Candle Flame - “First Confession”
Ryan’s fascination with hell is illustrated through the candle blazing experimentations that she oversights. Jackie recalls, “She lit a candle, took out a new half-crown, and offered it to the first boy who would hold one finger, only one finger! - in the flame for five minutes by the school clock. Being always very ambitious I was tempted to volunteer, but I thought it might look greedy. Then she asked were we afraid of holding one finger-only one finger! - in a little candle flame for five minutes and not afraid of burning all over in roasting hot furnaces for all eternity. "All eternity! Just think of that! A whole lifetime goes by and it's nothing, not even a drop in the ocean of your sufferings.” Ryan usages the candle flame to particularize the foreseeable travail in hell. The scorching is a recreation of the distress that the sinners will withstand in hell. Through the simulation, the children apprehend that the anguish in hell will be categorically piercing. Ryan surmises that disheartening the children about hell will incontrovertibly actuate a devotion that will proliferate the children’s espousal of commendable, heavenly comportments.
The Imagery of the Funeral - “The Drunkard”
Mick Delaney exclaims, ““Five carriages!...Five carriages and sixteen covered cars! There’s one alderman, two councillors and tis known how many priests. I didn’t see a funeral like this from the road since Willie Mack, the publican, died.” Based of Delanay’s exclamations, Mr. Dooley’s funeral is unquestionably outstanding. He gets a seemly send-off which conjectures that he was not an inconsequential personality. The carriages and the entourages signify Mr. Dooley’s outright import.
