...An essay of - The Stone Boy by Gina Berriault. In some communities things stay in the same repetition as it always has done, and they do not follow the development of society. Their behaviour and their way of thinking are old and out-dated. In this particularly society the priorities are to live an easy quite life, and they are not interested in learning about the world outside their fields. They have to go to school, get a job, get married and then start a family of their own and in South America this is a typical way of living. In “The Stone Boy” by Gina Berriault from 1957 you hear how people react on changes and how people develop from them. It is told by a 3. person narrator, and therefor it is an omniscient narrator. The structure is chronically, which means that It does not jump in time. The story takes place in the 1950s where the family lives on the countryside outside the city Corinth, Mississippi. They are old fashioned and to survive they have to live of their land. They hunt and collect food in the nature. Arnold is a 9 years old boy, who lives with his parents, his sister Nora, and his brother Eugene who is 15 years old. The brothers share a room, and it looks like Arnold likes and looks up to Eugene as you can se here: To dispel emphatically his uneasy advantage over his sleeping brother, he threw himself on the hump of Eugie's body”. Arnold and Eugene woke up early in the morning and went picking peas. Arnold brought the riffle he got from his father...
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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...
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...The Stone Boy Tragedy is something that any human has to face in life. During these moments of intense emotion, humans come together in unity, to cope with whatever distress they face. But what happens if one human is left out of the flock, to attend himself when tragedy hits? The text revolves around this theme of neglect, and how a person can become afraid and want to alienate oneself from the ones who should be close to them, if they aren’t cared for when tragedy occurs. The setting of the story “The Stone Boy” by Gina Berriault is on a farm in the countryside, the place is isolated, which fits into the theme as a symbol for alienation. Arnold lives here with his parents, older brother Eugene and older sister Nora. One day Arnold accidentally shoots and kills Eugene when his rifle gets jammed in a fence wire. Instead of going back to his family straight away, he goes picking peas for an hour. After he has told his parents what happened, he isolates himself in a barn before he’s taken to the police by his dad and uncle. Because he doesn’t run straight back home after the accident, the Sheriff speculates him being a sociopath, which his uncle takes note of. He is overlooked by his family, and rejected when he tries to talk with his mother one the night. It all ends with him leaving the house to retrieve a newborn calf. The narrator being 3rd person and bound to Arnolds’ point of view is significant in the regard that it tells us how he feels, and what his thoughts are...
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...Everybody knows that knowing our past is essential, but to Native Americans knowing your history is your future.These two stories”Coyote and Storytelling Stone” can extraordinarily be compared as well as have a luxury of diversity concerning the theme, motif, and archetype.Essentially when Coyote kept deficient to run as much as then, the boy wanted to hear the stories that the stone told and use it for his upcoming.Another example is that Coyote is a Quest and Storytelling Stone is a death and rebirth story.In the distant future, the differences and similarities through Storytelling Stone and Coyote implied. Taking this into consideration there was a lot of ideas that always happened over and over again that effects the two stories...
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...The “Rolling Stones”, the “Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World”, or the “Stones” are all names of which the influential bad boys of Rock ‘n’ Roll go by. The well deserved and hardly argued title of the “Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World” was first bestowed upon them in the 1960s. Although there were other Rock ‘n’ Roll bands rising to fame at this time, almost simultaneously, the Rolling Stones graciously accepted the title and carried it to the top along with them, taking no breaks from the spotlight. The Rolling Stones left a lasting impression on the music industry as well as on most, if not all, of the people that have had the pleasure of enjoying their music, including myself. I was first captivated by the Stones as a kid...
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...questions it because everybody goes along with it. The first time reading "The Lottery” heeds a surprise ending. When going back and reading the story a second or third time, all the foreshadowing the author puts into the story is blatant. Jackson uses foreshadowing in The Lottery to warn the reader of the disturbing ending of the story. To start, Jackson foreshadows the stoning of Mrs. Hutchinson by describing the village boys' preparatory actions before the lottery takes place. Jackson lets the reader know that the boys are collecting stones and putting them into piles, saying, "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones... [and] eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square." The boys putting the stones into piles foreshadows that the stones that will be used to throw at the lottery winner. At the end of the story, both the boys and the parents will pick from these piles and throw stones at the lottery winner. The boys’ collecting actions also represent the young age that the village accustoms its members to be savage and be okay...
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...the Veld,” by Doris Lessing, and “Stones,” by Sandre Birdsell, all of the same theme “Coming of Age.” They all go through hardship, pain, and loss. In each of these stories the protagonist realizes reality in three different ways: by facing death, by watching one closest to them get hurt or made a fool, and by realizing his or hers surroundings. Firstly in the story “Sunrise on the Veld,” by Doris Lessing the main character notices the real world by seeing death in a harsh way. In this story their was a boy who lived in South Africa who had just turned 15 years old. In the boys mind he had believed that he could be king of the Universe. Since he did not sleep he thought he could control over his own body. Early in the morning on his birthday he had decided to hunt for the first time, after watching several months of how the natives hunt animals. While running around the vlei full of joy he had came across the buck that had been hurt badly and was being attacked by a crowd of ants.“… as he drew in his breath and pity and terror seized him…” Doris Lessing (145) the narrator describes the boy. In this quote it clearly shows that it was one of the first time the boy had seen death and the fact that the boy was shocked at the sight of death. Before the boy was about to shoot the buck from its misery he said to himself “, I can’t stop it. I can’t stop it. There is nothing I can do.” Doris Lessing (146) This is the turning point for the 15 year old boy. It is the part where he recognizes...
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...Prologue - “Have a seat Mr. Ores.” The boy took a tentative step into the room and then stopped. “Am I in trouble,” he asked. “Should you be?” The boy took a moment to decide how best to answer. To hide his smile, the scribe hid looked down at his notes. “No can’t think of anything.” The boy took a seat in the low backed chair set directly across from the scribe. His eyes scanned the room carved out for the Elder Scribe’s bedroom, study, and office. Stone from the local quarry made rough hewn walls upon which the scribe had hung a hand drawn map of the known world on one wall and a small illustration of the Heart of the Mother Cathadra in Chisten on the other. The back wall was dominated by overfull bookcases. “I have asked you here...
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...professor, putting a time frame for the Rolling Stones is a task which requires envisioning a world before every memory one has ever made. “Timeless” would be an appropriate adjective, but “the 1950s” serves just as well. The band did not start as its line-up consists of today. Hardly, if any, bands have ever started like that. The Rolling Stones started as a small teen band named, “Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys”, with Mick Jagger singing and Keith Richards playing guitar. The music they played was all covers; they played songs which came from the musicians which they enjoyed. At this time, there were not any new movements arising which were primarily British. In this post-World War II era, the biggest new genres emerging were jazz, country/western, and R&ump;B (rhythm and bass). With these being primarily American genres, many adults in Britain did not want their children listening to this unfamiliar new music. However, the Rolling Stones were always a group attracted to the idea of rebellion. Such influential figures were Buddy Holly, Muddy Waters, and St.-Louis native Chuck Berry. One thing the Rolling Stones were always known for, their stage act, started in 1962. As “Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys” became “The Rollin’ Stones”, Mick Jagger, the front man of the group, slowly gained confidence. Stephen Davis in his 40-year span of the Rolling Stones entitled, “Old gods almost dead. The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones”, describes Mick’s act as: “tossing his hair...
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...woman wins the lottery and the prize of getting stoned to death. Even though this sounds dramatic and brutal in our ears, it is not far from what is happening right now, in other countries in the world. But we don’t see it as a tradition, as they do in the story. The stoning of the “winner” is an annual tradition for the villagers; “Every year, after the lottery, Mr. Summers began talking again about a new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything's being done.” What is noticeable about this tradition was, that many of the villagers don’t seem to really understand why this is even a tradition. “Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.” The fact that the villagers had forgotten the original ritual indicates that it doesn’t really mean a lot to them. They are doing it more for habit than desire. The stoning of Tessie Hutchinson does not involve any form of prosecution or criminal acts whatsoever, and is completely based on bad luck. The rest of the village is blindly following the tradition, and when a character mentions that, “Some places have already quit lotteries”, an older member of the crowd quickly reproves her. Even though the setting is never really specified, but the reader still get an idea of the environment through bits of description. When you puzzle the pieces together, we are located in a western village. The...
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...In the story “The Ravine” Vinny and Joe-Boy are best friends. Joe-Boy is very rude to Vinny.They go to this ravine when Vinny’s mom told him not to go there, because this boy just died there two weeks and one day ago his name was Butchie. Butchie was fourteen years old,Vinny and Joe-Boy are fiftteen years old. Joe-boy is a dare devil because he jumps off of a fifty foot ledge. Vinny has a lot of anxiety because of the dead boy. Joe-boy is a harsh friend because he makes vinny feel very scared, Joe-boy said “ Hey Vinny, just think ,that kid walked where you’re walking. On page four it says, “Vinny is very fearful” because Joe-boy makes Vinny feel...
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...For example, the stones are foreshadowed at the beginning of the story when the children put them into a pile and even when a little boy puts them into his pockets, “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example...” (Jackson 1). This illustrates how important the stones will be later. Foreshadowing is done frequently in the story, especially towards the end when Mrs. Hutchinson exclaims that the lottery wasn’t done fairly because her family won. However, at first, the reader may be confused because normally winning a lottery is a good thing. Although the reader doesn’t get a good feeling when Mrs. Hutchinson says, “I think we ought to start over” (Jackson 5). In fact, the reader knows somethings is wrong when Mrs. Hutchinson says, “I tell you it wasn’t fair. You didn’t give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that” (Jackson 5). These statements reiterate...
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...he needed to find a boy who was born with no father, so he could kill his & sprinkle his blood on the ground and that would allow the construction of the Citadel to take place. After searching he found a boy who was born without a father. He brought him back to the kingdom. The boy questioned the king and the king explained what the wise told him. Then demanded that he question the wise men. He asked the wise men what was under the pavement, but they not knowing what to reply, said I don’t know. The boy told them it was a pool. He told the wise men to dig and that’s what they found. In the pool was 2 vases, and in the vases was a tent. In the tents were 2 serpents. One was red and the other one was white. The snakes were fighting each other and the weaker one was red, and finally was able to drive the white one out and it slithered away. Then the boy, asked the wise men what was signified by this wonderful omen they stood in silence, so the boy says to the king, now I will unfold to you the meaning of this mystery. The pool is the emblem of this world, and the tent is your kingdom: the 2 serpents are two dragons; the red serpent is your dragon, and the white serpent is the dragon of the people, however, our people will rise up and drive away the Saxons from beyond the sea, and send them back from where they originally came. The king asked the boy, “what is your name?” The boy replied, “I am called Ambrose.” The king asked, “what is your origin?” The boy said, “a Roman consul...
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...The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. Published 1992. ISBN 0-7225-3293-8. PART ONE The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. He decided to spend the night there. He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. There were no wolves in the region, but once an animal had strayed during the night, and the boy had had to spend the entire next day searching for it. He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. It was still dark when he awoke, and, looking up, he could see the stars through the halfdestroyed roof. I wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. He had had the same dream that night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended. He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that still slept. He had noticed that, as soon as he awoke, most of his animals also began to stir. It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that of the sheep, with whom he had spent the past two years, leading them through the countryside in search of food and water. "They...
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...more aggressive in their marketing compared to Elvis and his Rolling Stones(Spitz 23). When it came to marketing, Elvis’ music appealed to the youth while the Beatles appealed to the older masses. It, therefore, meant each group had its clients in a separate age bracket. Through cumulatively, the marketing of the Beatles was more aggressive, and they were able to sell more than Elvis. When it came to mass culture, the two groups had a mass following. Elvis had more youths following him as compared to the Beatles whose majority of their audience were people of advanced age (Spitz 30). Elvis was, therefore, able to transform the way the youths carried on most of their daily activities. On the other hand, the Beatles could not change the image of the older generation that formed bug chunk of their following. The marketing of Rolling Stones was far below that of the Beatles. The Beatles were able to capture the audiences with their songs compared to the Rolling Stones ( Shellans & Slater 61). The Rolling Stones tried harder, but they could not match the Beatles. The Beatles were just too good for them when it came to marketing. The two groups got their bad boy image from the fact that they were simply menacing on stage. The way they glorified sex, and their use of marijuana made them get the bad boy image. No parent would have wished their children to be associated with them. They did not always have their bad boy image as the law was always there to put them in check (Shellans &...
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