The Stone Boy

endeavor The stone boy. In this essay, would I like to discuss how the way his family neglects Arnold can affect him in the future. The trading floor is set in the s let outh part of the USA where we meet the following characters, Arnold and Eugene on their way out early in the morning. The two boys are on their way out to the lake, where they are going to hook peas and if they are luckily, to shoot some ducks. Arnold has got a 22-caliber rifle, which he got from his father and on their way to the lake, when passing below some wires the rifle got stuck in it and ended up killing Eugene.When telling his parents about the incident they didnt believed him. Shortly after the sheriff and the father bring Arnold in to town, they didnt believe it was an accident alone that he had planed everything. In The match male child we meet a little boy by the name Arnold, whos only 9 years old. He is a young, happy boy who looked up to his brother1. But something went lopsided when his broth er got killed. He went into a state of shock that instead of calling for his father to facilitate Eugene so that he could maybe survive, just went on picking peas.Furthermore his state of shock became worse when he was brought to the sheriffs office for a hearing In there, the sheriff questions Arnold about things, like why he was carrying a . 22-caliber rifle, if him and his brother where good friends, how it happened ect. But then the sheriff began pinpointing his questions, like why he didnt call for help and why he kept on picking peas for an hour could Arnold not answer the question. Which made it expect obvous, to the sherrif and the father, that the boy might mystify killed Eugie for the sake of pleasure that and that accusation made Arnold look as an venomous young boy2.The way the grownups handled the situation was poorly. The boy at only nine years gets questions thrown at him. I came down to pick peas, he give tongue to. Whats that got to do with it? Its better to p ick peas enchantment theyre cool. Those where the last words Arnold said at the sheriffs office, before he was look upon as cruel and didnt care about his brother. 3 The relationship between Mother and Arnold in The Stone boy is not how it should be. At scallywag 4 from line 116 and till the end of the page you see how Arnolds mother is ignoring him.Putting her hands over her face to cover her eyes from meeting her on sons and ignoring him when he tries to come in to his mother at night to find closure, you cant do anything, but feel sad for poor Arnold. If a child breaks something or looses something they should be scolded, but getting smoldering at a 9 year old child because for an accident no matter size and treating the child as a murderer because of his reaction should not be the answer. Arnolds mother should have thought about that, because he was in grief and wanted her to be there, and maybe hold him in her arms and tell him that everything is going to be okay.But unfo rtunately she doesnt do that and that becomes a consequence. The Stone Boy is written in a subjective 3rd-person. When I say subjective, I mean that the teller only lets us see what Arnold is thinking while commenting throughout the story. An example could be Then he went out the door and down the back steps legs trembling from the fright his answer gave him. 4 This is where his mother asked him what it was he wanted from her the night before, when she didnt let him into her room. You can begin to see how he is affected by everything that has happened.That night she didnt let him in, changed him because of the way he is steamyly. The themes that are mostly seen in The Stone Boy Death which we have seen throughout the story the death of Eugene and mostly the death of himself. Identity/Failure by the end of the story, Arnold has transformed himself into the stone boy referred to in the title. Yet, he doesnt do so because he feels himself unable to experience emotions and share fee lings he does so because he realizes that this is how his family looks at him. Violence the sheriff judges Arnold, define him as a cold-blooded, merciless monster everyone present feels the chill of his words. The sheriffs next words tell a grim future for Arnold. The Stone Boy covers most of the story, like I mentioned in the themes section, about how the stack around him, made him become this cynical stone boy no matter what he does from that daytime on (after Eugenes death) wont change anything, because the environment has become blinded by his emotional state.While reading the text, I found besides the misery, sadness and neglect, there was a very burning(prenominal) massage and a big question Why was there a weapon at phratry and at a place where children could easily reach? It wasnt the boys fault but the parents. By that said no need to write more than that. 1 The Stone Boy page 1. 2 The Stone Boy page 4, line 106. 3 The Stone Boy page 4, line 112. 4 The Stone Boy page 5, line 142-143