Each novel has a setting or multiple settings. How does your author create images of the setting? If you had to describe the time/place of when your novel takes place, how would you do this? Does the author use the setting to help develop the plot in your book? What particular images does the author create that are memorable? Is there a particular scene you can visualize, and why is this image so vivid?
**In response to the blogs, try to make connections with your novel's setting. How is your setting similar to that of other books?
The author of my book does a really good job at this! She described the huge timber that Ashley is alone in and that she is living off of. The scene that stuck out the most to me was when Ashley goes to the crick to wash her hair. While washing her hair she finds a tick and then eats the tick as she has nothing else to eat.
ReplyDeleteOh wow eating ticks sounds discusting! I would love to live like her besides having no camping things.
DeleteInteresting eating ticks. gross. your book sounds interesting. that's kind of like my book they have some interesting and awkward people in it.
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Deletehey what's wrong with eating insects! And my book has a bit of survival in it.
Deletemy author does a great job of being descriptive also!
DeleteEating ticks doesnt sound very good. But i can understand it if you dont have anything else to eat.
DeleteAll the setting of the book takes place in many places. Mainly houses or weird places where hostages take place. If i described it would be like a semi driver. The one thing i can visualize is Gary negotiating the suspects as they cower inside the place that there hiding in.
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DeleteMy author doesn't really describe the outside world as much as he describes certain places like Michaels house or where he goes to school
Deletethe author always takes place in the night, when the killer is on the loose. he never kills in the daytime because that's the only time when they're a lot of people out. he uses this setting by making it intense and scary! and he likes to capture people and turn them into their own!
ReplyDeletethe author actually shows the bombs going off, or the blood spurring out of their necks when he slits their throat. I can see this all of the time when I'm reading, or another thing to mention is that the "good guys," also kill innocent civilians too!
In my book the main character Celina lives in a house that has had many paranormal experiences. The author does a good job making these scenes intense and scary as well! Your book sounds like the author does a very good job describing the settings, and really making you feel like you are there.
DeleteThat does sound like the author sets a very intense and suspenseful tone to the story.
Deleteive only heard things about this book from you but seeing how its going seems interesting
Deleteyour book sounds like it would be a interesting book to read
DeleteMy author doesn't really go into details on the setting. but if I had to go into detail I would say that the setting is basically just normal town with a peaceful community that worries about each other making it feel it feel like this novel take place during 2000 to 2010. this is kind like the beginning of the novel of The Kite Runner when it was all peaceful and friendly. the scene that really stuck was the scene right after Taylor was kidnaped and she describes the inside of the van and how it was made to move prisoners the reason why I choose because it is very descripted and generates fear for Taylor's life.
ReplyDeleteIn my book, the main character also lives in a small and peaceful community, where everyone knows everyone.
DeleteYour book is like mine it goes from settings to settings like Staying fat for Sarah Brynes.
DeleteMy author is the complete opposite and goes really in depth with all the different settings.
DeleteMy setting is different than yours because mine takes place a lot longer ago than yours does. Mine takes place in the 1970s, and it was a lot more different back then.
Deleteok so, in my book, everyone knows everyone and it is a nice town, but what you guys don't know is that their little town is run Nazis that basically say what they wanna say, do what they wanna do, and have a schedule on when people get up, and when they go to sleep. If you don't follow the rules, then you get shot. So I'd agree with y'all, it does get into depth a lot.
DeleteMy book doesn't give much detail either, leaving me to imagine the scene myself as well.
Deletemy book takes place in world war 2 where they were walking the next step could be there last and he does a good job of putting that in you head. he also describes the home land of the natives really well so you can just get the images in your head of the little run down homes they live in.
ReplyDeleteMy author does a good job of describing the setting of Manderley, which is a British estate, similar to how your author describes the homeland of the natives living there. The reader really gets a feel for the staff and residents of Manderley in a grand, formal sense of living where one has tea daily at half past four.
Deleteworld war 2 is a good time of history to read about because no story is the same and they are all intresting
Deleteevery book about WW2 seems to be different is some ways
DeleteAuthors that write about WWII they all have different ways of describing the land but they always put so much detail into it that in some way really puts a vivid image in reader's heads
DeleteMy author does a great job at describing the settings. In particular when Celina's parents moved into their new house, Celina used imagery to capture the setting. If I had to describe the setting of this it would be a normal sized home in a friendly neighborhood with cars going by every so often. The grass was green, and the house was newly renovated. One things that the author of my book said that was memorable to me was when Celina's parents first walked in the house they were sold. But what didn't make sense if the previous owners ad the ones who built the home were wanting to move out only 5 months after building it. A particular scene I can visualize is when Celina was around 6 she came home from a day out in the town with a red helium filled balloon. She was proud of herself for not losing the balloon the whole way home, but as soon as she stepped into the front door she lost grip of the sting an the balloon floated to the top of the tall ceilings. This made it impossible for her parents to even get it down. This scene is so vivid to me because everyone has done this at least once in their lives so I can put myself in Celina's shoes and know exactly how she feels.
ReplyDeleteI love when the author goes in depth with describing things in the novel it makes it that much better to read. You can understand things better when they go more in depth with the story.
DeleteMy author also does an excellent job of using description of the setting. In my novel, Manderley is a British estate in which they live. Their living arrangements and description of their living environment is on a very vivid, grand scale.
DeleteI can connect to the balloon situation in your book. I used to work at a place that filled up balloons for customers and I have lost balloons many times like Celina did!
DeleteIn my novel Sweetness the author describes the setting with the different environments Walter Payton was at. He would describe on what the environment was like for how the world was like back in the 1960s where white and black people still didn't see eye to eye with each other yet and it is a very interesting to learn about how the world is different compared to today. It sets a interesting tone in the book that makes me want to learn more of what the world was like back in the day.
ReplyDeletesounds like a interesting book and I can connect it to As A Driven leaf because the people and the beings of higher power don't see the same
DeleteMy book talks about around the same time as yours as well. It takes place in the 1970s, and I agree that it is definitely different now compared to then.
Deletei should read that book, walter payton is one of my favorite mfl past players and racism is a intresting topic to learn about. Go Bears
DeleteMy book is somewhat similar in the ways of people looking down on others because the Church in the novel is very overbearing and think that everything there god does is right and you can feel how it would be to be suppressed because of the vivid detail going into the different differences.
DeleteIn my book she does a great job describing her memories and even what she sees when shes going on her trip with her boyfriend. one of a memories that she described was when she has memories about when she was a teen she was sleeping in her bed and all of a sudden she wakes up and a man in black was standing in her window just watching her sleep just swaying back and forth.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I wonder what her dreams were about, if maybe thats where the man in black is coming from!
DeleteHer dreams sound very interesting! What book are you reading?
DeleteLooks like a good book I wonder what the book is, looks like a book I would like.
DeleteLooks like a good book I wonder what the book is, looks like a book I would like.
Deleteokay that unknown one with the memories above is Hannah Kalb its not letting me sign back in.
ReplyDeleteThe author of my book, Daphne du Maurier, does an excellent job of describing the scenery and surroundings of what is a wealthy British estate known as Manderley. The reader definitely gets a feel for the rigidness of the lifestyle there. Everything takes place at a certain time, i.e. tea is always at half past four. Also, the time period I would say is approximately the 1930s from the description of the vehicles and the clothing, etc. The author definitely uses the setting to develop the plot in the book as, Rebecca, the former wife of Maxim, is deceased and everything in the household remains exactly placed as it was when Rebecca lived there. Also, the staff at Manderley continue to display flowers in the vase that Rebecca would use and place them in the same place Rebecca would, even when the new wife of Maxim asks them to do otherwise. The author is very vivid with her details, especially when describing Rebecca's sailing accident in which her body was not found for a few months later and how she was missing her arms, etc. Furthermore, how the west wing of Manderley, which was where Rebecca and Maxim shared a bedroom has been left the exact same and is cleaned and maintained regularly. Rebecca's clothing remains in the closet which now contains a musty smell, and even her nightgown is laid out on the bed as if she will be returning.
ReplyDeleteI read this book! I agree, the author does an amazing job describing the scenery and different places. I felt like i was actually there in the book!
DeleteIn As A Driven leaf the author sets the setting with a prologue and then goes into book Discussing Greek beings with a lot of power and talking about how their people can only use certain things to write with like slaves and they were mentioning Jews and it reminded me of the holocaust with the parts of them limiting their people to use or do certain things.
ReplyDeletei reaed a book like that that set kind of setting in the prologue and then went back and tells how things happen
DeleteMy book is kinda like that but there are there is rebels and there is kids and people they started shooting so everyone ran. Then some kids they make them kill their parents.
DeleteThe author of my book, Jane Smiley, created a setting in a small town called, Zebulon County, Iowa on a large farm of one thousand acres, that is owned by Larry Cook. In the beginning, they talk about how they think that the land is perfectly flat, desolate, and lonely. The book was set in the late 1970s, so it was not a highly advanced time like it is now with farming. I imagine older tractors and equipment being used. The scene that stuck out to me the most was when Rose took car rides with her father. I could visualize the older style vehicles.
ReplyDeleteyou book seems like a book that would keep you interested in reading the whole time
DeleteOur books are kind of the same in the sense that they were set in the 70's
DeleteMy author is kind of the same as in the vehicle aspect because they put lots of details to the certain things like cars and other sorts of things.
Deletein my book the road, the author uses the setting of a post apocalyptic world to tell his story, The author is really good at using imagery to describe the world around the main characters as we dnt know the names of the characters it helps alot with building the world. one good one he does is he describes the air.
ReplyDeleteMy auther also does a great jpb explaining how the air and area around is! Explaining how the air is dry on the first day of school.
Deletei agree that he does do a really good job at the description but i think it would make it more interesting if he put more places in the book
Deletei dont know anything about the book but how would he describe the air
Deleteour books could be similar in the sense that the civilians have to deal with being gassed and well that makes the air quality bad
DeleteI agree it helps a lot to build the world around them and that helps in a book like the road.
Deletein my book the road they walk on a state road in a post apocalyptic world and the skys are grey and smokey and there is nothing around but woods and a couple buildings.
ReplyDeleteyeah the road is basically the setting of the story.
Deletein my book the longest war the author doesn't create a setting it is mare of a history book and in it it talks about how iraq and iran were always in some sort of conflict that either involved gassing or bombing. The fact is that the longest they were in peace with each other was for 40 years. the only way the plot grows is when the war goes on but the author doesn't do it because it is history book. if there was one scene that i really imagined was when 43,000 Kurds captured 120,000 Iraqis and nearly 1,400 Iraqis tanks.
ReplyDeleteI get what you're saying, the book doesn't necessarily take place in a place, but rather there's stories in the book that happen in a specific location.
DeleteMy book is similar because it only talks about what's happening and not the actual setting.
DeleteThe author of my book does a great job at describing setting in the story. she is always very detailing in what the story is talking about. a very vivid situation that i can remember is when she explains the front of the school on the first day. she explaines the setting by saying the quiet school yard full of children is very intimidating as Yuqui is not a fan of Piddy. A part that really stuck out to me was when Yaqui flat out told Piddy that she hates her for no reason at all and it makes me wonder what the real reason for them having beef is.
ReplyDeletemy book as well does a good job with explaining everything down to the last detail
Deletemy book does well at describing the book and what is going on
DeleteI think that the author of my book does a good job explaining where the characters are and what's going on around them. in my book the road they are moving a lot, and I think that even with all the moving around they do I still get a good understanding where they are and what it looks like.
ReplyDeletei agree that he did do a good job at explaining the surrounding and what it looks like
Deletehe does describe their surroundings well.
Deletemy book has god detail and also does a good job explaining the characters as well
DeleteThe author for that book does a great job in describing their location and what the characters look like too. Throughout the whole book you can easily picture the setting.
DeleteThey move around a lot in my book too and my authors also really good at describing each new setting
DeleteIn the book im reading, The Road, it is a post apocalyptic setting. The author does well describing the ashy roads and the snowy ash on the road they walk on, which is basically the setting of the story as they walk down the road and scavenge for food and supplies and a place to sleep for the night.
ReplyDeleteI agree he does a great job talking about the little things like what they are walking on, what they are looking at. I think that makes the book way better, because they are always moving and the things they are around are different.
DeleteI agree, I've rad the book before and the author does a great job describing everything, they make the whole setting clear to picture.
DeletePayson Hofstetter
DeleteI can relate my book to this because my author goes into detail when a very important part of the book comes up.
My book can relate about the dark and ashy part from all the bombings and air raids in Vietnam.
Deletei can relate my book to that because they are doing just fine but then have to take a horrible ride to the camps where they now have to adapt to getting beat and all the other horrible stuff
Deletemy book ballad of the whiskey robber does use setting to set a scene of which it describes very well how eache person behave or do when he robs a bank and how does the place looked like. my book is in 1990s i know it because it tell in almost every chapter of the book. a picture i remember he discribing was when he describe his girlfriend cheating on him.it is memorable because after that he started robbing more than he did.
ReplyDeleteMy author uses specific landmarks in the world to describe the location they are in. Like they may use a town or a certain dungeon to explain the location very well. For most of the book you can understand how the towns and dungeons are set up because some points in the book that is what the characters focus on which they explain in very vivid detail. I can very vividly remember and feel like I am in the ruins of the castle that was attacked by demons because of how well the author uses details and things.
ReplyDeleteIn the book American sniper I haven't figured out where he is stationed but it is some kind of desert that is very dry and he said the heat makes you feel lifeless from how the setting is i get the understanding that he might be Iraq.
ReplyDeleteOur books are somewhat similar because in my book they talk a lot about how hot and dry it is there and how wildfires are very easy to start
DeleteIn the book the cabin the author doesn't do a great job in describing the setting. Everything that the author describes is general just so you know where the character is. But I think they make up the lack of setting description in the character description. But so far the best setting i think was describing when they first got to the cabin and what it looked like, or when they found the dead bodies in the cabin.
ReplyDeleteFinding dead bodies!? That kind of reminds me of a book I read freshman year, Ten by Gretchen McNeil.
Deletein my book Kugane doesn't really paint images so much as he does the setting/ plot. but what really help to paint the images is the single picture before every chapter. which are all very well drawn. while there is an anime and manga of this book the way that he describes things is very different from how they seem in both.
ReplyDeleteMy book also has pictures and focuses more on the information portion.
Deletethe author of my book changes the setting constantly because the main family has been trapped underground for years. they are going from place to place trying to get back to a bit of a normal life. the author doesn't describe the settings to much because they are normally places that everyone has been so they don't feel the need to describe the place
ReplyDeletePayson Hofstetter
DeleteWouldn't that make the story confusing and you wouldn't know when or where things are happening?
Your book is similar to mine in that the main character wants to have a normal life, but has to train to defeat aliens. Jack Recker
DeleteI agree with Payson, that sounds like it would become confusing and maybe even a little frustrating
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ReplyDeleteMy author has done a great job of describing the setting in my book. The one setting that stands out the most was when Justyce was helping Melo. He goes into great detail on how the cop treated him very poorly and how he threw him around while putting handcuffs on him. Setting in this book takes a great deal in the plot because it shows how everyone is not as equal as everyone else. In that scene he creates an image of racist cop and it sticks through the book because Justyce is scared for his life because a black kid got killed by one. Lastly, the image is clear because its repeated throughout the book so far.
My book also have very good descriptions of the scenery because my book is based off of a wildfire so it needs to have a lot of detail to scenery
DeleteIn my book everyone isn’t treated equal either since the kind of setting they are in
DeleteMy book doesnt have a setting that much at the beginning but then it showed pictures of the battles in Vietnam which obviously does the explaining of the setting. The author doesnt explain the setting really because this is more of a historic and informational book.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a nice alternative to describing the setting but also seems lazy on the authors part.
DeleteIn Midnight Sun, the author is focusing more on interactions between the characters rather than settings. Based on what I do know, this book takes place in the 2010's, when the series was originally released. Again, other than the school, so far there hasn't been too much focus on the setting, so i don't believe it's being used to further the plot.The only memorable setting that i can visualize is the high school cafeteria.
ReplyDeletemy book can kind relate to the characters because the characters in my book try to make more friends but then sometimes they get mad at each other
DeleteMy Author hasn't described the setting very much, only the boat that the main character is on. The author talks more about what the character does while sailing the boat.
ReplyDeleteyeah, my book has little to no setting as well
DeleteMaveric Volkens- In the book I Survived the California wildfires the author is very good at describing things like when somebody is telling a story it makes it seem like you are there or when he is having a thought it makes it seem like its actually happening. The author really uses scenery to write the plot of the book because the whole book is based off of a wildfire so the scenery is a big part of the book.
ReplyDeleteMy author also uses a lot of detail to describe the setting.
DeleteMy author does a really good job at explaining things to thw town got leveled and every chapter he updates the reader on what is going on with it
Deletei think our book is so what the same because they are both try to survive in the book
DeleteMy book is told like yours with the author telling the story but you can visualize like it is real.
Deletei think that the auther creates the setting by the way he puts things into detail. When discribing a place in my book id have to say when they were on the train car because there so crowded that it kinda feels closterfobic and that it smells like a sewer. i think that the auther does use the setting to help further the book and makes it easier to understand.
ReplyDeleteMy author uses the experience his mother an grandmother went through to motivate his actions as well as move the book along, them surviving the alaskan wilderness influences him to become a pararescue jumper.
DeleteGary Paulsen dose a great job describing the setting in the book. the one setting that stood out to me was early on in the book when brain is in the plane the author describes all of the gages that Brian is looking at and the foot petals used to steer the plain. the setting is always changing in my book.
ReplyDeleteExpalining the gages to the author would be helpful becasuse 80 percent of people do not know what they mean .
DeleteThe setting change in your book is similar to mine. Always changing. Jack Recker
DeleteBy Books setting is in Medieval Times and he changes the setting throughout the book with the main characters traveling all over doing different things, but every time the setting changes the author go to great lengths to make the readers feel like they are right there with them.
ReplyDeletemy author also try's to make the readers feel as if they where right there with the charters.
Deletethe book that I'm reading is brains winter and the book do good at creating an image in you head of what is going on in the book. it takes place before winter and is try in enjoy the woods. the memorable part of the book is when the bear came to his camp and was takind all if the food the he has made.
ReplyDeletethis book seems pretty interesting to read cause bears are cool
Deletevery interesting, i dont know what i would do if a bear came to a camp that i was at.
DeleteHe creates images by telling me its a small town and I can relate to that because where I live and where western Dubuque is placed is a small town. The things the author says you can get a good idea of when the book or the story takes place. There's a couple scenes that any highschool athlete will love like a close football and scoring a late touchdown nobody will ever forget that.
ReplyDeletei could relate to this because mine reminds me of being in a small town also
DeleteIn Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur drew pictures for some of the poems so that helps with my image on those. These poems could take place at any time really, but I feel like it is more so current times. There is no set plot or setting for my book, but most of the poems are set in a bedroom.
ReplyDeleteim reading Chinese handcuffs and the author in my opinion does a good job of being descriptive about the setting, there's only been a couple of settings so far, the setting is pretty up to date it seems like it could happen now in todays date, and imagine that is vivid to me is when the brothers kill the neighbors cat, and I felt bad for the cat.
ReplyDeleteI am reading how to destroy America in three easy steps by Ben Shapiro. This book does not have a setting because its based on facts, American culture, misleading statistics, and political fraud. The only setting that is present in this book is the time frame in American history which Ben is talking about starting in 1776 rolling into our present day and how America came to be how it is today.
ReplyDeletemy book does a better job at explaining feelings and time then setting in my opinion. i do think because we have only seen two places the description of settings will get better. we have only seen two homes of the main characters
ReplyDeleteOne of my settings is kind of similar. My book as well explains more about feelings than it does setting wise.
DeleteI would say for my book there a few settings as of now. The ones i deeply visualize are where the main character calli who has TS( tourettes syndrome) pulls out her hair in the begining of the book because she gets frustrated with her tics. Another image setting that i have been able to visualize is how Calli and her friend Jin are explaining their thougts on one another. This is vivid to me because it talks about them liking each other the most throughout the book.
ReplyDeleteThe setting of my book is futuristic. The government takes kids into space to train them in hopes of defeating aliens. The author describes the battles as virtual training and very interesting. Jack Recker
ReplyDeleteIn my book the author, Stephen King, uses a lot of descriptive words to set the scene of a setting and he does an amazing job at it. One of the very first things that starts the story off is the murder and rape of a young boy where Stephen King goes into so much detail it actual made me sick to my stomach but you cant look away because his words are so captivating.
ReplyDeletesounds very scary yet interesting, i would read this book tho.
DeleteMy book Never Quit takes places in Alaska within recent years due to the author still being alive, the author uses imagery and a detailing vocabulary, one main seen in the book is very vivid and sets background for the rest of the book as well as the author, this scene was when the authors mother and grandmother and few others went on a fishing trip up the river that flows into the north end of the lake between a mixture of alaskan summer air and the cool valley air the lake sits in and brewed up a storm they call a williwaw, before the family knew it the waves were 6 feet tall and eventually the boat flipped and everyone was fighting to stay above water and only 3 out of the 10 people survived including his mom and grandmother.
ReplyDeleteThe author in my book does a pretty good job at this. He describes what’s happening in the background pretty well. The scene that I read so far that stuck out to me was “The silence in the village was too scary. I was scared when the wind blew, shaking the thatched roofs, and I felt as if I were out of my body wandering somewhere. There weren’t footprints of any kind.”
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ReplyDeleteMy author in my book does a great job at this. It describes topics in an amazing job like when they were in the high school she described what she sees around her, whats all werid around her that she sees, and what comes to mind when she sees them.
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