How can i describe the setting of the story of a country boy quits school?
"A Country Boy Quits School" by Lao Hsiang is an endearing social satire. It is about a poor Chinese family which is forced to send its boy to school following an official proclamation, ignoring which would mean a jail term. How the English illustrations in books and the literal translation lead to much confusion and misunderstandings in his household is at the centre of the story. The boy is finally pulled out of the school.
Can someone explain how the setting of a story can affect the mood?
when you wake up in the morning would you feel more excited about your day if it was sunny and warm or rainy and gloomy. thats how.
How can I stop writing so many unoriginal books?
Most ideas have been done in one form or another. It's all a matter of taking unusual plots/subplots and combining them to make a new story. Or giving the setting a new twist, or completely revamping the cliched persona of a particular group/institution/creature, etc. So write your story and compile a list of typical "cliches" in that genre you are writing. Then, if you find these same cliches in your story, ask yourself how to do it differently. EX: instead of writing another teen, angsty harry potter rip off of a wizard kid in a wizard school...make that wizard older and stick him in a secret society, or change the setting altogether. Either way, your story is original b/c you wrote it. What makes it unoriginal is borrowing the majority of your characters/plots/settings/minor details. So change those around and put several unlikely plot lines together. EX: plot lines: prince rescues princess, evil witch wants princess dead. Change that to a Princess who's a leader of a rogue/criminal society who uses mythological creatures to test new magics in hope of forming a deadly weapon/spell. And the evil witch is really the hero and the princess' old protege but you're telling the story from the antagonists' point of view. These examples are crap and laughable at best but they show how you delete and insert new plot lines and turn cliched stories into something else completely.
What are the settings of the short story "A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury?
The setting of the short story is in the year 2055, presumably in the United States as it is an election year and the characters in the story are concerned about the candidates and which one will emerge victorious.There are two primary locations: the Time Safari building (no details are given as to location) and the distant past (Late Cretaceous). As to what city and state in the United States this all happens is left ambiguous by Bradbury.The main characters travel between the Late Cretaceous (wherever it was they went) and the Time Safari building. The setting does not change between these two locations.
Why is setting so important in stories?
Because a setting often defines a character and his or her upbringing. And setting often includes time period. For example, imagine a 1940's Nazi in one of the modern-day heavily Jewish suburbs of Chicago. He'd be shot on sight. Because peoples actions are often because they are products of the society they live in, what society, where, and when really matters!
Setting of lord of the flies?
The Lord of the Flies is set on a small, mountainous island that is covered in dense jungle and surrounded by various types of coastal landscape. The importance that these facts contribute to the book are numerous. For example, when reading The Lord of the Flies, one has a sense that the book almost has a claustrophobic tone. The boys seem unable to escape eachother, and the ultimate decline into savagery that is an indirect result of the size of the island. One must also consider the fact that the setting is a crucial element in any story. Without the proper setting, it is impossible to portray the emotional and sensational images that are needed to produce a sound book that follows a logical order of that. A strong setting results in a good read.
How does the setting in the story the outsiders affect the plot of the story?
The setting affects the plot in The Outsiders a LOT. First of all, the separation between the greasers and Socs have to do with the fact that the greasers live on the East side, and the Socs on the West. The East side being the dirtier side, and the West being the cleaner, nicer side. Also the setting of the Nightly Double are where Ponyboy, Johnny, Dallas, and Two-Bit met Cherry and Marcia which enraged Bob and Randy. The setting of the lot, where Pony and Johnny talk about a normal setting of the countryside. The setting of the local park where Bob and Randy corner Johnny and Pony after Darry hits Pony and Pony runs away, which is also the setting where Johnny stabs Bob. This causes he and Pony to go to Dallas for help, and then run away to abandoned church on top of the setting of Jay Mountain in Windrixville. Johnny and Pony then smoke in the church, causing it to catch fire with little kids trapped in it who come for a class picnic while the two and Dally go out to get something to eat. Johnny then runs with Pony and later followed by Dally, and gets severe burns, causing him to die in the setting of the local hospital the next day after the greasers win the rumble against the angry Socs. Johnny's death causes Dally to rob a store and willingly let the police shoot him in the setting by the store under a streetlight. Later that week, you see Pony in the setting of his messy house (which also classifies him and his brothers as greasers) reading a letter Johnny wrote to him just before he died, which Pony found in Johnny's copy of Gone With the Wind, set in the South. Pony then decides to write about what has happened to him in the past week. STAY GOLD!! :)
What's the plot and setting of the story: VISITATION OF THE GODS?
The book, Chariots of the Gods? No, Visitation of the Gods I found it for you, but you'll have to read it for yourself. ;)
Why did Disney move the setting for the Aladdin story from China to the Middle East?
Disney got it right. Your childhood book was inauthentic. Aladdin (علاء. الدين) of the lamp and Alibaba (علي بابا) of the 40 thieves are both characters in the stories that Shehrezade (شهرزاد) told over the 10001nights. These stories were meant to be from all over the world: Shehrezade is a Persian-sounding name, Sind-bad was meant to sound Hindi, and Aladdin and Ali-baba were meant to sound Arab by the original author, who lived during the Abbasid era when Baghdad was the capital of an empire that included Persia and parts of India. Some of Shehrezade's stories mention Baghdad by name, primarily where a densely urban setting is called for. Some even include as a character the caliph Harun El-Rashīd (who would have been a historical figure to the author of the 1001 Nights).The Chinese elements you recall from your childhood were most likely added by European publishers or illustrators. This would have happened centuries after the fact, mainly because they did not have the knowledge or perhaps the motivation to distinguish different locations that lay to the east of Europe.
Help me describe a setting?
Setting is defined as the time and place in which the action occurs. It fulfils several purposes: providing a credible situation for the character/s to be in. - the physical landscape. giving insights into the behaviours and attitudes of the character(s) - the mental landscape. The way in which you write about the place in which your story happens can add to the mood or ideas of the story itself. Remember that place and time exist in relationship with your characters. Creating a Setting: The setting can be an important part of the story but too many times, in the short stories contributed for competitions, the setting becomes a description based entirely on what can be seen. It reads like: "Mary woke up. Her bedroom was beautifully decorated with pale pink wallpaper, light coloured curtains and a neutral, wool carpet. The quilt across her bed was covered in patch-worked dolls and pink roses. Through the window she could hear the birds..." There may be something in this description that tells us something about Mary BUT if the writer keeps on with this for too long the reader will not learn anything about Mary or, for that matter, will the story make any progress. If the setting is important to the story the writer should, as well as establishing time and place, attempt to create a scene that makes use of the other senses the writer has. TASTE. SMELL. HEARING. TOUCH and SIGHT. How to write a character's mood? Get into their mindset right now. Who and what is troubling them? What's going on in the world around them? What is making them anxious? Excited? Upset? How would their face and body appear to the outside world? E-mail me for more help.