A Comparison Of Change In Araby By James Joyce And Alice Munro

While reading these wonderfully written stories by James Joyce and Alice Munro I found myself relating to the characters a lot. They both wrote about two different characters, but the same meaning was behind both, growing up, changing from who they were to who they will be. Even though sometimes change is not always good, I think it is normal for changes to happen throughout people’s lives. Because being able to accept the change, watching the world change as you do, can make you become the person that you 're meant to be.

First, change is normal and it is something that everyone goes through in life. But, being able to accept the change is what people can struggle with. That is what I liked about these stories. They showed the growth and change

He was so scared to talk to her, but one day she spoked to him. His coming of age moment was talking to a girl that he loved, and after he arrived at the bazaar he ended up not buying anything. “I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood” (Joyce 155). In that moment I think he was angry because the woman at the stall reminded him of the girl that he loved. “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity: and my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Joyce 158). She never noticed or spoke to him before this day and the woman at the stall was not giving him the time of day either. So he did not buy the girl something after all, he would not buy her

In Boys and Girls, Munro used exposition where she introduced the main character and the situation of the story. Next there was an inciting incident where she witnessed her father shooting a horse. Then there is the climax of when she let Flora escape from being caught and killed, this is where she had her epiphany and her eyes opened to who and what she was. The falling action and conclusion in this story is where her brother told her parents what she had done and to where her and her father realized that she is only just a girl for a reason for them to understand what she did. In Araby, Joyce used exposition where he introduced the man character and the setting of the story and the situation. The turning point is when the girl finally talked to the main character. The falling action is when he got to the bazaar all the stalls were almost closed and the woman treated him in a sense of duty and not to be kind. The conclusion is where he got angry at the thought of buying someone’s