Where does the beginning of each story come from and what influences authors to include details and write the way they do? How do they know what to write about when the words just don't come to some? Life experiences, history, family history, and events surrounding them over time are four of the main reasons why authors put their thoughts and feelings on paper. What influenced James Joyces writing most were the events that happened around him in Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s. However, his experiences had an impact on his writing style and material. writing. Joyce was born in 1882 in Dublin, Ireland, and lived through reforms, wars and trials until his death in Zurich in 1941. He was a man very interested in politics and was very interested in how a country was run. In the year 1914, James wrote 15 short stories known as Dubliners, which also includes the short story “Araby” (Thomas). "Araby" is a short story in which he writes describing a young boy's curiosity and naive experience with love and in which he describes his personal life as a boy. Ireland was not always as free and independent as it is now. England had been in control of Ireland since they took control of it in 1798 (Allison). This had a great effect on James's life: throughout his childhood their country was under the control of a foreign hand. When Joyce first published his stories, there were riots in the surrounding countries and that same year the First World War began. Due to the unrest in the surrounding towns, Joyce had adapted these events into his fiction pieces. Culture, where and how a person is raised, influences a person, no matter how much he dislikes the way he is taught ways of life. . However, as a child he moved to different places and the country...... middle of paper ...... saw two wars, multitudes of countries and, in a sense, was oppressed by a foreign power. Works Cited" A Brief Biography of James Joyce." Joyce. The James Joyce Center, 2011. Web. January 14, 2011. Allison, Fiona. "The Irish War of Independence 1919-1921." suite101.com. suite101, January 11, 2010. Web. January 16, 2011. Connor, Steven. James Joyce. Plymouth: Northcote House Publishers, 1996. PrintJoyce, James. “Arabia”. Literature: the human experience. Abcarian, Richard et al.,. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. 92-96 Kiberd, Declan. Ulysses and us. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. PrintO'Brien, Edna. James Joyce. New York: Viking Penguin, 1999. PrintPeterson, Richard F. James Joyce, Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992. Print Thomas, Steve. "James Joyce's Dubliners." ebooks@Adelaide. The University of Adelaide, 23 August 2010. Web. 20 January 2011