Throughout Joyce's short story of a nameless adolescent boy, the recurring theme of colour and darkness is one of several literary devices deployed in the narrative to engage the reader in understanding the transformation which the protagonist is experiencing. In addition to the use of sounds, and senses as a whole, sight is quite clearly used to segregate many differences in the young boys life. Taking a broad examination of the text and sighting each reference to colour and shadow, it is only the narrator's outside world, which he yearns to understand and belong to, that is described in ligh...

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