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A 3 page paper which examines coming into adulthood and being betrayed by adults as seen in “Araby” by James Joyce and “Battle Royal” by Ellison. No additional sources cited.
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in ways that are positive, as well as negative. In James Joyces short story "Araby" and Ralph Ellisons "Battle Royal" we are given two different looks at coming of age,
coming into adulthood in a manner that is somewhat disheartening. In many ways these young men realize that the adult world has betrayed them and that the adult world was
not what they hoped it would be. The following paper examines this perspective as seen in both stories. Araby and Battle Royal
In Joyces story we have a boy who has all but immersed himself in learning that involves possessing a romantic ideal of life. He is immersed in literary works
and such that present him with an understanding of how adulthood is a wondrous world of nobility and honor, where men are men and life is good. He seems to
transfer this perspective on life to a girl he romanticizes about: "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. Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance" (Joyce). In Ellisons story
we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud because he has accomplished things
in learning and in his short life thus far. But, then he is thrown into the Battle Royal where he quickly becomes angered and fearful, without understanding why, at the
details and images of what is going on. He thinks, "I felt a wave of irrational guilt and fear...I felt a desire to spit upon her...she seemed like a fair-bird
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