Blog Response #11
Each novel has a setting or multiple settings. How does your author create images of the setting? If you had to describe the time/place of when your novel takes place, how would you do this? Does the author use the setting to help develop the plot in your book? What particular images does the author create that are memorable? Is there a particular scene you can visualize, and why is this image so vivid?
**In response to the blogs, try to make connections with your novel's setting. How is your setting similar to that of other books?
**In response to the blogs, try to make connections with your novel's setting. How is your setting similar to that of other books?
the setting of my story "To All The Boys I've Loved Before." is in a typical small town, if i had to describe the time the story takes place i would have to say around the same time period as us because they have lot of similar style choices as now. there are a lot of scenes in this book that i can picture in my mind, i could picture living my life in the book and walking the halls with Lara Jean.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard of that book before but I do see some parallels to my novel. "Carrie" also takes place is a small town in the 1970's. It seems like the High School setting is relevant in both novels.
DeleteI have never read this book but it sounds very interesting. The author makes the book sound very interesting in the way he explains when it takes place and how.
DeleteThis sounds like a very good book. It would be easy to connect to the characters because we live in small towns too.
Deleteyour book sounds very interesting and it sounds easy to connect to the cahracters
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DeleteIt sounds like the author did a good job describing the setting and made it easy to connect to the characters.
DeleteMy book is also in a small town and is super similar to our life style here. I think the settings of our book are really similar and both have impacts on our stories.
DeleteIn the fault in our stars the setting doesn't really make a huge impact on the book but then again it does. The one place that makes a difference is the support groups. That is where everything started and what triggered Hazel to meet Augusts. The time that this story takes place in is like modern day, they travel to Amsterdam and they go along the canal and talk about what their lives would be like as time goes on. I can picture most of what the setting is like from watching the movie but also the way the author describes some things you could probably picture what the setting will look like.
ReplyDeleteI have seen the movie before and I loved it so I can imagine those places really good. I agree that the support group and Amsterdam are really important settings for the plot. I haven't read the book but I looks like John Green does a great job describing the setting.
DeleteI also have seen the movie and loved the way the author made the plot kind of around the setting by having Augusts and Hazel meet at a group meeting.
DeleteI saw the movie, but I have never read the book. I loved the movie and I would totally read the book someday!
Deletei loved that movie alot
Deletei have seen the movie but have never read the book. it sounds like a good book to read.
DeleteI am reading “Carrie” by Stephen King. This novel has multiple settings. The story is set in Chamberlain, Maine. The main settings are Carrie’s home and the High School. Carrie’s home is a very important part for the story. Carrie lives in a small house together with her mom Margaret. She has her own small room. Carrie spends a lot of time in the living room with her mom sewing new dresses and listening to religious music. The furniture is very simple because they don’t have the money to buy nice furniture. And Carrie’s mom is super religious so there is a huge Crucifix hanging in the living room. The setting at Carrie’s High School isn’t described that well. It’s more about the people in school than the surroundings. One place in school that has been described pretty detailed is the gym where the senior prom will take place. But I am not that far in the book so I guess I will find out later. The setting is very important for the plot, especially the gym at school, because that’s the place where the turning point of the book will take place. There is one particular scene I can visualize. It is the living room when Carrie and mom sew new dresses. One thing that stuck to my memory was the huge Crucifix. I thought that was very odd. I would say this story takes place in the 1970s.
ReplyDeleteI loved that book and the movie was steller as well, i remember that part as well.
Deleteyour book sounds really interesting, i have seen the movie and i loved it, now i just need to read the book.
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DeleteMy book focuses on the characters more than the surroundings also. It has multiple settings throughout the book
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ReplyDeleteI read Charlie St. Cloud and in my book the author does a really good job of describing the setting and the emotions of the main characters. The author creates images by explaining the colors, feelings, textures, and details that leave me with a detailed image of what is going on in the book. I would describe the cemetery where the main setting takes place as cold, dark, damp, and depressing. I would describe it as that because of the depressing mood that everyone that goes there is in and the spirits. Yes my author does use the plot to help develop the setting by explaining the way Charlie feels about everything. The author creates a beautiful image in my mind of the crystal clear blue oceans and the bright yellow suns. This image is so vivid because of the way it symbolized Sam comforting Charlie when he was alone and missing Sam.
I have never read your book, but it seems very colorful and detailed. Sounds like it would be a good book to read, with lots of drama and suspense.
DeleteI like reading books with lots of imagery because I like to visualize things. This sounds like a book I might like to read.
DeleteThe book describes the setting just how the movie looks. Very interesting movie!
Deletei have seen the movie multiple times but never read the book. might have to read the book now.
DeleteI haven't read your book from our group discussion our books are very similar and its very interesting.
DeleteWow your books setting is similar to mine. Mine takes place by an ocean too. The mood is depressing, calm, and quiet also.
DeleteMy book is about mysterious lights in a cemetery and they spend a lot of time there figuring out what is going on. Our books have similar settings in some parts, mine is not the main setting but it is a strong part of the book.
DeleteThe author has the setting out in the wild west in the time period of early 1900's. He first starts off that the main characters family gets killed and then he becomes a bounty hunter to find the guy that killed his family. then he meets up with a group of guys that will help him find this guy but they will have to face the native american. Then they end up getting in a big fight and the win the war and they are chasing the guy as of right now because hes was hiding with the natives.
ReplyDeleteThe family of my character gets killed in the beginning as well and she ends up surviving.
Deleteyour book sounds like mine all the friends go to war and one of them is killed
DeleteYour book sounds very interesting. Ill have to check it out sometime
DeleteMine setting is also set up in the west. Even though it's set in the year 1980, the setting is still very wild.
DeleteMY author created the setting by using words that describe a wasteland such as ruin, destroyed, and barren. The setting of my book is in post-apocalyptic new York. The land is flooded in the wet season and is desert like in the dry season there is no longer any winter. My author does use the story to develop the plot a little but not excessively. The image most memorable to me is the part were she sees the empire state building in a collapsed heap.
ReplyDeleteYou could say my book is almost like post-apocalyptic because lots of people are being killed and have very bad living conditions, keep up the reading
DeleteTim Green uses a lot of vivid imagery to describe the scenes in Deep Zone. Most of the book takes place in the 21st century in Florida. It is easy to imagine what is taking place because it sounds just like what present day Florida looks like. The setting doesn't really have much to do with the plot because they could play at any football stadium and still do all the same things.The only thing that might change are the scenes where they are sitting next to the pool talking. One of the most memorable scenes is Ty catching a game winning catch that was tipped in the air because it almost seemed unrealistic.
ReplyDeleteYour book sounds exiting and is really cool that the author uses imagery.
DeleteYour book sounds interesting! Maybe I will have to give a shot when I have some time!
Deletethe author of my book I Pledge Alligance uses graffic words and stuff to make an image he uses words like blood squirted out of his jugular so it makes it sound horrific. the setting of my book is Vietnam during the Vietnam war the jungle there fighting in is dense and he says it is very dark and little sunlight shines down. The image that i remember the most is when the planes flew overhead and sprayed napalm on the jungle and then the helicopter with the flamethrower lit up the napalm and the whole jungle just gets lit up and you could hear the screams of the Vc getting cooked.
ReplyDeletesounds like a very good book might have to read it sometime.
Deletemy book and your book have a lot in common besides my book takes place in Iraq sounds like a good book though
DeleteMy book also uses a lot of graphic imagery like yours, keep up the good work
DeleteYour book sounds interesting i should read it sometime.
DeleteMy book also shows a lot of images that leaves a true picture in your mind that makes you think what really has happened.
DeleteThe author of Percy Jackson and The Lightning thief has the setting take place in several places, all around the time period of the 2000's. In my book they travel around the USA trying to find who stole Zeus's lightning bolt, and then return it. They start off in New York, and then head west to Las Vegas, and then to the Underworld. The setting helps develop the plot because places like the underworld have a lot monsters, and the different towns they go to help lead to them solving the mystery of who has the lighting bolt.
ReplyDeletethat is really different and interesting.
DeleteYour book sounds interesting with the underworld involved. Ill have to read it sometime
DeleteThat sounds pretty interesting. My novel also takes place around the 2000's.
DeleteMy book's setting is kind of like yours, location-wise. My main characters are always traveling from one place to another in Texas.
DeleteSounds like a interesting novel, hope you enjoy your book
DeleteThe setting of my book takes place in multiple areas. one of the settings takes place in the actual high school where kiara and Carlos first meet they met in the guidance office when Carlos first started to attend high school.
ReplyDeleteIn my book Max, the author describes Justin in the woods in great detail. As Justin was riding his bike in the woods, it was saying how he had to weave around bushes and trees while having to pick up his front tire to go over roots so he does not fly over his handlebars. Also describing the paths he was taking to get to the skate park in the middle of the woods, that is the big hangout for kids his age. The best part so far was when Max and Justin followed Emilio into the woods where his brother's best friend Tyler was illegally selling military rifles that could take down choppers and huge rocket launchers. Max was trained to detect those kinds of things. I also liked how the author described Chuy's house when Justin and Max were there. There were like 100 chihuahua's all over max and he did not even move. My least favorite part about my book was when, Justin's dad was going to shoot Max because Tyler said that Kyle died because Max turned on him, but that's not true at all. Justin knows that Tyler is lying because Max would have turned on him by now it that was the case. I can visualize the part where Max smells the money Chuy's cousin Emilio gave Justin for a CD. When Justin tells max to, "Go Search." Then Max takes off like a bullet in the direction Emilio drove off and Justin is on his bike trying his best to keep up with Max. This all takes place in Texas, but at the time Justin's older brother Kyle was at war in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteI also have woods in my book but the woods in my book are very scary because there are lots of scary monsters in the woods.
DeleteHarris and me takes place in the late 1930's on a farm. the auther uses imagery when explaining the yard of the farm and how its set up. the author uses the setting for the plot because everything is related to farming.
ReplyDeleteMy story also takes place in the same time period but instead of a farm it is a little village.
DeleteSounds like your book has a big difference between my book and your book. Your book sounds like an interesting book keep up the reading.
DeleteReal interesting novel, hope you enjoy it
DeleteIn the book 'The Kite Runner' the author does a good job creating the setting. The novel takes place in the 1900's in a village. Baba is a billionaire that has a big estate full of a bunch of little mud houses but he lives in a giant house with his boy. I can imagine the village and town the best out of the whole book i picture a little mud whole town with a big house in the middle.
ReplyDeleteMy book has multiple settings, from being in the US to going overseas for missions. Chris creates the images by describing each plot he is in with great detail, which makes you able to envision it without even seeing it
ReplyDeleteMy book also has multiple settings as they travel, and has many details so you can envision it.
DeleteIn No Country For Old Men, the setting is West Texas in the year 1980. The author, Cormac McCarthy, describes the setting by stating the towns in which the characters come across of. Another way McCarthy describes the setting is the how he describes the landscape. For example, when Moss was hunting antelope and when he discovered the drug deal site, in the beginning of the book, McCarthy, vividly, describes the backcountry in which Moss was in. If I were to describe the setting, I would, somewhat plainly, describe it in the first or second chapter of the book. I'd say the author uses the setting to develop the story because without it, it would make the book even harder than it needs to be with understanding this book. McCarthy is very detailed when describing moments of people getting killed. The scene I can, so far, most visualize is when Chigurh kills the deputy by strangling him with the chain of his handcuffs at the beginning of the book. The way it was told was so graphic, I don't even want to explain.
ReplyDeleteMy novel "Nights In Rodanthe" takes place mainly at an Inn right next to the ocean in North Carolina. This novel takes place in the 2000's. I think the setting goes super well with the mood of the story. The ocean is the place where Paul and Adrienne go to rethink life. The ocean is calm and a quiet place. I can really visualize the setting throughout this novel.
ReplyDeleteYou story seems very intriguing and it kind of makes me want to read it.
DeleteI feel like it would be really easy to picture somebody going to the ocean to think about life because you see that happening a lot in many different movies.
DeleteAmerican Sniper takes place in Iraq and he describes the weather and condition of the houses and how they live. my book takes place from 2001-2006 when he was active in military. yes because some places you know stuff is gonna happen. yes he also put pictures in that were memorable i like all of the scenes when he talks about fighting.
ReplyDeleteMy book also takes place sometime in the 2000's
DeleteHe does make the book very memorable and a very good read.
DeleteIn the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel the main setting was in a concentration camp in germany during World War 2. This setting showed a lot of imagery by showing like burning bodies, and explaining the train ride, like when the were so crammed into the train cars that they couldn't even sit down but when they wanted to sit down they had to take turns. One image that really stands out in the book is when they said there was a dump truck unloading baby's and older women into a ditch to be buried. and if you think about it them kids and older women could've been alive still
ReplyDeletesounds like a good book hope your enjoying reading it
DeleteI am reading "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman. The setting takes place in a hospital room and its very interesting because Mia is on the urge of passing away after the horrible accident. If I was Mia I would pass away because she has the choice to stay or go. Everyone else in Mia's family has passed and I feel like if she decides to stay she will regret it. I think this because everyone else in her family passed away so she will totally regret it. I really enjoy how they have this novel take place in the hospital.
ReplyDeleteThere are many different settings throughout my book Night. The author shows all the different settings by using harsh words to describe the setting and what the people are going through. If i had to describe the time and place the same way the author does throughout the book. The special pictures that i see when I'm reading are like when he explains the camps and all the people getting trapped.
ReplyDeleteI read this book last time i thought the something.
DeleteIn my book Air Raid-Pearl Harbor the story takes place in different countries. The author describes what is happening at the time to let you picture what the setting looks like. The author uses the settling to further the plot. He describe what pearl harbor looked like and why it was so easy for the Japanese to attack. the one thing that will stay in my mind from the setting when the author describe what pearl harbor looked like when the attack happen. it was really troubling to think what happen that day.
ReplyDeleteMy book first starts out in the big city of New York and talks about the life there. Jeremy the main character is from there and they talk about his big fancy life in the city. He then travels to a really small town in South Carolina called Boone Creek. Jeremy is a journalist and he is there for about a week to write an article on strange lights in the town cemetery. The rest of the story takes place there and talks about how out of place Jeremy is being in such a small town and how the life is so different from his up north. It is just your normal small town where everyone knows everyone and knows everything that goes on. Life is just super simple and calm down there and not much happens in the small town. I can really picture the setting of this book because it sounds just like our small towns here.
ReplyDeleteThe sounds really similar and relatable to the small town that we live in.
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ReplyDeleteThe setting in my book focuses more on the characters more than the setting and their everyday life. There are multiple settings in my book and the one that the author focuses most on is the houses where everyone has their parties. The most memorable scene for me is when Charlie kissed Sam instead of his girlfriend Mary Elizabeth because it shows how he really feels about his best friend Sam.
ReplyDeleteMy book takes place in a very small town along a river. Travis is the main character in my book and he is a vet. The author always mentions how everyone knows one another because of how small the town is. He always talks about how they sit on their porches at night while the sun is setting and watch the water because it is so pretty. All of his wording paints a very good and pretty picture in my head of a very pretty small town bordered by water. I think the timing in my book is very modern, but it does not really play a big role in the story.
ReplyDeleteMy book also took place in a small town where everybody knows each other and it reminds me of Epoworth and Farley.
DeleteThe setting throughout my book takes place mostly on a ship titled the Chaf Envoy. Luke Skywalker and his wife Mara Jade Skywalker and several others are on their way to see a historical ship, Outbound Flight, from the clone wars. The Chaf Envoy almost seem endless the way the author describes it, he goes into great detail with each scene.
ReplyDeleteIn my book the author does a good job of describing the setting of the ski lodge that is on top of a mountain. The author uses simple but flowing words to talk about all the snow, the movie motor homes and the lodge itself. I would probable describe the setting a bit like the author. The author does due to the fact that an avalanche hits the lodge and traps a couple people form leaving it. The author leaves a good image of the blizzard.
ReplyDeleteMy author also does a great job at describing the castle (Hogwarts) on top of a mountain. I like how my author doesn't ever have long paragraphs of detail it is usually short simple words but they really paint a picture in your mind.
DeleteThis seems like a book i might read. It doesn't seem to hard to read and sounds like it has a really good plot.
DeleteMy book takes place in an extremely small town where everybody knows everybody. The imagery of the setting is very vivid at times. For example he uses specific detail when they are at the little coffee shop and explains the amount of people and the decorations all around. If I had to describe a time and place I would compare it to small town Epowrth as we live right now. Everything in this book that happens is something that could easily happen to anybody today. How they describe the town and how everybody knows everybody reminds me of the town I've lived in my entire life. There are many times in this book where I could picture everything perfectly. For example when Taylor described how his dad dies in a fire I could picture every little bit of it because it was very detailed.
ReplyDeleteThe book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone takes place at Hogwarts a school for witches and wizards. Here is an example of what my author says to create hogwarts in the reader's mind “The narrow path had opened suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.” I think my book takes place before cell phones just because I think that using owls to send letters is kind of an older way of doing things. I think the most memorable part of the book was when harry first saw hogwarts because the words like vast and sparkling really helped create an image in my mind.
ReplyDeletein my story the setting is set in a small town where everyone knows everyone so kind of like around here. The story mostly takes place in the high school or at a soccer game. the author doesn't really give to much detail to the settings but most of the time you know or can get an idea of the setting and what it would be like.
ReplyDeleteThe setting of your book is just like the small towns of Iowa. Everyone knows everyone.
DeleteIn my book American Sniper, Chris uses the setting to make the story seem more intense. Since this was written as an autobiography he puts a lot of detail into what is going on. He tells what he hears and describes what everything looks like. He makes it feel as if you were right next to him. He tells how he can hear the air strikes and feel the ground and the buildings shake when they hit. I can visualize the seen when he is helping the marines clear rooms and houses. He explains what he sees and what he is doing and how he is moving around. He makes the whole book seem more real.
ReplyDeleteI can see an author who writes about war use a lot of detail. Your book sounds really interesting to what you've explained in this blog.
DeleteIn my book Boot Camp, the setting takes place at a camp for teens who have gotten themselves in major trouble. The camp is known as Lake Harmony located in the middle no where down a dirt road. The Author of my book Todd Strasser uses the setting of the book to develop the plot. the author does a great job for readers to visualize the story.
ReplyDeleteIn my book, The Color Purple, Alice Walker uses many locations such as Africa, the South, Memphis, and even Panama. But the majority of the book focuses on one location in the South, that is where Mr.___ and Celie live. The author uses these locations to make the story realistic and to make the reader acknowledge how these places have changed. In the South they use wagons to travel around places. In one part of the story when Nettie is traveling to New York and telling Celie about it she explains how colored and white people have different bathrooms.
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