Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven: Setting 1 key example

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:

Station Eleven mostly takes place in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada both before and after the fictional Georgia Flu pandemic. Key locations in the novel's present include the fictional Severn City Airport (which becomes the home of the “Museum of Civilization”) and the various stops of the Traveling Symphony as they make their yearly circuit. Many of the scenes in the novel's flashbacks also take place in Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles, which are all destroyed by the pandemic. There are also frequent mentions of the fictional Delano Island, a remote community off the coast of British Columbia where the actor Arthur Leander grew up.