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James Joyce's short story Araby tells a message by just reading the story but
the underlying messages are the real story he was trying to get across to us. They
used the light and dark imagery in order to show the narrators advance from
childhood to adulthood. There are many things that are not said but meant in the
readings.
In the beginning of the novel the narrator talks about how as a child he and
his friends used to stay outside and play until one of the elders would come out and
make them some inside for some reason or another. they would play in the dark
muddy landes, the dark ripping gardens, or the dark odoerous stables and when the
adults would come out they would hide in their shadows until they knew they had to
come in. So they would walk out in to the lights and into the house. It is almost as if
they are avoiding adulthood at this point. It seems as if they just wanted to play as
children forever.
They then show another advance into the boys adulthood by introducing his
first interest in a woman. When she was first introduced in the story she was a dark
figure defined half by light...