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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 Jasper Jones
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
The main action of the novel is set during the late 1960s in Corrigan, a fictional small town in Australia. Growing up in Corrigan, Charlie Bucktin has always felt very sheltered. His father gives him books to read so that he can learn about the wider world. He and his friend Jeffrey Lu listen to sports on the radio and wonder if the impending moon landing will take place. Everything they are interested in seems to be happening far away from them. Danger lies far away, too. For example, Charlie occasionally refers to the Vietnam War. Charlie isn't sure what to make of the war, but he seems to have the sense that it is not really his problem. At the end of the day, Charlie has always felt safe and a little bored in his own isolated bed. He hopes that one day he will live a bit more glamorously as a writer in New York.
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