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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:
“The Scarlet Ibis” is set in the early fall in eastern North Carolina in the 1910s. The family at the center of the story lives in a rural community by the ocean and the two children—Brother and Doodle—spend a lot of time on the water and in nature. The opening lines of the story establish the rural location, as well as the way that Brother (the narrator) is attuned to the natural world around him:
It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The flower garden was stained with rotting brown magnolia petals, and ironweeds grew rank amid the purple phlox.
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