Stone of Farewell

Stone of Farewell
Tad Williams
1990

Williams has an extensive use of vocabulary and he is able to use his wide vocabulary throughout his book. The first thing Williams does is impress his readers by using such words as notion, vengence, belie, sorely, eddied, gawky,discreetly, fetch, plied, shrew, courteously, melancholy, exhilarating, etc. etc. This wide range of vocabulary is quite impressive to any young boy that would probably read this book. However, the vocabulary is not so dense that the book becomes incapable to understand. Williams tag-teams his impressive vocabulary with his simple sentence structures to create an impressive readable book. This is the thing that really made the book fly off the shelves.
Williams word choice pushes me to label him as a genius. I am almost positive that Williams vocabulary is bieng held back. Williams sounds like a fairly intelligent man and when he writes his book I believe he holds some of his complicated words back. By holding his complicated words back, Williams is able to not confuse the reader and still write an impressive book that draws the reader into the story and engage them in the main characters conflicts. Overall, Williams extensive use of voabulary, when used to a certain extent, is able to influence the reader and draw them into the books content.