In Araby by James Joyce, the story is based on a little boy who finds his first crush or perhaps his first love. Either word works for the feelings this little boy begins to have toward a beautiful young girl. The little boy wants to go to Arabia to give the girl something that will show her how he feels about her. Although some things happen throughout the story that might change the little boy's mind about his new crush/love. In the story, the little boy loses and gains several things throughout the story. In the story, the little boy has his first crush/love, but the boy loses the drive for that love, and his childhood in the process. At the beginning of James Joyce's Araby, a little boy rediscovers the feelings of his first crush, on the girl who lives across the street. As noted in Araby, “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front living room, watching his door. » The little boy loved the feelings he would feel when he saw the girl across Richmond Street. He was in love with the girl and the way her dress flowed over her body. Another part of the story describes...