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1			Consider your first (or most recent) crush. How would you characterize it? Can you relate any elements of your crush to plot events in "Araby"? Which ones?
2			Are you an enthusiastic gift giver, or a reluctant one? Why do you think the narrator of "Araby" doesn't get a gift for Mangan's sister? Is he just being stingy? Didn't he like what he saw?