Analysis Of The Last Rung On The Ladder

Setting plays a huge roll in almost everything that you read. In “The Most Dangerous Game” setting is a very important factor in the story. “Off there to the is a large island.” This quote shows setting and is important to the story because it shows that they feel like the island is a mystery. “The muttering and growling of the sea breaking on the rocky shore.” This setting quote is also very important because it gives detail and shows that this is calming to him. Without setting in this story it would be less understood because setting is what helps you understand the mood and feelings from their surroundings.

In the article “15 Years on the Bottom Rung” written by Anthony DePalma compares the story of a Greek and a Mexican immigrant, seeking better opportunities here in the United States. However, one succeeds and one doesn’t. One commonality is that they both resided in New York. Mr. Zannikos is the Greek immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1953 with 100 dollars to his name. Mr. Zannikos 19, left with no intent to go back to Greece. Once Mr. Zannikos arrived in New York he immediately started working and learning English. While working in a coffee shop the shop was raided by the cops and he was deported. Mr.zannikos snuck back in the United States and married a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, because of this he was able to gain citizenship giving him the opportunity to own his own restaurant “3 Guys”. 3 Guys became very successful in the South Bronx. In contrast, Mr. Peralta is a Mexican immigrant who came to the United States in 1990, whose father sent him because he was the first born and never able to have that opportunity for himself. Mr. Peralta 19, was out of a job for weeks waiting for job openings when he first arrived in New York. Once Mr. Peralta found a job opening he made enough money to pay back his father back, so he went back to Mexico to take care of his family and winds up getting married to Matilda while there. Mr. Peralta returns to New York with his new wife illegally. Living in poverty Mr. Peralta could only accept cheap labor jobs because he was not a documented citizen and didn’t know much English. DePalma explains in his writing why Mr. Peralta was not able to triumph in New York because of ethnicity, marriage, and language.

Good authors can create wonderful stories, but it all starts with the setting. Without the setting, the story will have no plot and the characters will have no reason to be there because the setting is a crucial element. Barry Callaghan, the author of “Our Thirteenth Summer” can effectively use setting as an important part of a story. The setting of “Our Thirteenth Summer” is in Toronto’s Annex District during the 1840’s, when the Holocaust was occurring. The setting influences the behaviour of the characters and reflects the society in which the characters live.

One way the setting has an impact includes the characters. The safe beach is an example of how the setting can impact the character. According to the story, “The boy . . . turned his eyes, which had a frown behind them, toward the bay and back again to his mother” (1). Jerry’s mother wants him to stay at the beach. She feels like the setting of the bay is dangerous, but Jerry feels the pull to explore the more dangerous bay. Secondly, the setting of the water gives Jerry a hard time. Jerry is trying to hold his breath under water so that it will not be hard to breathe while he is swimming (3). He is trying to learn how to control his breathing so he can swim better. He tried to put stones on his arms so he could stay under the water to help him. Also, another example is the tunnel. According to the author, Jerry “…tried to push himself in. He had got his head in, found his shoulders jammed, moved

Three specific examples of how setting influenced the actions and attitudes of the characters are: The isolation from a civilized world, the mysteries of an unfamiliar place, and different social types being forced to live with one another. How these examples are to be proven will be developed in the following paragraphs.

One setting from the novel that is important to the plot is the ranch, The ranch is where they were staying at until they have to go to China and Taiwan, it is also where they're parents are why they are in China and Taiwan. I chose this because it is important. It sets up for another book, and it is a good way to tell the reader about the story. I think it will help them understand the story.The ranch is where they were before they went to before going to China and Taiwan. This is where they're

Setting is very important because without the setting there is no initial story. As a reader a person cannot read a story without it having some sort of time frame or having a reference to where the story took place. The setting also shows that the characters in this story have to undergo different problems than other people in the world for example, “…complaining about the drought

A novel’s setting contributes to the atmosphere of a story in a myriad of ways. Setting provides insight of a character’s point of view, the culture of a specific time, and transports the reader to another world. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Shelley describes breathtaking scenes of nature in immense detail. Her descriptions of the Alps and the destroyed tree relate to the pursuit of knowledge, power and the idea of “playing God”, by providing places of contemplation and comparison for a reader to ponder on these issues.

Setting (including: time span of the story, time period in which the story is set, and place[s] in which the story is set)

First, In “Geography Matters” by Thomas C. Foster, he gives multiple examples of the different ways setting can impacted a story. For example, he said that geography can “define or even develop a character”. Barbara Kingslover’s Bean Trees involves an adolescent girl who lived in Kentucky, the girl felt as if there was nothing more for her in Kentucky so she drove away and started her new happier life, “what she discovers in the West are big horizons, clean air, brilliant sunshine, and open possibilities...she seizes the opportunities for growth and development” (“Geography Matters”) . The author goes over how everything would be much more different for her if she had stayed in Kentucky. Foster also explains how setting can mean emotions too as in swamp for sadness or a field of flowers for freedom. Also, setting can reveal the virtual element in the work itself such as theme and plot. Foster rips

TOPIC: Many plays and novels use contrasting places (for example, two countries, two cities or towns, two houses, or the land and the sea) to represent opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. Choose a novel or play that contrasts two such places. Write an essay explaining how the places differ, what each place represents, and how their contrast contributes to the meaning of the work.

The setting creates challenges and opportunities for characters. For example when Ellie was left vulnerable and when the climber in the poem “Ascent” has finger pain. In all different genres, setting affects the text whether it’s physical challenges or emotional challenges.

     Later that night, the narrator is awakened by fire in his house and immediately exited it. All but one wall of the house was destroyed. After the blaze was put out, a large crowd gathered around the remaining wall and were amazed at how a wall in the middle of the house could remain standing after a fire. The narrator approached the wall and thought that he knew what the audience is commenting about. He saw a gigantic cat with a rope around its neck. He is filled with wonder and terror when he saw that the cat is alive. In reality, though, the cat is not alive; the narrator is just having a delusion, which is a symptom of paranoia. He quickly calms his worries about how the cat survived by saying that an onlooker watching the fire must have seen that the cat was tied to the tree and released it. Making oneself believe what is not true is also a sign of paranoia. The cat could not have been alive because it was hung from the tree in the morning, while the fire started late at night.

The setting creates the enviornment for the entire story, the time and the place. Every single part of the story revolves around this. What the characters look like, how they talk to eachother, where they live, what is going on around them. The main conflict is even determined by the time period and where in the world it takes place. For example, the story "The Cask of Amontillado" is set in Paris, France around the rennaissance era. but theres more to the setting than just that. "It was about dusk one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that i encountered with my friend." This describes more about the enviornment around the characters in the beggining of the story. Then the setting shifts,"Its walls had been lined with

In most stories, the setting creates a backdrop for events to come, sometimes the setting dictates the theme as well as behavior of some of the characters. Between Edger Allan Poe’s The Fall House of Usher and Shirley Jackson’s The lottery, both writers were meticulously keen on using setting as a driving force behind the narrative and also set the tone for the theme.