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Activity James Joyce - PRÁCTICAS

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Introducción a la Literatura Inglesa del Siglo XX: Poesía, Teatro y Novela (31101219)

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STUDENT’S NAME: Irene Martínez Perez

GROUP GT 4

Title The title is Dubliners.

Author The author is James Joyce.

Type of work

& chapter, section (if any)

It is his only book of stories, and it has a realistic style that

attempts to reflect what he called the “paralysis” of his city.

This would be a reflection of the author's negative

experience in his youth.

I have chosen the first story that it is called Sisters.

Date of publication It was originally published on August 13, 1904 in The Irish

Homestead Journal, then revised and finally appeared in

Dubliners, a collection of short stories published in 1914.

Theme. Can you state it in

a single sentence?

The theme of this story is death and the process of

remembering the dead.

Plot (a few lines)

(Please describe the way

the events are organized)

After a boy learns that his friend, Priest Flynn, has died, the

boy visits Flynn's house with his aunt, where they pray with

Flynn's sister, Nannie. They talk about their life with their

other sister, Eliza, who remembers Flynn's increasingly

strange behavior before his death.

Narrator

(What effect does the

narrator’s point of view

have on your

understanding of the

story?)

The narrator is a boy who has learned of the death of the

priest Flynn.

The fact that the narrator is a child makes him feel sad to see

the things that he has gone through in his childhood.

Characters

(Main character,

antagonist, secondary

characters, etc.)

The main character: The little boy who is friend of Priest

Flynn.

The secondary characters:

- Father Flynn who dies. Father Flynn's ambiguous presence

in the story as a potential child molester.

- Old Cotter who informs the narrator of the death of the

priest Flynn. Old Cotter expresses concern about the priest's

intentions with the narrator, but avoids making any

statements.

- The sisters of Flynn.

Setting (time and

location). How important

are these elements in the

story?

In Dublin, Ireland in the early 1900s.

The setting and the date are very important data since it

shows and teaches us where this book is made and takes us a

little deeper into the story.

Mood

(How can you get it from

the text? (e. setting,

tone, diction, etc.). Please

provide evidence from the

text.

The atmosphere of “The Sisters” is depressing and gloomy.

An example is: ``In the dark of my room.. lips were so

moist with spittle ́ ́

The tone of “The Sisters” is both childlike and formal.

An example is:``Though I was angry with old Cotter.. to

think of Christmas ́ ́

Style

(How would you describe

the style of the writing?

(e. conversational,

formal, familiar,

unfamiliar, simple, ornate,

etc.)

The writing style of “The Sisters” is quite simple and direct.

It is in the dialogue between characters where the style is

most complex.

An example is:

Old Cotter was sitting by the fire smoking when I came down

to dinner. As my aunt served my stir-fry, she said, as if

returning to some earlier observation of hers:

– No, I wouldn't say it was exactly... but there was something

strange... there was something strange about him. I'll tell you

my opinion... [...] I think it was one of those... peculiar cases...

But it's hard to say...

Literary devices

(Which literary devices

can you find in the story?

Please provide examples

from the text.

- Allusion: ``July 1st, 1895 ́ ́ when Battle of the Boyne

occurred.

- Hyperbole:``Had he not been dead I would.. ́ ́

- Irony:`` Sometimes he used to put me.. knew him well ́ ́

-Simile:``The duties of the priest .. these intricate

questions ́ ́

Where is the particular

point of “epiphany” in this

chapter? Please describe

it.

The epiphany in Sisters comes toward the end of the

story, when the boy eavesdrops on a conversation

between his aunt and Sister Eliza and discovers that the

priest had suffered a mental breakdown before his death.

For example, some symbols could be:

- The father in the coffin holds a chalice in his hands, as

if there were reminiscences of the Eucharist.

- The sisters, when the cookies are distributed like the

bread of the Eucharist.

Can you relate the story to

our present time? How?

Of course you can since this happens frequently these days.

Parents do not like their children to be with older people

because of what they may teach or do while they are not

present.

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