Setting
The setting of a story includes the time and place in which the story takes place. Some stories may have more than one setting.
Practice
Matching
| 1. _________________ Where the Red Fern Grows | a. Ohio in 1839 |
| 2. _________________ The City of Ember | b. an underground city in the future |
| 3. _________________ Weasel | c. the Ozark Mountains on Cherokee land in northeastern Oklahoma during the Great Depression |
| 4. THE LION AND THE
MOUSE by Aesop A lion asleep in his den was wakened by a mouse running over his face. Losing his temper, he seized it with his paw and was about to kill it. The mouse, terrified, pleaded to the lion to spare its life. "Please let me go," it cried, "and one day I will repay you for your kindness." The idea of so small a creature ever being able to do anything for him amused the lion so much that he laughed aloud and let it go. But the mouse's chance came after all. One day the lion got tangled in a net. The mouse heard the lion’s roars of distress and ran to help. Without hesitation it set to work to gnaw the ropes with its teeth and succeeded before long in setting the lion free. "There!" said the mouse, "you laughed at me when I promised I would repay you; but now you see that even a mouse can help a lion." What is the most likely setting for this fable? |
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5. On your story map fill in the setting box for The Cay. (Note: List 2 locations.)
Answer Key
1. c
2. b
3. a
4. B
5. February 1942 on the island of Curacao, then part of the Dutch West Indies.
When Phillip is ship-wrecked, the setting shifts to an unnamed cay deep in the Devil's Mouth, the long U-shaped coral banks in the Caribbean. Most of the action takes place between April and August of 1942, although the narrative actually concludes in April of 1943