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The Stone Boy essay by Hans Augustenborg

‘’He don’t give a hoot, is that how it goes?’’ – this is one of the many claims that are pointed against Arnold’s unexpected behaviour after he accidental fires a shoot, which leads into the death of his brother Eugie. In the text, The Stone Boy by Gina Berriault, we follow a boy who behaves exceptional calm, after he killed his brother. But do you really have the tools to tell, when a person is feeling stung just by observing his way to conduct? Places in the text including the grown-ups reactions on the incident and their way to handle the situation, tells us that no one really discovers the course of pain he is going through.
On a little farm in the country, two brothers are going out for picking up peas. One of the boys Arnold decides to carry a rifle with him for the purpose of hunting ducks by the lake. On the way over a wired fence at the way down to the lake, a shot was unfortunately fired from Arnold’s rifle. The bullet had hit the other brother, Eugie.
The protagonist Arnold is the latest born child in the family. He got an uncle named Andy who is more like an enemy rather than a friend for Arnold. ‘’You don’t want him?’’ is Andy’s reply to the sheriff when he tells him and the father to take Arnold back home. It doesn’t seem like uncle Andy together with the distant father really cares about the little boy. Before the accident Arnold behaves just like you could imagine a little brother with a six-year-older brother would behave. Arnold is impatient in the morning when his brother doesn’t wakes up by the alarm clock’s rusty ring. Arnold is stubborn because Eugie has promised to go out and pick peas with him. Impatience and stubbornness are the impressions we get of Arnold before the death of his brother. These impressions could be symbols on a badly brought up