Jonah And Chip's Neighborhood Of Liston, Ohio

A common theme throughout the book so far has been moving, whether it be due to the fact that the fake “FBI” is coming after them or that they simply get bored of the location. This passage also reveals that Lori may not always like moving, and tells of “The Prospector.” This however, is not a person but an item, that may make the Walls family rich. Yet, with the family having absolutely no money, I predict that this contraption may never be built. (84 words)

In Harold Bell Wright’s novel “The Shepherd of the Hills,” setting plays a tremendous role in creating an effective story line and contribute multiple aspects to enhance the accountability of the story. Setting is one of the most valuable aspects of a successful novel and plays a part in creating a sense of realness to the reader. Winifred Madison, an author of multiple novels, says that “One of the joys of reading is that it takes you somewhere else or, by comparison, makes the place where you live more understandable” (1). “The Shepherd of the Hills” has a setting that the author personally connects to the real-world location. Just as Daniel Howitt was an outsider, Harold Bell Wright visited the Ozarks as a stranger and experienced the

The setting of the novel is in Los Angeles in a number of places, including a professional and a school football field, a school, and multiple houses. This shows that extraordinary and unusual things can happen anywhere, even in the most common places such as school and people’s homes. (Lupica) Another detail this portrays is that in LA, the football team is not very good and doesn’t win a lot of games. Throughout the story, in the setting of LA, things seem bleak for the Bulldogs, as they are every year, but the team still keep going and turns out to be a playoff caliber team.

In the book Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell chooses to create the story in Omaha, Nebraska, around the time of the 80s, a period where small references to walkmans and comic books found their way into the novel. The author’s choice of setting impacts how the characters, namely the title characters, Eleanor and Park, interacted and fit within the community. To the “Flats”, a town where Eleanor and Park lived in, they were considered outcasts in their predominantly white neighborhood. Like how Eleanor described it, “if you weren’t born in the Flats (if your family didn’t go back ten generations…) you were an outsider”(Rowell 312). Rainbow Rowell choose to create the setting in the 80s in order to emphasize the connection

The environment in the story is very beautiful, almost perfect. The garden is described with positive words and it makes associations to paradise, for example “In Mrs. Swinton’s garden, it was always summer”. The Swintons’ house lies in a rich part of the city with no windows. The house and their belongings are very advanced and technical, and it’s clear that there has been a big technological development, for example Monica has her phone on her wrist “She punched the Post Office number on the dial on her wrist but nothing came through” and “The Swintons lived in one of the ritziest city-blocks, half a kilometer above the ground. Embedded in other apartments, their apartment had no windows to the outside; nobody wanted to see the overcrowded external world. Henry unlocked the door with his retina pattern-scanner and walked in, followed by the serving-man”. It seems like they don’t really have contact to the outside world and live in a small bubble of isolation.

The setting is very joyful, graceful and inviting, but within the town hides much evil (mostly Miss Strangeworth) which one might also say is fairly ironic. The author is very skilled at making a well developed setting, which suits the themes of deception, secrets and incorrect first impression very well and makes the reader think more to conceive what is really happening or how the setting connects to theme, characters and other literary devices.

The reader will find it difficult to draw connections between these neighbors and themselves when they hardly even know many intimate details about the lives of these characters. However, this is because the reader is put into a position where they are viewing characters from an outside perspective in the same way that the neighbors view each other: with little information about their lives. This is backed up in Neal Alexander’s article, titled “Profoundly Ordinary: Jon McGregor and Everyday Life”, where Alexander comments on the anonymous nature of the neighborhood, stating “The calculated anonymity that results is clearly intended to make a point about the nature of contemporary urban life, where neighbors typically maintain a defensive reserve toward one another” (Alexander 729-730). The novel maintains a type of irony in that it must detach the reader from the story in order to connect them in the same way that the characters are connected.

We start out in Lake Windsor, the housing development where Paul and his family live. Their neighborhood is nestled in among a bunch of other ritzy developments with fancy-sounding names, like the Manors of Coventry, and the Villas at Versailles. Lake Windsor even has its own middle and high school, so, for the first part of the book, the Fisher family's lives revolve around that one area of town. Mrs. Fisher heads up their Home Owner Association Architectural Committee, Erik joins his school's football team, and even Paul makes friends in their neighborhood.

1. What descriptive details does the author use to make it clear that the setting of the story is a small town?

     As driving into Hickory, Indiana, a tiny town, I see that every house has a basketball hoop on the side of their barn. The little town consists of one main street. It has the local supermarket, barbershop, hardware store and some other small stores. While driving on the main street, I noticed that everyone notices a stranger coming into town. That is how small Hickory is. Driving into the high school parking lot I see that the girls dominate the young men by far. Looking around I also see that everyone is talking about the basketball game that night.

The Godfrey mansion, Roman’s home, is one of the main places that the author focuses on. The large estate is set in the middle of a dense brush, with a lengthy driveway leading up to it. It’s quite extravagant on the inside, a maze of vintage-looking large rooms. For only three people, the father of the family committing suicide when Roman was young, it is almost too big, and sets a lonely mood to whichever scene they are in the house. Another staple in the Hemlock Grove setting is the trailer in which Peter and his mother Lynda live in. It is located on the edge of the town by a stagnant swamp, and it is all but falling apart. Although it is a small living space, the two make the best of it, filling it with family trinkets from their multiple previous dwellings. Lastly, the Godfrey Institute (White Tower) is an extremely important place. It’s a big, white almost skyscraper-like building owned by the Godfrey family, run by scientific genius Dr. Johann Pryce. Much of the complicated drama that occurs in this book takes place here, or the experiments going on in it are the root of the problems caused. All in all, the setting of the story gives a welcoming yet eerie feel to these events. At first glance, it is a town that would seem fit for quiet inhabitants who are looking for a rest from the city life, but as you delve deeper into the book, there is so much more to be

The specious story begins in the town of Eatonville, Florida during the midst of the Great Depression. The narrator describes the home of Missie May and Joe Banks, which is within the first all-black town incorporated in America, “It was a Negro yard around a Negro house in a Negro settlement…But there was something happy about the place. The front yard was parted in the middle by a sidewalk from gate to door step, a sidewalk edged on either side by quart bottles driven neck down into the ground on a slant.” (Hurston 884) At first, one would just assume that this house resembles a happy, perfect home of a loving couple. Everything is prim and proper, as it should be. The narrator leads on, “A mess of homey flowers planted without a plan but blooming cheerily from their helter-skelter places. The fence and house were whitewashed. The

This landlocked, drab midwest city in the fluorescent ’80’s impeccably fits the setting and plot of the book, which took place from 1986 to ‘87. Most families living there are average-middle class, but there were some parts in town that looked as if they didn’t belong, like Eleanor’s. "The only upside to living in this effed-up neighborhood was that everybody else was effed-up, too," she thinks. "The other kids might hate Eleanor for being big and weird, but they weren't going to hate on her for having a broken family and a broke-down house. That was kind of the rule around here,” shows that everywhere in the world is subject to poverty. The author’s language used to describe Eleanor’s house is negative and drabby. Eleanor’s house is protruded as prison-like and gloomy unlike Park’s

The primary locations in this novel is in Sweet Home, a small farm containing slaves in Kentucky, and 124 Bluestone Road on the edge of Cincinnati, Ohio. Although the novel starts out in the home of Sethe and her daughter, Denver, Sweet Home is where Sethe’s experiences to the past begins. In Sweet Home, the slave system was taken over by Mr. and Mrs. Garner, a kind couple who treated their slaves like human beings. 124 becomes personified through the paranormal activities in the house, and through the chapter names; 124 was spiteful, 124 was loud, and 124 was quiet. Mr. Bodwin, the owner of 124, tells how the house has a history of paranoia, "Women died there: his mother, grandmother, an aunt and an older sister before he was born" (259).

So let’s change the setting of this book to be in a large city such as Seattle, so much as to keep the book in Washington. This immense change would make the book very interesting. The main characters frequently mention how far they live away from other cities or how small things are in their town. For example, the main character, Mikey, has a conversation with his two sisters that only took a few minutes, but they started it before they got on a highway and it ended right when they got off. This shows how small everything is in their town, they were able to have a small conversation for the entirety of the highway. If they were in Seattle, it would have not been that quick, they could have hardly had the same conversation on a highway in Seattle. This really changes the book and the whole feel of it because the small town feel