Archetypal Settings
After the sands of time had flown by, finally was the protagonist permitted entrance to the Garden.
What is Paradise? What is Safety? What is Afterlife? What is Peace?
If plot & action are what happened, and characters are the who. Then setting is the ... ?
What is Where and When?
What's the title and the author of the short story we had to read?
Volar and Judith Ortiz Cofer
This is one way setting can affect a character’s behavior.
What is behavior?
When the environment creates problems for characters, it contributes to this story element.
What is conflict?
Calypso looked up to the sky, watching the flock of birds soar in the distance. The Island deep in uncharted waters.
What is isolation? What is self confrontation?
What Edgar Allen Poe story is mentioned when referring to how setting establishes a base for readers?
What is "The Fall of the House of Usher" ?
What 2 things did the 12-year-old girl have a stack of in her bedroom closet?
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A strict society or environment often limits a character’s ability to do this.
What is freedom or choices?
A natural disaster creating danger is an example of this type of conflict.
What is character vs. nature?
Chills crawled out of the pores of his skin, the flame of the torch illuminating only mere inches around him. When gazing upon the Cavern he could feel something staring right back.
What is uncertainty? What is danger?
From the fantasy novel by Italo Calvino, what makes Argia differ from other cities?
What is that it has earth instead of air?
What did the girl do to her landlord in her dream?
She played a trick on him. She blew a little puff of her super breath into his fireplace, and it scattered the money everywhere, so he had to count again.
A character raised in poverty is an example of how setting can influence this.
What is personality or values?
A setting that restricts movement or communication increases this element of the story.
What is tension?
Once banished out to the Desert, the sensation of lackluster revealed itself.
What is bare? What is minimal? What is emptiness? What is stripped to the core?
Details of the setting can even hint the story's ... ?
Why did the father disagree about going to Puerto Rico?
The father was worried about how much it would cost and that he couldn't take time off of work.
This happens when a character struggles against the environment they live in.
What is character vs. environment conflict?
The setting can cause conflict by limiting characters’ access to this.
What is resources or opportunities?
At the end of it all, the journey came to a halt at the Cross Roads. Was it all truly over?
What is internal conflict? What is place of decision? What is choice?
Plenty of fairy tales use archetypal settings with a lack of details to incite readers to do what?
What is to see the conflicts and aspects of human experience?
What is "Ay, si yo pudiera volar" translated to English?
Oh, if only I could fly.
This element is created by the reader based on how the setting is described.
What is character development?
If the story were moved to a different place or time, this element would likely change.
What is the plot or the conflict?