James Joyce 1882-1941

James Joyce was one of the persons responsible for bringing novels into the modern era. A native of Dublin, Ireland most of his writings consisted of his homeland in some way. Joyce wrote that he planned the volume to be a chapter of Ireland's "moral history" and that in writing it he had "taken the first step towards the spiritual liberation of my country." pg. 1131 "After the break-up at home the boys had got her that position in the Dublin by Lamplight laundry, and she liked it. She used to have such a bad opinion of Protestants but now she thought they were very nice people, a little quiet and serious, but still very nice people to live with. Then she had her plants in the conservatory and she liked looking after them. She had lovely ferns and wax-plants and, whenever anyone came to visit her, she always gave the visitor one or two slips from her conservatory. There was one thing she didn't like and that was the tracts on the walls; but the matron was such a nice person to deal with, so genteel." I think that these are just a few of the qualitiese that Joyce began to realize existed in his enviroment, when he began to write. I think that it's wonderful when a person can begin healing when you realize that the first step, is to deal with the issues that deem as the source or the root of your problem. To evaluate the elements that contributed to the hurt, and realize that at the time it may have felt horrible and appeared impossible, really weren't place in your life to destroy you, but were put there as stepping stones or the things that have helped to make you the person that you are. These things are designed for you to always remember who you are and where yuo came from not, not to destroy you , but to stregthen you.