Although drama is key to any story, short or long, the setting and the props surrounding the drama add a more dynamic element to the story. Raymond Carver is an example of a writer that utilizes day to day settings in all his stories and then adds props surrounding the characters. It is able to give more insight to the narrator’s personality that you wouldn’t learn if the props weren’t a part of the story or through dialogue. He is able to let the narrator speak about the narrator’s surroundings and most specifically the images and props he or she sees that provokes the narrator into vividly describing it to us through the writing of the author. I read the story “Viewfinder” by Raymond Carver. In this story, a man shows up at the narrator’s door to sell a photograph of the man’s house to him, but the narrator sees the photograph and sees himself standing in the window. The narrator invites him in for a cup of tea and decides he wants a photograph with his house. At the end, the narrator is seen on the roof of his house throwing rocks in the air and the man with the Polaroid camera trying to capture the moment when the rock is in motion. The imagery in this story is unique because although it takes place in a simple setting, a house, Carver uses that to his advantage by being able to vividly describe small items or moments within the house and between two characters. Carver zooms in on one specific prop, a Polaroid camera, and writes, “It was an old Polaroid, big and black.
Eadward Muybridge and Cornelius Jabez Hughes, two photographers of the 19th century, introduced revolutionary ideas impacting the way photographs could be taken, categorized, and used. Muybridge, better known as the ‘father of the motion picture,’ studied landscape photos and invented a device that drastically improved their quality. In addition, he helped to pioneer work in the studies of motion and motion-picture projection. Hughes developed new technology related to photography and helped to guide many other amateur photographers into producing better forms of photography. The two had lasting impacts on the growth and importance of photography in the art, science, and everyday realms.
Literature is a very explicit term that includes so many time honored written masterpieces. A narrative would be exceedingly dull if nothing ever occurred to the characters in a specific surrounding. One of the key elements that affects the plotline are the various major settings throughout the story. The setting is the scene in which a story takes place, which involves the time, the location, and the natural environment. It can also greatly affect the plotline of the novel and the mood of the characters. It can easily create the tone, or atmosphere, of a certain scene in a story. The characteristics of a setting pushes the audience to gain a feeling of the tension a character must experience, and thus the suspenseful tone is developed. There are two major settings that take place in A Prayer for Owen Meany, which greatly adds to the novel as a whole. They are Gravesend, New Hampshire and Toronto, Canada. These two locations are vitally connected to the distinct time period, which deeply explore the roles the characters play and how they are perceived by characters like John Wheelwright and Owen Meany.
The technical aspects of the production such as scenery, properties and costumes also played a keynote in the productions success. The scenery was fabulous it truly made the play. It was very realistic and extremely vibrant. Almost the entire play was performed in one setting, except for the railcar and dance scenes. The house, the main setting, was magnificent with painstakingly placed detail in every corner. All elements in the house matched wonderfully, for example the furniture, the photos on the wall, the telephone and even the trash can. Little bits of detail were everywhere adding to the beautification of the set, for example the lace decorations on the chairs, the etched glass above the front door and even the Christmas tree.
The character and the setting work together to help find the theme in multiple ways. The characters lives and works in the setting, while the setting and society helps influence the main character. The setting shows where the character lives in the world, and how the culture in
Every story has a setting. Whether it is in this world or one that is completely imaginary, the setting of any story is necessary in order to understand the characters. The characters in the following three short stories are shaped by their setting and would not be the same if the setting was different. Over the course of each story it is easy to see how vital the setting is in order for the reader to fully understand the characters and their lives. Therefore, while the reader reads these stories they must analyze how the setting affects the characters, the obstacles that the setting creates, and what it tells us about the characters.
In the story, "The Last Rung on the Ladder", Stephen King does a great job of showing how the setting impacts the characters, and how the setting affects the climax.
John Szarkowski, in his essay “Mirrors and Windows”, introduces two American photographers, Minor White and Robert Frank, and their photographs, “Windowsill Daydreaming” and “Butte, Montana”. While these two photographs are both of windows, the way they interact with them is
Setting and tone are both very significant within a play. With setting you're able to know the time and place of the events that are taking place, and what influences the character`s actions and behaviour. With the information regarding the setting you can determine how the play specifically reflects on the society that it takes place in, and what influence it has over the characters. The reader should be able to visualize the play with the reference of the setting. In addition, tone helps set the mood which is an crucial effort to determine the language of the character. The tone justifies the attitude of the narrator or the character's viewpoint.
The first element that made the play dramatic was the sound effects. The sound of the "Wyoming wind" was constant throughout the whole play, but as emotional scenes and climaxes occurred, the sound of wind
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
Before the invention of the camera, news traveled through word of mouth, writing, telegrams, and other forms of communication. Often times important moments were depicted through paintings, and drawings. Unfortunately, because of opinion and misinterpretation, many of those moments, had been depicted incorrectly. Take, for example the Boston Massacre which took place in the late 1700’s before the invention of the camera. In order to inform people of what is now known as the shot heard around the world, Paul Revere, a famous American revolutionist made an engraving of the scene.
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.
Photographs are also manifestations of time and records of experience. Consequently, writings on photographic theory are filled with references to representations of the past. Roland Barthes (1981, 76), for instance,
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
"Close all shutters and doors until no light enters the camera except through the lens, and opposite hold a piece of paper, which you move forward and backward until the scene appears in the sharpest detail. There on the paper you will see the whole view as it really is, with its distances, its colours and shadows and motion, the clouds, the water twinkling, the birds flying. By holding the paper steady you can trace the whole perspective with a pen, shade it and delicately colour it from nature."