Essay on AP vs. Araby - 692 Words

AP vs. Araby John Updike’s AP and James Joyce’s Araby are very similar yet very different in many ways. Each short story has a normal kid with an obsession over a girl. The big difference between Sammy in AP and Jimmy in Araby is just that they were raised differently and have different values. The way Jimmy talks about his fantasy girl is on a more religious level while Sammy in other words is kind of impolite about how he describes the three girls that walk into the market. From the narrator’s point of view in each story to the use of imagery and the main characters motivation, each story has multiple points of comparison to compare and contrast. From the narrator’s point of view in the short story AP, it’s told from the actual†¦show more content†¦The main characters motivation in both of the short stories is exactly the same. Sammy wants to impress the three girls by standing up for them and quitting his job right after his manager just kicked them out while Jimmy wants to impress Mangen’s sister by buying her something in hopes that it will win her love. Each character does something in order to try to get the girls attention. The apparent goal that Sammy and Jimmy are trying to accomplish is winning over the girls love. Sammy definitely had some sympathy towards the three girls that got kicked out of the market which was part of the reason why he quit his job while Jimmy feels a little bit of empathy towards Mangen’s sister because she can’t go to the bazaar so he says, â€Å"If I go, I said, I will bring you something,† (page 329). Both short stories have the same initial motive behind them which is getting a girls attention which is almost seamlessly impossible in the kid’s eyes to do. Sammy and Jimmy both epically fail while trying to get the girls attention. The epiphany in AP is when Sammy realizes how dumb of a mistake he made by quitting his job and because of his dumb decision his life is going to get a lot harder. Jimmy on the other hand realizes his epiphany when he figured out that he wasn’t going to be able to get Mangen’s sister anything and his stay at the bazaar was now useless. Although each short story has a completelyShow MoreRelatedAraby vs. Going to the Moon Essay1130 Words   |  5 PagesAraby Vs. Going to the Moon By: Heba Haidar Humans have always been curious beings. Their curiosity has brought about new experiences, and new knowledge that helped in the process of their evolution. Human children grow up and learn about the world by utilizing their sense of curiosity to gain new experiences in life. This curiosity that is built into us at birth is what drives us to be drawn to the unkown. Araby, by James Joyce and Going to the moon, by Nino Ricci are both short storiesRead MoreComparing Islam And Radical Islam2425 Words   |  10 Pagesbe referencing is from a post on the website, â€Å"The Bible vs. The Quran† by Abdullah Al Araby (2002), which contests the integrity of the Qur’an as opposed to the Judeo-Christian Bible and will then focus on the ethical differences between the two, as interpreted by both the Qur’an and the Bible. Araby (2002), as well as other internet sources, claim that â€Å"the Quran may have been tampered with. Nobody knows where the original Quran is.† A raby (2002) also asserts, â€Å"Uthman, the third Caliph (successorRead MoreAmerican Literature11652 Words   |  47 Pagesexperiencing the past and the present at the same time, this may mean that his memories of the past are so vivid that the past seems to be existing in the present. For example, A poem should be palpable and mute/As a globed fruit (Archibald MacLeish, p. 650 of Structure, Sound and Sense). This line expresses a paradox because poems are constructed through words--why should a poem be silent? A poem has the silence of a globed fruit because the poem should be able to communicate the non-verbal aspects