Analysis Of The Stone Boy And Araby By James Joyce

Along with breaking big social norms and being able to mature and learn, these characters also change his or her’s worldviews after going through a life changing event. In â€Å"The Stone Boy† by Gina Berriault and â€Å"Araby by James Joyce, both of the main character’s view changed to viewing the world as harsh and terrible and viewing themselves as worthless. After Eugie’s death in â€Å"The Stone Boy†, Arnold starts to mature more so his is able to fill Eugie’s role in the family. Eugie had many jobs as the eldest son of the family that are now Arnold’s. The morning after Eugie’s death Arnold’s father comes inside and says that the cow, â€Å"...went up to the mountain last night and had her calf, most likely. Somebody’s got to go up and find her ‘fore†¦show more content†¦After going through the few stands left at the bazaar, the boy became quite enraged. He felt that everyone including God wa s holding him back from his dreams and desires. As he was â€Å"[gazing] up into darkness [he] saw [himself] as creature driven and derided by vanity; and [his] eyes burned with anguish and anger†(Joyce 5). The boy tries very hard to keep faith in God that one day he will bring his true love to him but as he keeps failing, that boy gets angrier. The boy keeps breaking the social norm specific to his society of being religious more and more because he believes that God is not helping him. He believes this because he thinks that God is supposed to help achieve all desires but God is not helping him right now. This leads him to believe that there is no God if he is not with his one and only true love. The boy used to be hopeful and positive thinking one day he will be united with his true love. But as time goes on and he is still alone, this leads the boy to actually mature and realize that he is worth nothing in the world. He starts to think he is just â€Å"creature driven and derided by vanity† and he has no worth. After many disappointments in the boy’s life he has just given up and accepted that he is worth nothing. Part of growing up is learning that in the real world, one is worth nothing. Life does have any special plans for anyone in life. This ideal was created because of the modernist