A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Difference between revisions

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Stephen gets a taste of this during the Father Dolan episode.

* [[Coming of Age Story]]

* [[The Determinator]]

* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: When Stephen goes to a sermon, the priest gives a sermon/rant about the horrors of hell, such as the eternal smell of decaying corpses.

{{quote| Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo....}}

* [[Fear of Thunder]]

* [[Irish Political System]]: The [[Irish Parliamentary Party]] and [[Charles Stuart Parnell]] (and his [[wikipedia:Charles Stuart Parnell#Divorce crisis|divorce crisis]] and death) figure prominently in the first few episodes of the story.

* [[Multiple Narrative Modes]]: The book is almost entirely told in the third person, but lapses into first-person diary entries at the very end.

* [[Professional Sex Ed]]: Practically forced on him.

* [[Sadist Teacher]]