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Setting

Setting. It’s all about location, location, location. What is Setting. Place Time ….of an event. Deeper….Scuba…Level. Setting determines what IS and what IS NOT possible. Behavior of people Who will follow rules ? What happens when / if someone breaks “rules” ?.

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Setting

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  1. Setting It’s all about location, location, location

  2. What is Setting • Place • Time • ….of an event

  3. Deeper….Scuba…Level • Setting determines what IS and what IS NOT possible. • Behavior of people • Who will follow rules? • What happens when / if someone breaks “rules”?

  4. Why Does Setting Matter? • All ties back to THEME • The author’s comment on humanity • The universal LESSON the author is trying to teach • How does WHERE matter? • How does WHEN matter? • How do rules that are FOLLOWED and BROKEN matter?

  5. Example • What is the author trying to teach us if… • Everyone follows the “rules” even when the leaders are mean and corrupt? • People start to rebel (break the “rules”) against that corrupt leadership?

  6. What do Expert Readers Do? • Pay attention to the important parts of setting! • Read the unstated “rules” of the setting.

  7. Three Parts of Setting • Physical • Temporal (time and duration) • Social and Psychological

  8. 1) Physical • Geography • Climate • Physical features

  9. Geography

  10. Large City vs Small Town

  11. Climate

  12. Physical Features

  13. Invited to a Party….What matters? • Address? • Streets? • Neighborhood? • Which side of the tracks that it is on? • Which “side of the tracks” that it is on? • What property it is near?

  14. Some Kind of Wonderful

  15. 2) Temporal (Time) • Period or era in which the story is set. • Duration of time of the story.

  16. Hint… • Short time – probably focusing on personal-level issues • Longer time – probably focusing on society-level issues

  17. 3) Social and Psychological • Human dimension

  18. Rule Following • Characters must follow the rules of the setting…. • Certain things must happen • Cannot stray from the probable

  19. Breakin’ the Rules

  20. Genre Specific TYPES of stories • Fantasy • Allow certain creatures / adventures to happen • Sci-Fi • Must be based in science • Historical Fiction • Must be based in history

  21. Describe the Three Levels of Setting

  22. Describe a Holiday Gathering

  23. Tithe by Holly Black She slipped inside the hollow hill. The air itself seemed thick with sweetness, and breathing was disorienting. Long, low tables were heaped with golden pears, chestnuts, bowls of bread soaking in buttery milk, pomegranates ripped in half and half again, violet petals on crustal plates, and all manner of strange delicacies. Wide silver goblets sat like toads on the tables, upright and overturned in equal proportion. Scarlet-clad faerie ladies brushed past men in torn rages, and courtiers danced with crones.

  24. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspaper. It is simply there, when yesterday was not. The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen. No color at all, save for the neighboring trees and the grass of the surrounding fields. Black-and-white stripes on great sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought iron fence encasing them in a colorless world. Even what little ground is visible from outside is black or white, painted or powdered, or treated with some other circus trick.

  25. Who Lives Here? What Do They Look Like? Act Like?

  26. What are These People’s Stories?

  27. Describe the Relationship Between These Characters.

  28. What Does this Setting Feel Like in Summer? In Winter?

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