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, "". 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 betwe ....