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Definition of Setting
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Key Examples in Cry, the Beloved Country
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
Though set in 20th-century, pre-apartheid South Africa, Paton’s novel hardly stays put. Cry, the Beloved Country is a tale of movement: Stephen Kumalo sets foot into Johannesburg’s unfamiliar urban world, briefly visits a home for the blind at Ezenzeleni, and travels door-to-door in search of his son. Meanwhile, Black city residents walk to support the bus boycott, and Gertrude runs off to the convent. Paton’s work captures the flux of escape and migration.
