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Chapter 10: Importance Of Weather In Literature

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Gurraj Purewal
Mrs. Sanchez
AP English Lit and Comp
5 July 2017
Importance of Weather
Chapter 10
You may say that every story need a setting and that weather is part of the setting. That is true, by the way, but it isn’t the whole deal (75).

In chapter 10 Foster discusses how weather plays a more important role than just being a part of the setting in literature. Weather helps us visualize the setting but it also usually has a symbolic meaning. Authors also use weather as a device to put characters in literature into certain situations that might not have been possible without the weather that the author is telling us about. Weather can also help us understand the theme. Weather such as rain can show us that there is a cleansing affect going

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