In the short story "Araby," written in 1914 by the Irish writer James Joyce, a young boy describes his life on a Dublin
street where he lives with his aunt and uncle
Excerpt from "Araby"
by James Joyce
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paragraph of the passage, on pages 1 and 2.
... When the short days of winter came dusk
fell before we had well eaten our dinners.
When we met in the street the houses had
grown sombre. The space of sky above us
was the colour of ever-changing violet and
towards it the lamps of the street lifted their
feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we
played till our bodies glowed, our shouts
echoed in the silent street. The career of our
play brought us through the dark muddy
Janes behind the houses where we
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the narrator and his friends recognize the
inherent danger of the neighborhood
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