Which phrases in this excerpt from James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" portray the story's setting?
The wide playgrounds were swarming with boys. All were shouting and the prefects urged them on with strong cries. The evening air was pale
and chilly and after every charge and thud of the footballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light. He kept on the
fringe of his line, out of sight of his prefect, out of the reach of the rude feet, felgning to run now and then. He felt his body small and weak
amid the throng of the players and his eyes were weak and watery. Rody Kickham was not like that he would be captain of the third line all the
fellows said.
Rody Kickham was a decent fellow but Nasty Roche was a stink. Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory. Nasty
Roche had big hands. He called the Friday pudding dog-in-the-blanket. And one day he had asked:
--What is your name?
Stephen had answered: Stephen Dedalus.

"The wide playgrounds were swarming with boys".

"The evening air was pale  and chilly and after every charge and thud of the footballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light".

Explanation:

The setting of any act or scene is the place where the events occur. The place or location of the scenes and the environment around it comprises the setting.

In the given passage from James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", the phrases that reveal of implies the setting is "The wide playgrounds were swarming with boys". This line gives the location of the scene, the playground. Moreover, the description of the atmosphere, "the evening air" and "the greasy leather orb [flying] through the grey light" presents another setting phrase.  

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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