The setting takes place in Hillsboro, a fictional town. This story takes place "not too long ago."
"It could have been yesterday. It could be tomorrow." The author makes the place and time so vague because this could happen anywhere. This setting is significant because the fictional town is in the Bible Belt, and people there take their religion very seriously. When Cates taught evolution, the whole town was turned upside down. This is connected to the real world
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The realistic setting of the novel starts out in a small town down south called Little Bend in Colorado but progresses to up north in a well-known town called Dover in Vermont. The main character, Cody Laredo, has a perfect life. He’s a great quarterback on his high school football team, he might be able to get a full college scholarship, and he’s dating the prettiest and smartest girl in town, but all his luck changes. He hurt his leg preventing him from playing sports, and his girlfriend, Clea, moves away to a boarding school in Vermont. When he thinks all his bad luck is over, he finds out that Clea went missing in Dover. Cody’s life gets turned
The board of education was in Champaign County, Illinois which had let teachers with religious beliefs come into the public schools to provide 30 to 45 minutes of weekly religion instructions for the kids in grades fourth though ninth that was in public schools. Parents had printed cards that they signed authorizing that their children were able to attend these classes, and absences were reported to the school authorities. The ones that did not attend the religious instructions were not excused from any of their regular classes. The teachers were employed by the Champaign Council on religious education at no cost to the schools. They had classes that were offered to the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish students. Programs were very popular
The story starts in Deerfield, in October of 1703 with a time of trouble. The town is in danger of being ransacked and taken over by Indians. The townspeople contemplate reinforcing their stockade but before
This story takes place in a small town in pennsylvania.This book takes place in the present day though the plot involves arthurian legend.Most of the book takes place in jax’s guardians house riley.The setting influenced the book because the small dark town made the book creepy yet intense and exciting.The cool setting makes you feel as if you were right there with the main protagonist jax.The town is small,quiet,and dark and there are nearby stores in various corners.
What is the setting (where does the story take place, and what time of year is it)?
Narrative Form – Location - Railroad tracks present as well as steam engine indicates a time period after the 1700’s
In the beginning of the text our narrator tells us that the story takes place in Winthrop [153, Ln. 2]. The story is set in the winter, in “the year the war began” [153, Ln. 2-3].
The setting of this book takes place in Killdeer, Oklahoma (pg 2). This story took place in 2010, during the Iraq war. The town Killdeer, was named after the Killdeer bird that was popular in that area. The town had a population of 30,000. The book often talked about red dirt roads and their local Walmart, meaning they had a small country town. The story talks about the house she lives in, Red Earth, Viaduct and a paintball course. Even though there was few setting described, the ones that were used were important to the
Our Town takes place in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire around the turn of the century. (1900’s). This play uses a lot of flashbacks. There’s one with George and Emily when they first fall in love at Mr. Morgan’s shop. It also uses foreshadowing. When they told of how everyone died. Another flashback is when Joe comes back after about ten years and they talk about the dead and everyone’s lives.
The place the story is set in is Dentin, Texas mostly in Freedom (until it
In examination of the text, one of the first steps is to describe the setting (Sellnow, 2014, p. 55). The story takes place in a small farm town in Oregon where no one really makes anything of themselves. Dottie and Kit leave this setting to demonstrate that taking chances and following one’s dreams can make their life great. Dottie and Kit go against the norm of
The setting of the book is in the New England state of Woburn, Massachusetts. This is a sleepy little community that is overcast by local factories. The factories
This novel and the stories within take place on a ranch that is in the high mountains of Salinas, California in the early 1930’s. The house of the Tiflin
setting takes place in a small village consisting of about three hundred people. On June