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Settings in these stories are extremely important.
Setting-locale time weather Summer night, 3rd day of summer vacation. 19. Setting is so much a part of the story.
So , the location of a story's actions, along with the time in which it occurs, is the setting. Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?..."
Ambiance is created by the author through setting. Sights, sounds, and, colors are all vividly painted in words. Often "a writer will seem to draw a setting mainly to evoke atmosphere" (p.118). Greasy Lake's secluded, grimy, and polluted atmosphere embodies the behavior of the teenagers and "bad" characters that visit Greasy Lake to engage in sexual acts, drinking, fighting, and smoking pot. The story takes place at the dead of night to evoke an atmosphere of fear, suspense, and gloom. Amy Tan's story includes two settings at different times. The first setting is of June May arriving in China and it is described as an unexpected "heat in October" (p. 136). China is also crowded, "And somehow the crowds don't bother me" (p. 136). This brings out an atmosphere of chaos which the protagonist does not seem to mind. She is surrounded by family and gets a feeling of closeness, "Lili is lying next to me. The others areÂ…sprawled out on the beds and floor" (p.140-141). An atmosphere of a close knit family in their home country where they are connected to the deep history and ethnicity is created. The next setting in the story is of her mother fleeing her town as the Japanese were invading. This setting gives the reader an atmosphere of a helpless mother escaping from the Japanese and her hurried attempt to save herself and her babies, "The roads were filled with people, everybody running and begging for rides from...
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