Childhood stories Flashcards
The Sisters - paralysis, gnomon and simony
“It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism”
The Sisters - seduction of paralysis
“It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be neaer to it and to look upon its deadly work”
The Sisters - face of paralysis
“I saw the heavy grey face of the paralytic”
The Sisters - confession
“I understood that it desired to confess something. I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region”
The Sisters - simony
“absolve the simoniac of his sin”
The Sisters - free from the oppression of the priest
“I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death”
The Sisters - description of the dead priest
“His face was very translucent, grey and massive, with black cavernous notrils and circles by scanty white fur”
The Sisters - “ _____ ______ on his chest”
idle chalice
An Encounter - foreign eyes
“examined the foreign sailors to see had any of them green eyes for I had some confused notion” - “I met the gaze of a pair of bottle green eyes”
An Encounter - old josser’s accent
“his accent was good”
An Encounter - chiasmus
“soft” “nice” “whipping”
An Encounter - Old Josser’s speech
“magnetised by his own speech, his mind was slowly circling around and round the same orbit”
An Encounter - “ _________ something he had ______ by _____”
“repeating something he had learnt by heart”
An Encounter - Old josser’s tone
“monotonous tone”
An Encounter - the boy’s submission
“I neither answered nor raised my eyes”
An Encounter - the boy’s lack of control
“involuntarily glanced up at his face”
An Encounter - Old josser talking to the boy
“as he led me monotonously through the mystery”
An Encounter - the boy’s epiphany
“And I was penitent; for in my heart I had always despised him a little”
Araby - parody of the Garden of Eden
“The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which I found the late tenant’s rusty bicycle pump”
Araby - description of Mangan’s sister
“Her figure defined by light” “Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side”
Araby - boy acknowledging the effect Mangan’s sister’s name has on him
“her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood”
Araby - the chaos of Dublin
“amid the cursesof labourers, the shrill litanies of shop-boys”
Araby - boy’s imagination carrying the chalice
“I imagined I bore the chalice through a throng of foes”
Araby - idolisation of Mangan’s sister, misplaced worship
“strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand sprung to my lips” “confused adoration”
