Araby is the third of the fifteen stories in Dubliners. This tale of the frustrated quest for beauty in the midst of drabness is both meticulously realistic in its handling of details of Dublin life and the Dublin scene and highly symbolic in that almost every image and incident suggests some particular aspect of the theme. Joyce was drawing on his own childhood recollections, and the uncle in the story is a reminiscence of Joyce's father. But in all the stories in Dubliners dealing with childhood,the child lives not with his parents but with an uncle and aunt-a symbol of that isolation and lack of proper relation between "consubstantial" ("in the flesh") parents and children which is a major theme in Joyce's work.
参考资料：<英美文学选读>,外语教学与研究出版社

读后感是议论性较强的读书笔记,要用切身体会,实践经验和生动的事例来阐明从“读”中悟出的道理.因此,读后感中既要写“读”,又要写“感”,既要叙述,又必须说理.叙述是议论的基础,议论又是叙述的深化,二者必须结合.
读后感以“感”为主.要适当地引用原文,当然引用不能太多,应以自己的语言为主.在表现方法上,可用夹叙夹议的写法,议论时应重于分析说理,事例不宜多,引用原文要简洁.在结构上,一般在开头概括式提示“读”,从中引出“感”,在着重抒写感受后,结尾又回扣“读”.
写读后感一般应做到三点：
1、要读懂原文的内容.“读后感”,顾名思义,就是先读后感.因此,读是至关重要的.只有通过读,抓住了原文的重要内容,才会写出自己的真实体会.
2、写自己体会最深刻的部分.一篇文章叙述的内容很多,要抓住文章中你自己体会最深的内容来写.体会不深,感想不丰富,读后感就写不成功.

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