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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
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
Indian Horse is set in mid-1900s Canada, and it accordingly surveys a nation that can be hauntingly beautiful but also horrific due to how Indigenous people are treated. Saul’s stay at God’s lake and hours-long drives across the country are storehouses of imagery. “The stars pinwheeled above us,” Saul recalls while thinking back to the nights with his grandmother. “Lakes were shining phosphorescent platters,” he describes during the trips to cross-country hockey games. The novel celebrates the natural world through its attentiveness to the Canadian landscape.
