{"id":5649,"date":"2013-04-04T03:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T03:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:27:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:27:03","slug":"english-grammar-lesson-setting-and-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/2013\/04\/04\/english-grammar-lesson-setting-and-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"English Grammar Lesson: Setting and Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview:\u00a0 Location, Location, Location<\/strong>
\nThe setting of a story locates it in time or place.\u00a0 At times, the setting of a story can be so important that it is like another character.\u00a0 At other times, it is a backdrop to the action of the plot.\u00a0 The setting is not random, but deliberately chosen for essential clues to the story’s tone and theme.<\/p>\n

Settings Can Drive the Story<\/strong>
\nThe setting of a story is often essential to the plot.\u00a0 Ahab and the great white whale in Moby-Dick could only be in the ocean.\u00a0 Stories in The Martian Chronicles<\/i> by Ray Bradbury need the Red Planet as a backdrop.\u00a0 The African jungle is central to Heart of Darkness <\/em>by Joseph Conrad.\u00a0 In those stories, vivid description of the setting make the plot and characters come alive.<\/p>\n

Even when the setting isn’t as crucial, the story cannot take part in an empty universe.\u00a0 Characters need a backdrop of scene for the plot to make sense.\u00a0 The setting made fade into the background, but details of time and space are still necessary.\u00a0 Readers of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries are not always aware of 221B Baker Street and its environs in London, but the setting is still there.\u00a0 If the details were very important to the plot, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought them to the foreground.<\/p>\n

Settings Make the Tone Real<\/strong>
\nSome types of genres rely more heavily on settings, such as mysteries, thrillers, romantic stories, and science fiction.\u00a0 Exotic locations lend the air of escape to the everyday.\u00a0 Even when the setting is suburbia or Main Street, the setting provides clues to the tone of the story.\u00a0 Does it take place during the day, or at night?\u00a0 The rainy setting of Forks, Washington provides tone to the Twilight<\/i><\/strong> novels besides the connection with vampires abhorring sunny days.<\/p>\n

Settings Provide Insight into Theme<\/strong>
\nThe setting of Lord of the Flies<\/i> on a remote island, away from civilization, is essential to William Golding’s commentary on how thin the veneer is of civilized behavior.\u00a0 The jungle, animals, oppressive heat, and wilderness contribute to the development of theme as much as do the actions of the characters.\u00a0 The bleak future in dystopian novels such as Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, \u00a0The Hunger Games,<\/em> and Ammonite<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0provides insight into themes of control in a totalitarian society.<\/p>\n

Settings Tap into Universal Archetypes<\/strong>
\nSettings of stories tap into the universal struggle and conflict that people have within themselves.\u00a0 Moby-Dick<\/strong> is more than the struggle that Ahab has with the white whale.\u00a0 Set on a vast sea, it is ultimately the struggle and obsessions within Ahab that make reading Melville’s classic more than a story about whaling.\u00a0 Dr. Jekyll lives in a light-filled mansion, while Mr. Hyde is found in a dingy laboratory at the back of the same house.<\/p>\n

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Overview:\u00a0 Location, Location, Location The setting of a story locates it in time or place.\u00a0 At times, the setting of a story can be so important that it is like another character.\u00a0 At other times, it is a backdrop to the action of the plot.\u00a0 The setting is not random, but deliberately chosen for essential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[122,1615,1827,1836],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-and-grammar","tag-archetypes","tag-setting","tag-theme","tag-tone"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}