Setting+Concepts

Time, place, and environment.
 * Setting:

Time: clock time, time period, time of the day, day of the week, month, year, season, etc.

Place: geographic landmarks, city, country, universe, etc.

Environment: The outside factors impacting a character's development or choices.

Questions to ask regarding environment:

• Are there any physical factors such as color of skin or other special traits that affect the main characters?

• Does the locality/ location of the characters affect their choices?

• Does money (the desire for it, the lack of it) affect the character?

• Are there any political structures (elections, government agencies, people in power) that affect the character?

• Are there any cultural factors such as ethnicity that affect the character?

• Does the character’s religious beliefs or the religious beliefs of those around him/her affect the character?

• Does the character’s education or lack of education affect the character?

• Does the character’s family structure affect the life of the character?

1 . Read the first pages of your novel and answer the questions found in the following link for setting: **

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Second Chance Learning: Bridge to Terabithia

[|Setting: Time/Place/ Environment from Bridge to Terabithia]**