Starting from Initiation V Comparison on Araby and Lift in a Small Courtyard
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The comparison of Araby by James Joyce and Life in a Small Courtyard by Wang An-yi is easily to start with the fictional initiation involved. The protagonists of the both, in the course of the story learn a significant truth that he/she did not know before. Both of them are led to self-understanding. By picking out the stories common factor V initiation, we can compare the two with a more detailed discussion. Identifying the similarities and differences gives us a clearer picture of how the two initiations are portrayed.
When we begin reading the two, we can easily find that first-person narration is used in both. The two narrators are talking about their own stories, thus tracing back to their own initiation and maturation processes. As initiation is the passage through knowledge to maturity, authors hope their readers to undergo the same process by reading in order to be inspired from the initiated understandings. Using first person narration can shorten the distance between the readers and the story world as the narrator is like a person next to you who is talking about himself / herself. The story is more realistic in such a case and thus the initiation is more believable and convincing as a human encounter...