Many authors today try to take the reader on some sort of a "journey" by reading his or her story, but few succeed. The majority of tales written in the last 100 years appear to be hackneyed and dull. However, once in a great while, there is an exception. Such is the case with Gina Berriault's story, "The Stone Boy". In this story, Berriault writes such an enrapturing story that the reader is "taken" in a sense to the farm, where the story takes place. Berriault accomplishes this difficult task by her use of description and the realistic interactions between a family after a terrible tragedy. The reader can either take the death