Setting Recap!

1. Setting Recap!

2. What is it? The setting of a story is the background of the story It is the placewhere the story happens and the timewhen it happens It answers the questions of where and when

3. Mood Setting is important for setting the mood of the story In a horror story, an old house filled with dust and cobwebs helps to heighten fear, especially if the story happens on a stormy night Similarly, desert, jungle or ocean settings can help create a sense of adventure in adventure stories

4. Character The setting of a story also tells us what kind of characters we can expect to meet in the story Example: In a story in a graveyard, there might be a ghost

5. Example Setting The rainstorm had ended and the gray mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by the wind. The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland. Never, never had Mary dreamed of a sky so blue. In India skies were hot and blazing; this was of a deep cool blue which almost seemed to sparkle like the waters of some lovely bottomless lake, and here and there, high, high in the arched blueness floated small clouds of snow-white fleece. The far-reaching world of the moor itself looked softly blue instead of gloomy purple-black or awful dreary gray. (The Secret Garden)

6. How we learn about setting: The setting is established here through vivid descriptive language such as “brilliant, deep blue”, ‘sparkle like the waters of some bottomless lake”, and “arched blueness”.

7. How we learn about setting cont. The use of pathetic fallacy in this passage creates a mood of hope and promise as the “dreary gray” of the night’s rainstorm is swept away and replaced by the deep, cool blue” of the morning.