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A. The Beginning

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

B. The Middle

a. We then follow Eveline's thoughts as she thinks about her present, past and future. Indirectly, we learn many details about her life- about her family and her lover. In particular, we find out she's going to leave home, but that she's not sure this is wise. The narrator then shows Eveline at the window again- a little later. 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 leave for Liverpool(in order to get a ship for South America). More of Eveline's thoghts and feelings. Eveline grips a railing.

C.The End

The story ends dramatically. Eveline doesn't move

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A. The Beginning

WHO  is the main character?  Eveline

WHAT  is th situation? She is sitting, watching out of a window

HOW does she feel? tired

WHERE is the story set? Inside Eveline's  house

WHEN does it take place? One evening

B. The Middle

Eveline noties people passing, including the man who lives in the last of the new red huses nearby. The soud 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 thinks about her chilhood, when she and her brothers 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 go away.

the word home leads her to look carefully at the room she's i, which she has  dusted so often; at a photograph of a priest and a print of religious ... 

Next she thinks abou 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 living.

Next her thoughts turn to the future and how she will escape her father's  violence with the help of her lover Frank, who is kind, manly and open-hearted. She recalls their courtship. Memories of her father's dislike of Frank focus on the time when - after a holiday with lover- he had forbidden her to          speak to him.

We then see tht 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 instance, 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 street organ playing outside, se remembers her the 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 characters?

WHAT is the situation? She is at the station hand in with Frank. Although he is speaking to her, she is swaying

HOW does she feel? pale and cold and distressed. Than nauseous.

WHERE is the scene sat? In the crowded at the North wall near a boat for Liverpool that will enable them to  towards the following morning.

WHEN does it take place? The same day

WHAT happens? 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 drawing her and so she gripped the iron railing.

C. The end

At the end we see Frank shouting her again and Eveline crying out in terror. Then as Frank ... to get on board the boat ,still calling, we see Eveline with her white face and her eyes giving hi 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, I wouldn't.

How would you summarise the story in just a few words?

At the beginning of the story there is a young woman, Eveline, who is thining about her past; she is going to leave with her lover Frank at at the end she doesn't move. 

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▪ There isn't a character I liked in particular but I understand he point of view of Eveline, who is uncertain about what to do.

    I didn't like her father because of his problem (he was always drunk)

   ▪     I like the story because I like the narrative tecnique of the novelist but I would like to know in a more clear way the end of the story.

   ▪     Yes I did like the style. I like the feeling of being in Eveline's mind.

4

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 taste

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Paragraph 1: sight: the evening invading the evenig;smell: the odour of dusty cretonne

Paragraph 2: sight: eople passing; hearing: footsteps clacking

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

Paragraph 10: smell: odour of dusty cretonne; hearing: street organ playing

Paragraph 11: hearing; she heard again her mother's voice

Paragraph 13:  Touch: Frank holding her hand; her cheeck going cold; nausea in her body; her moving lips; Frank seizing her hand and pulling her, gripping the iron railing.

6

a) It is a description of settings and of character.

b) There are 3 sentences.          

c) They are getting shorter.

d) The writer obliges the reader to speed down the reading and, as a result, the reader creates the mental picture ofthe whole situation described.

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a) The words evening and invade alliterates with Eveline's name.

b) Avenue is is the other [v] sound.

c) unhappy

d) Other example of alliteration in line 1 are the [w] sounds: window, watching.

e) The first syllables in every window are stressed.

f) The head and the nostrils are the part of the body mentioned.

g) Nostrils and odour are the words associated with her nose.

h) Yes it is less evocative because of the lack of alliterations that contribute to speed up the reading and to involve the reader. 

8

The kinds of information the narrator uses to describe Evelone are: basic personal details, personality, family and social class, opinions and feelings about other characters, experiences, aspirations and dreams.

10

a) A few people passed, including the man out of the last house.

b) The man's footsteeps clacking along the concrete pavement and then crunching on the cinder path.

11

The word "passed "is repeated in line 4. The other word with a long [a:] is "man".

13

I think Joyce used free indirect speech and not free direct speech because it helps detach the reader from identifyng too closely with Eveline.

15

We don't knowher father's name; we see hi from eveline's point of view, as the whole story.

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time  2

field  4

play(ed)  3

children  2

houses  2

little  3

avenue 1

brothers and sisters  2

grown up  2

father  3

mother  2

home  1

dead  2

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He sunds like a hero in a romantic story because the narrator, from Eveline's point of view, uses some expression like "to live with him in Buenos Aires where he had a home waiting for her" or "he sang about the lass that loves a sailor", that make the reader understand Eveline' wish of be happy with him.

22

They are at the station of North Wall, they are leaving but she is ot sure what to do. She thinks about her options and at the end she doesn't leave.

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I don't know if Eveline should leave with her lover, but maybe if she went she would start a new life. On the other hand leaving she would think about the promise made to her mother and she would feel like she had betraied her.