Question

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____ His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face. He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.

Answer 1

Stephan Dedalus being told a children story by his father in the novel A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

Step-by-step explanation:

The given lines are from the first lines of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. These lines were spoken by Stephan Dedalus's father, telling him about a children's story.

Though not much is given about the story, it is the very first instance of the stream of consciousness that Joyce will employ in his work. Stephen, as a young child, began to identify himself with the baby tuckoo in the story, he begins to form his own unique identity from the stories of his father. And with no real sense of time or space in the narration of the story, Joyce also uses the basic idea of what a child's perspective is like, with no sense of time or perception, moving whenever and however a child wants.