound of flesh from Antonio and Portia (disguised as a man) first tries to get him to show mercy to Antonio and forget about their deal and Shylock refuses. Then Portia points out to him that he said a pound of flesh not a pound of flesh and blood so the tables are turned and Shylock is in trouble for deliberately trying to kill a man because taking a pound of flesh would definately kill him. And the justice is that for trying to kill Antonio, Shylock has to turn in all his possessions and become a Christian. I think anyways.
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Reviews and Commentary\n(http://www.petehautman.com/invisibleinfo.html)  \n\nLIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) \n\nSeventeen-year-old Dougie takes everything literally, lacks social graces and is a loner, except, perhaps, for his one friend, athletic and popular Andy Morrow. But readers know almost immediately that something tragic has happened in the recent past: ' Andy and I had some bad luck with fires when we were kids. We're more careful now.' Other students feel threatened by Dougie's disturbing behavior and react by targeting him with cruelty and violence, which only serves to escalate his descent into unreality, isolation, and obsession. The teen has been working for nearly three years on his model railroad set, using 22, 400 headless matches to build a bridge connecting portions of the 'Madham Line.' As his life deteriorates, this obsession and his nightly talks with Andy are the only things that keep him clinging to normalcy. He resists the help of his psychiatrist and hides his medication. Ultimately, he is forced to remember what actually happened on that fateful night. With its excellent plot development and unforgettable, heartbreaking protagonist, this is a compelling novel of mental illness. \n\n  \n\nHORN BOOK (starred review) \n\nGifted in math, and recognizably clever when constructing architectural models (he's building an elaborate railroad system in his basement), Doug reveals that it's human interaction he can't figure out. "I'm a quiet kid, pretty much invisible," he says in a precise, unemotional voice, as this unreliable narrator begins his story. Invisibility is Doug's rationale for explaining a range of rejection, from teacher irritation to peer scorn, particularly from pretty and popular Melissa Haverman, who is disgusted by what readers will recognize as Doug's stalker behavior. But Doug reports one near-perfect relationship, the one he has with his best friend, Andy. Gradually, however, that friendship is revealed to be not what it seems. There are secrets from their past that Doug won't discuss, and hints from their present life that skew his tale. Why is there a strange man in Andy's house? What fuels Doug's increasingly complex rendering of their intertwined initials? What medication is Doug refusing to take? Reading this psychological thriller is much like putting together one of Doug's railroad bridges: connections are being made, but the realities being built may be imitations of life rather than the real thing. The tension comes from entering Doug's private hell and learning what put him there. \n\n  \n\nPUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) \n\nThe strength of Hautman's painfully sad novel is the wisecracking but clearly unreliable voice of its narrator, 17-year-old Douglas MacArthur Hanson who admits, "I'm not only disturbed, I'm obsessed." One of his passions is "Madham," a town he's building for his model railroad, complete with a 1:800 scale replica of the Golden Gate Bridge. He's also fixated on a pretty girl who clearly wants nothing to do with him. And he's overly reliant on his only friend, Andy Morrow, a fellow junior who is the popular and outgoing yang to Dougie's outcast and introverted yin. Hautman expertly teases out the truth about a tragic incident that occurred "at the Tuttle place" three years earlier, a mystery that propels the story to its horrific conclusion. Dougie is as mathematically gifted and socially inept as the autistic narrator of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but he also has a sophisticated wit. During a lapse in conversation at one of his $95-an-hour therapy sessions, he observes, "We stare at each other for about $1.40." His self-deprecating comments and wry observations make his spiral into self destruction all the more heartbreaking. (One measure of how sympathetically the aut
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This was a very enjoyable book, I first read it about 15 years ago.  It is semi-autobiographical in that the author is a pilot and the narrator of the book is a pilot who meets a man with an interesting insight into the human condition and who appears to be a messiah.\n\nThe book is full of memorable lines and makes the reader contemplate life and why we are here.  I definitely recommend it. \n\nThe following link has a number of quotes from the book.
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Hey kewlchic1...\n\n I've just read the short story and I enjoyed reading about the miracles of brother Gómez in the city of Lima.\n The scorpion alluded in the title is mentioned in the last miracle of the story. One day, brother Gómez is visited by a peddler who, knowing of the brother's miraculous reputation, hopes to be granted the miracle of having loads of money. Brother Gómez grants him the miracle by transforming a scorpion in his cell into a scorpion shaped jewel. The peddler uses it to pay his debts and make money. At the end, he returns the jewel to brother Gómez and he brings it to life again.\n\nHope this helps!
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Summary \nThe speaker proclaims that he has been the victim of "strange fits of passion"; he says that he will describe one of these fits, but only if he can speak it "in the Lover's ear alone." Lucy, the girl he loved, was beautiful--"fresh as a rose in June"--and he traveled to her cottage one night beneath the moon. He stared at the moon as his horse neared the paths to Lucy's cottage. As they reached the orchard, the moon had begun to sink, nearing the point at which it would appear to the speaker to touch Lucy's house in the distance. As the horse plodded on, the speaker continued to stare at the moon. All at once, it dropped "behind the cottage roof." Suddenly, the speaker was overcome with a strange and passionate thought, and cried out to himself: "O mercy! If Lucy should be dead!" \n\n\n\nThere's more info on the site.
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The Pigman - Paul Zindel\n\nI have found 2 summaries for you to look at, via the links below. \n\nhttp://litsum.com/pigman/\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=1493\n\nThese links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions. A short extract is included as an example of what you can expect from the summary\n\nThe Pigman Summary | Chapter 1 Summary\n\nJohn Conlan and Lorraine Jensen begin recanting the tale of The Pigman by signing an "oath" wherein they declare that they will record the facts surrounding their acquaintance with Mr. Angelo Pignati. John and Lorraine are sophomores at Franklin High School in New York when they meet Mr. Pignati, and they share a few months of their lives in this book, explaining their relationships with each other and this special adult friend of theirs.  More……\n\nhttp://litsum.com/pigman/\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Here is the IMDB link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456960/ which gives you some information on it
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It is a thriller story involving secret societies, conspiracies, the Catholic Church, and the fictional "truth" about Jesus Christ. Here is the author's own summary: \n\nA renowned Harvard symbologist is summoned to the Louvre Museum to examine a series of cryptic symbols relating to Da Vinci's artwork. In decrypting the code, he uncovers the key to one of the greatest mysteries of all time . . . and he becomes a hunted man.\nDuring the course of the novel it is alleged that the Catholic Church is perpetuating a major, centuries-long conspiracy to hide the "truth" about Jesus Christ from the public, and it or its agents are willing to stop at nothing, including murder, to do so.
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I have no clue as to the story you've spoken of. \nIf you began to research, and have begun to read the bible in search of this tale.. why not continue reading the bible, and get the true answers you're seaching for. You may not even be aware of the right question.. but your answer awaits you, in God's word.
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It is a Christian legend. The Wandering Jew, also known as Ahasverus or Buttadaeus, was given the curse of immortality. Ahasverus, was either a porter in Pilate's service, or an officer of the Sanhedrim (an order of Jewish priests); in other versions, he is merely a shoemaker with a quick temper. \n\nWhatever his origins, all version of his tale agree that the Wandering Jew soon repented of his sins and was baptized Catholic. He grows old in the normal fashion until reaching one hundred whereupon he sheds his skin and rejuvenates to the age of thirty. The Middle Ages abound with sightings of the Wandering Jew, generally telling his story in turn for meager food and lodging, sometimes even undergoing tests of authenticity by local professors and academic figures. Encounters with the Wandering Jew occurred all throughout Europe - during the Middle Ages, there were sightings in Armenia, Poland, Moscow, and virtually every Western European city including London. \n\nBy the 19th century, sightings of the Wandering Jew were largely attributed to imposters and madmen. In the 1840's, he reappeared in New England, although this time only in literary form, in Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Virtuoso's Collection and A Select Party (both stories originally published in magazines but later collected in Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846). In both stories, Hawthorne departs from the traditional depiction of the Wandering Jew as a world-weary penitent and instead outlines more of a cynical, earthy figure. At the same time, Gustave Dore created a series of elegent woodcuts, The Legend of the Wandering Jew (1856), probably the finest portrayal of the traditional myth. \n\nI doubt if there is any truth to it. Read the FAQ below: