Joyce & the Irish
Joyce is the oldest of this many children.
What is 12 children?
The stories each feature a character who is plagued by this.
What is paralysis?
This is the name of the priest in The Sisters.
Who is Father Flynn?
This story includes a bazaar.
This is what the market place represents (at the start of the story) in Araby.
What is hope?
Joyce is considered a master of this literary technique which mimics the chaotic, continuous, and non-linear flow of human thought.
What is stream of consciousness?
Dubliners was published in this century.
When is the 20th century? (Published in 1914)
He is the young sailor who is meant to "save" Eveline and take her away.
Who is Frank?
This story features a "blind street"--foreboding the ultimate demise & loss of innocence.
What is Araby?
He is the character that says, "gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."
Who is the young boy in Araby?
This significant event occurs in 1922 in Ireland.
What is the birth of the Irish Free State?
These are the short stories which feature a child protagonist. Name two.
What are The Sisters, An Encounter, and Araby.
This is the South American city that contrasts the 'dusty cretonne' of Dublin. (Featured in Eveline)
Where is Buenos Aires?
This story features a face that was "truculent, grey, and massive with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur."
What is The Sisters?
This stains the priest's robes in The Sisters (representing his hypocrisy & loss of faith).
What is snuff?
This unlikely group sent aid to the Irish during the Great Famine.
Who are the Native Americans? (The Chocktaw Nation specifically)
Along with themes and symbols, each of the stories also features this key element.
What is an epiphany moment?
She is "like a summons to all [his] foolish blood."
Who is Magnan's sister?
This story reminds you to not go looking for adventure in Dublin. You may not like what you find.
What is The Encounter?
This is the food item the boy is offered, though he denies them, in The Sisters. (They are meant to represent his loss of faith.)
This is why Ulysses takes place on June 16th.
Why is to honor when Joyce met his wife, Nora Barnacle?
This is the 4th part of the sections that define the collection along with childhood, adolescence, and maturity.
What is public life?
This is where the boys in An Encounter plan to go when they ditch school, but never make it to.
Where is the Pigeon House?
This story features a trip to Corless's.
What is A Little Cloud?
This event marks the climax of Father Flynn's deterioration in The Sisters.
When the chalice breaks?