Fear Of Stone Analysis

The task of the title is to prepare the reader for what will be presented in the book. A good title hooks the audience in reading the whole literary work, since its main intention is to draw from the reader in order to get a first impression of it. Comparable to the functionality of a door peephole the view will not be fully clear, thus the title in many cases can be inconclusive and ambiguous, especially when one is not an English native speaker. For this reason, it is important to try to understand what is hidden behind those six words, so as to try to not lose sight of the small details that bring to completion the expanded picture. The first thing that clearly stands out in the stories of Kei Miller Fear of Stones and other stories is the …show more content…
Therefore, the stories according to the series editor are not considered as to be ‘pretty, and few are comfortable’. Thus, Miller by setting a word that embodies anxiety in the title triggers a path full of obstacles that prevents proper social adaptation, in such manner warning the audience to expect observable responses to immediate threads, especially that of stones.
In this paper the researcher will look closely to the significance of the word choice and the meanings which are evidenced in the book, the first word to be analyze is fear. The Oxford Dictionary offers three definitions of fear, the first caption is ‘an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm’ the second one ‘a feeling of anxiety concerning the outcome of something or the safety of someone’ and the third ‘the likelihood of something unwelcome happening’. Peculiarly all of this definitions can be associated with the reactions generated by many of the characters. One such example is appreciated in Walking on the Tiger Road where Idle Bwoy in the midst of carrying out a massacre reflected more concern towards being ‘gay’ than Mark, the individual, whose sexual identity was publicized …show more content…
Mostly, their goals are to live from time to time, overcome obstacles, and sometimes have a decent burial, but fear and stones in the road retain them from ongoing in their journey. It could be said that even though the book ranges between a vast number of themes the majority of the stories rephrase fear, certainly not just to stones, but the idea of fear is present in general terms. The ascription of Miller to the so called ‘magical realism’ works as an explanation of the factual origin of his eccentric stories and how they turned out to exploit human behavior. Thus, so far we can ascertain based on a short analysis of the title that we face some distressing accounts, which are spoken in a variety of voices as they are various stories that collect unusual situations. Such situations are governed by fear, thus characters draw on obeah and the mystical to pursue knowledge or basically that is their response to not simply survive their condition as outcasts of society, but really