Literature - Setting hv456

Literature - Setting hv456

Literature - Setting

Desk

Literature desk: Setting

The word ‘setting’ is used to identify and establish the time, place and mood of the events of the story.
It basically helps in establishing where and when and under what circumstances the story is taking place.
The setting is important to a story. It can have immense effects on the plot and the characters.

Questions to answer for your book report: Setting

  1. Where is the location of the story? List the country, region, locale, and exact place of most of the story.
  2. When is the story taking place? What year, season, and time of day dominate the story?
  3. What do you sense about the setting? Describe the smells, tastes, sights, sounds, and physical feelings.
  4. What emotions are linked with the setting?
  5. Does the setting act as a source of conflict? How and with what effect on the characters?
  6. Does the setting act as a character in the story? How?

Introduction

Introduction
Think of your favourite story or movie. Think of the characters, what happened, the decisions that they had to take and their relationships. Now imagine that it took place on a pirate ship at sea and in a different time period.  Would the story still work? Probably not.
The setting is really important with stories.
And the setting often creates the atmosphere, or mood of a story or a certain scene.

Think of a lost child in the forest. With tall trees that prevent sunlight shining through, with animals that make creepy sounds, and the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind. This is a nervous and creepy setting. This description helps the reader to feel the lost child’s emotion and so suspense is created.

Through the description of place, the reader can relate to the mood of the characters in the story.

This section contains 2 steps. Work them through step by step.

Step Activity
1 Sentences about setting. Read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
Describe and make notes on settings.
2 Read the Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
Answer the questions.

 

Difficult words? Search these on Cambridge Dictionaries

 

Step 1

Which sentences of the following are part of ‘setting’?

  1. It was a cold, windy night and the moon was shining brightly.
  2. As she walked home, she knew that there was only one person she needed to see.
  3. The huge waves crashed onto the beach, each wave in time with a dreadful thought in his head. It was time to start.
  4. The morning song had started, the sweet scent of the spring flowers ever present as they wandered aimlessly through the village.

Think about books or a movie that you have read recently.
Write down information about the setting (physical place – how this relates to the characters mood/plot, and the time that it is set).

Read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
Describe and make notes on the following settings.

  • Manderley
  • The time it is set
  • East wing vs West wing
  • Italy
  • Monte Carlo

Step 2

Read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.

  • Describe King’s Abbot.
  • How does the setting of King’s Abbot contribute to the success of the murder mystery?

Answers

Literature: setting

 

Step 1:

Sentence b is part of the setting.

Suggested answers:
taken from:
http://www.shmoop.com/rebecca-book/setting.html

Click here to read the text about Rebecca's setting.

 

Step 2:

Students give their own answers.

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