Essays Tagged: "Stone Boy"

Short Story Essay - Analysis of "The Stone Boy"

Gina Berriault's "The Stone Boy", a narrative story, mainly portrays the tragedy committed by a nine-year-old boy, Arnold, ... boy. Later Arnold was brought to the sheriff when everybody thinks that he is a cold-blooded boy, a stone boy. Angered by Arnold's coldness, they shut him out, trying to ignore him and they even do so ... an the death of his brother. The city in the story is a place with not much passion, a distinctive "stone city" as well as Arnold's "stone parents", which is the reason why the people who live there a ...

(6 pages) 33 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature