How Does Geography Affect Characters

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Chapter 19: As found in an earlier chapter, setting or geography, much like weather, can set the mood or tone of a story, as well as do much more. Geography can set a wide variety of tones as beaches seem to serve as positive scenes and mountains and darkness can prove to be rather mysterious. In addition, the environment surrounding the characters can serve to foreshadow events. For example, if the setting of a story i located near an actively flooding river, then one can presume that a flood will occur in the near future. Lastly, geography can directly affect characters. This occurs as author tend to send characters south in order for them to run amok, or leave society and lose control to find their inner soul, which tends to create a large