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Analysis The Blue Stones 2
Analysis The Blue Stones 2
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The story was written by Isak Dineson. She was born in Denmark and
spent most of her life in British East Africa, now Kenya. Dinesen is best
known for her autobiographical narration published in 1937 'Out of
Africa'. Another famous book, 'Seven Gothic Tales' includes the stories
set in Europe hundreds of years ago.
The story 'The Blue Stones' is short and it seems simple. The skipper
named his ship after his wife, "He had the figurehead of it beautifully
carved, just like her, and the hair of it gilt". His wife was jealous about his
passion, she even thought that he liked the ship more than her.
Soon after that, the wife found that her eyesight was growing worse, and
she could not see to thread a needle. She was going blind; she cried, "I
should have the glass taken out, and the jewels put back." She wanted to
do it but it was not possible. This sailing was last for her husband. She
got a letter from the Consul of Portugal, that the ship had wrecked, "And
it was a very strange thing, the Consul wrote, that in broad daylight she
had run straight into a tall rock, rising out of the sea."
Every reader could make their own conclusion about the moral of the
story and maybe find some parallels according to their own life's
experience.