Fave Book # 3: The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is a story of a boy named Stephen Dedalus as he tries to rebel against the Catholic and the Irish ways where he was brought up to. It started when he was a boy and was sent to the a bording school with his parents’ hope of him changing into a gentleman.





But throughout his entire life as a boy, Stephen experienced the things he has never experienced before like being bullied, daydreaming and being hit by a paddle as an act of discipline. In his stay at the school, he realized that life isn’t just an powdered juice that when you mix and stir in cold water will taste good but a wine that needed to be brewed carefully to taste good. With his experiences such as overcoming his early heart break, his family problems and school problems, Stephen readied himself for the twists and turns of fate he knew is heading in his way.



A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man was written by James Joyce as a semi-autobiography and was published in 1944 in its original cover. The book itself earned several praises and recommendation from men and women of high remarks for its “dialogue intensive scenes” which was seen usually on situations while Stephen is talking to his friends and its originality in the sense that James replaced his quotation marks with dashes.



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