The setting is the environment in which a story or event takes place. The setting in a story, can include a specific time and date. Setting in a novel can hook the reader and cause the reader more interested in the portion of the scene. In Unwind by Neal Shusterman, he helps the reader envision the world that the three runaway unwinds experience. By using many different techniques that provide the reader with images in their mind of the world. Neal Shusterman used comparisons, imagery, and point of view to establish a setting. Neal Shusterman helps the reader establish the problem by using imagery throughout the story. For example the author writes “ The blazing sun bakes the Arizona hardpan by day, and the temperature plunges at night. More …show more content…
This is especially true when he describes the adults sitting in the headmaster's office. For Example, “ Three adults sitting in judgement, like the three monkeys: hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil”(Shusterman 21). Shusterman used simile he describe the scared expressions on their faces. He used the simile to compare a human to the faces of a monkey. Afterward Connor, Risa, and Lev run to a school to hide from juvey cops, and they describe the bathroom door as, “The bathroom door squeals like a pig(Shusterman 71). The simile is informing the reader of the obnoxious noise of the bathroom door. The simile is important to Connor, Risa, and Lev because it warns them about people entering the bathroom. Later on the three of them go to the graveyard which is a safe place for runaway unwinds. Its a junkyard for planes and every once and a while a buyer comes in so the unwinds hide, he describes the alerting system like this, “ It gives the kids more than enough time to hide like gremlins into the machinery”(Shusterman 128). The simile describes the graveyard when a buyer comes to look at a plane. Shusterman compares the kids to gremlins when they are