Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Effects of Setting



Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.


Chunk #1: 
The settings in the book has a very good impact. The Characters are having trouble cause the weather they have is very cold. The winter is very hard for them cause now they have to manage there food and supplies right. In the winter its hard to grow crops or anything causes of the cold weather.

Chunk #2:
Something that would effect me is like when it rain in a football game its hard to play on cause of the turf is so slippery . Somethime its easy to lose the football.

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