Eveline

1.The beginning.

In the first paragraph the narrator shows Eveline sitting by a window at home, felling tired.

The middle

We then follow eveline's  thoughts   as she thinks about her  present, past  and future. Indirectly,we learn many details about her life, her family , and lover. In particular,we find out dhe's going to leave home, but that she's not sure this is wise.the narrator then shows us eveline at the window again -little letter. Again we follow her thoughts. She hears an organ playing. More thoughts. Then suddenly she stands up in terror.

b) in scene two the narrator shows Eveline standing    with her lover near a boat that is about to move for liverpool. More of eveline's thoughts and fellings. Eveline grips a railing.

C the end. The story end dramatically. Eveline's doesn't leave.

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a  the beginnig.

Who is the main character? Eveline.

What is the situation? She is sitting,watching out of window.

How does she fell?  Tired.

Where is the story set? Inside eveline's home.

When does it take place ?one evening

The middle

What happens?

Eveline notices people passing,including tha man who lives in tha last of the new red houses nearby. The sound of his footsteps makes her think of the field that used to be there, of the differences between the new houses and hers.

She then think about her childhood, when she and her brother and sisters were rather happy and when her father was not so  bad. The thought that " everything changes" makes her think of her intention to leave.

The word " home" leads her to look carefully at the room she's in, which she has dusted  so often, at a photograph of a priest  and a print of religious margaret mary alacque.

Next she thinks about the wisdom of her decision to leave, the disadvantages , about how hard her life has been, about how the people at the stores will react to her leaving.

Next her thoughts turn to the future and how she will escaple her father's violence  with the help of her liver frank, who is kind , manly and  open hearted.

We then see that eveline has written two letters, one to her brother harry, the other to her father.

Her thoughts turn again to her father and she begins to think he would  miss her.

Happier memories of him follow when, for istance, he had read her a ghost story, and when he put on her mother's bonnet To make the children laugh.

When she hears a steet organ  playing outside, she remembers her promise  to her mother to keep the home together.

In a moment of terror, she stands up and repeats the word escape And frank would save her.

who are the main caracter? Eveline and frank.

What is the situation? She is  stood at the station hand  held  with frank. Although he is speaking to her.

How does she feel? Confuse and distressed. Then nauseous.

Where is the scene set?

In the crowed station  at the north wall near a boat for liverpool that will enable them to leave towards buenos ayres  the following morning.

When does it take place? The same evening.

What happenes? Eveline  prayed to god to direct  her and to show her  her duty.

When frank tries to pull her towards him, she feels he will kill  Her and so she gripped  the iron  railing.

.c the end

at the end we see frank shouting  to her. Again and eveline crying out in sea.  then as frank  was shouted at to get on board the boat, still calling,we see eveline eith her withe face and her eyes giving him no sign of love  Or farewell or even recognition.

Are there any other details you would want to include in a summary of the story? No there aren't.

How would you summerise the story in just a few words? The story tells about a young woman Eveline. her mother is diing and eveline have been a promise to her , to stay at home together but her father becames so bad that she decides to leave her  home.

She finds a way of escape in Frank , but at the end she decides to not leave.

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1) Which of the characters did you like?I like the mother because she tries to keep united the family before to die. She asks her daughter to  maintain her promise : "to keep the home togheter  as long as she could".

2) did you like the story? Yes , I did. I like the story because it gives more important at family .

3) did you like th style? Yes I did.

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what sense dominate the following parts of the story- sight, hearing, smell,touch,taste?

 Paragraph 1 : sight and smell

Paragraph 2:sight and hearing

Paragraph 3 : sight

Paragraph 10 smell and ..hearing

Paragraph 11: hearing

Paragraph 13: touch, hearing and sight

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Now complete this summary of the sights,sounds,smells and touch.

Paragraph 1 sight: the evening " invading" the avenue;curtains.

Paragraph 2  sight : people passing, a man out of the last house.

Paragraph 3 sight: familiar objects that she has dusted - a photograph of a priest , a broken harmonium, a print of promise.

Paragraph 10:the odour of dusty cretonne; a street organ playing.

Paragraph 11: mother's voice.

Paragraph 13:touch: frank holding her hand; her cheek going cold; nausea in her body, her moving lips, frank seizing her hand and pulling her, gripping(and clutching) the iron railing.

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the story is a mixture of different kinds of writing:

•-          bits of nattative.

•-          Bits of description of settings , and of characters.

•-          Bits of direct speech in real time.

•-          Bits of remembered direct speech.

•-          Lots of thoughts in free indirect speech.

•-          Evocation of eveline's feelings.

Let's look at each part, beginning with paragraph one.

•a)       what kind of writing is it? It is a bit of narrative.

•b)       How many sentences are there?there are 3 sentence.

•c)       What do you notice about the length  of the sentences?I notice the first sentence are shorter than the second. The third is composed only of subject ,verb and adjective.

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a) what word does  eveline's name alliterate with in line 1?it is the verb evening.

b) what other sounds are there in the first sentence? There are a alliteration of the letter " s " : " she sat" , of the letter  "w" : " window , watching" and there are the anaphora of the article the.

c)"invade" is a strange word to descibe a sunset. In fact it tells us more about eveline's feelings than

the sunset.choose one of these words to describe that felling: dreamy.

•d)       what other example of alliteration is there in line 1? There are alliteration of the letter "s ": she sat",of the letter "w" : " window, watching" and the alliteration of the letter " t".

•e)       What do you notice about the stress in these words in the first lines:

•f)         what parts of her body are mentioned? It is mentioned her nose.

•g)       What words are associated with her nose?it is associated the words: odour, curtains, dusty cretonne and nostrils.

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which kind does the narrator tell us about Eveline? the narrator tells about the opinions and feelings about other characters,aspirations, dreams of eveline, experience and about her personality but in a indirect way.

Are the omissions significant? Yes, because the omissions means the narrator would give  more importance to the opinions, fellings, thoughts of eveline than her basic personal details or physical apparence. We can imagine how eveline is in different way.

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the attitude

10 now  look at the start of paragraph 2 , and summarize what eveline  a)sees and b)hears.

•a)       a few people passed, including a man.

•b)       The man's footsteps clacking   along the concrete   pavement and then crunching    on thecinder    path.

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what word is repeated in line 4 ? it is repeated : passed.

in what other word is there a long ( a:)? It is a long a in the word last.

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indentify which words have changed.

One time there used to be a field there in which we used to play every evening with other people's children. Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built houses in it - not like our little brown houses, but  bright brick houses with shining roofs. We used to play in that field with the other children of the avenue- the Devines, the Waters, The Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, me and my brothers and sisters. Ernest, however , never played: he was too grown up.

My father used often to hunt us in out of the field with his blackthorn stick;but usually little Keogh used to keep nix and call out when he saw my father coming.

Still we seemed to have  been rather happy then. My father wasn't so bad then, and bisides, my mother was alive. That was a long time ago, me and my brothers and sisters are all grown up, my mother is dead . tizzie dunn is dead ,too, and the waters have gone back to england. Everything changes. Now I'm going to go away like the others, to leave my home.

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the free direct speech version above or the free indirect speech version of the original? The free direct speech version above the indirect speech version.

Why do you think Joyce used free indirect speech and not free direct speech? I think he uses free indirect speech because he wants to tells the story in third person and he musn't used particular form of writing  and he prefers to report something says precedence and he wants to" come off"of the story..

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look again at the list of things writers often tell us about their characters in ex 8  and say which of them have been used to descibe eveline's father , and which haven't. For example, do we know his name?then say from whose point of view is he usually seen.

Eveline's father is describe with this kind of information: his personality, what other characters think of him  and his family.

He is usually seen like a bad father, when his children played in the field near his house he hunt his children with a blackthorn stick. Eveline sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence.when his children were growing up he had never gone for eveline , like he used to go for Harry and ernest. He was  fairly bad of Saturday night. But he was able to be a good father when he tells a story to Eveline and made toast for her at the fire and when he putting on his  wife's  bonnet to make the children laugh.

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now look at each of the following times the father is mentioned,or speaks. In your own words, talk about:

•a)       in what situation he is recall.

•b)       From whose point of view.

•c)       What details or words are significant, and why.

•d)       What feelings are evoked, and how.

•a)       he is recall when he hunt his children and Eveline's friend  in out of the field , he is bad and  he menaces Eveline . he discusses with Eveline for money on Saturday night and he sayes that she uses to squander the money and she have no head.thare are also happy moments , for example when he tells a ghost story and make toast for Eveline at the fire snd he putting on his wife's bonnet to make the children laugh.

•b)       He  is seen  like a bad father but sometimes he is nice with his children.

•c)       He suffers for the death of his wife and he minaces Eveline only for the her mother's sake.Eveline would not be treated as her mather have been.

•d)        Eveline is afraid of her father beacuse he menaces her and she feels herself in danger of her's father violence. She remembers the happy moments with her father, when he tells the

   a ghost story and make toast for Eveline at the fire snd he putting on his wife's bonnet to make       the children laugh.

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from what I read I think Eveline's mother were not respected because Eveline said that she would be married  and people would treat  her with respect and she would not be treated as her mother had been and her mother  tried to keep united the family before to die. She asks Eveline  to  maintain her promise : "to keep the home togheter  as long as she could".

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he seems to be  in love with Eveline and he asks her to live with him in Buenos Ayres. The narrator focus the attention on  the personality and education of  Frank:" he is kind, mainly, open hearted, he is awfully fond of music and sings a little."

Frank is telled by the memoirs of Eveline , she remember the first time she have seen him and when he told her about the name of the ship because he worked as deck boy at a pound a month on a ship of the Allan Line. Then Frank is the way of escape for Eveline. she wants escape!.

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look again  at lines 7-24 and say how many times each of these words is repeated:

time 2

field 3

play(ed) 2

children 1

houses 1

little 3

avenue 1

brothers and sisters 2

grown up 2 

father 3

mother1

home 2

dead 2

your analysis underlines somrthing important about her character and about her education : she is very simple girl ,with a very limited vocabulary. Is that impression confirmed by her use of expressions like" little brown houses" , "bright brick houses"?  No, it isn't. The narrator probably does this choose to make more importance a this expressions.perhaps the narrator uses this expression to underline the importance of the little brown houses for Eveline and so  he  puts the attention of the reader towards this expression.

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Now look at the language Eveline uses when she think about Frank. It's very significant , for example  , that the first time we hear about him is as  her fellow, especially in the context of "run away with a fellow".

Look again at your analysis of how he is characterised in ex 18 and then at the phrases below.

What aspects make him sound like a hero in a romantic story?.

He seems like  a hero in a romantic story because he tries to save Eveline , he was to go away with  her by the night - boat  and he sang about the lass that loves a sailor and because he hed to meet his lover secretly .

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the realistic  cause  of Eveline's confusion probably is due to the fact the Saturday night recalls the idea of her father . she discusses with him for money, he saies she uses to squander the money, that she have no head.  and he is sick on Saturday night and he is usally fairly bad .

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Eveline was with Frank at the station at the North wall, the station was full of soldiers. Her face was pale and cold and she prayed to god to direct her , to show her what was her duty.

Frank seized her hand and he said: " come " but she gripped with both hands at the iron railing and said: "it is impossible".she  set her white face to him, passive . her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.

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find these two sentences in lines 152 and 154 and explain how Joyce here uses language in ways that are not simply ritual:

1)" a bell clanged upon her heart".

2)" all the seas of the world tumbled about her heart".

•1)       Joyce uses this language in this sentences because he wants to attract the attention of the reader. "a bell clanged upon her heart" recalls the idea of the metal that is cold and without inflection. Joyce wants to associate the characterization of the metal with the heart of Eveline to explain her humor.

•2)       This sentences is used by Joyce to explain the suffering of Eveline. All the seas  and the verb tumbled recall the idea of the storm , probably the sensation that Eveline have in her heart. Besides with this sentence wants to give an idea of the weight in Eveline's heart that she can't support.

25   ,In Joyce's Eveline the story is based on the Eveline's uncertainly . She is influenced by the world and she isn't able to listen herself . she prefers to live unhappy with her father rather than to leave with Frank towards a new life . Moore's Eveleen's Bower the story is different because Eveleen is despair because the Lord of the Valley have lied to her, with a false promise and he ruins her fame. Eveline of Joyce doesn't suffer for love instead the Moore's Eveleen probably suffer.

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summarize in your own words what you think the role of Eveline's dead mother is in the story.

Eveline's dead mother influence Eveline because she promises to her mother to take care of the family and perhaps this is the reason why Eveline doesn't leave with Frank.

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do you think the young  James Joyce  who wrote Eveline Would have said the same?

No I don't. James Joyce in this story wants to explain that Eveline renounces  for love towards her family  at Frank , she continues to be unhappy in her life where she isn't never been happy.

•28     in your opinion, should Eveline have escape from Dublin with Frank? Give reasons for your answer.

In my opinion Eveline should have do what she felt to do. There are two expect  to consider:

1)She  is insecure perhaps for the promise that she has done to her mother : she must  take care of the family. She is afraid of the economic situation in Buenos Ayres with Frank.

She is affectionate to the family and perhaps she doesn't want to leave with Frank.

•2)       Frank can save and loves  her  and she thinks she must leave with him because he does more for her. 

It is a difficult choice for Eveline, but if she has decided to remain with her family she hasn't  loved really Frank  and perhaps this is the just choice..