Roberts Ch 6

   Heres the chapter I've been waiting for.  We all know how important it is to have setting in our stories but to write about setting is even more significant. 

    As mentioned in this chapter, setting in literature is extremely crucial.  Picture a movie, completely done in a white room.  Thats it, a room, no color, no props, nothing.  Do you think you would understand as much, or even want to understand when you werent interested.  The setting helps grab and hold you.  The setting gives us every detail we need to understand the understanding of the story, if that makes sense.

    In this chapter, it also mentions how some settings may be symbolic.  Like I mentioned, it is crucial in almost every story to know and understand what exactly is going on.  Which means you need to know where the characters are, what the characters are doing, what is around them, etc.  There is jsut so much we couldnt do without when it comes to the setting of any story.

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