On land, on sea, on a mountain, or on a farm the setting of a book is everything it determines the problems characters face it can add description to the character's life. The setting of Salem Massachusetts is important in developing how the townspeople act to the witch trials they have. The setting in my life has helped me in many ways such as becoming smarter and being a good person.
First of all, “geography matters” talks about how the setting is the most important part of a story because when you are asked to go on a vacation the first question you ask is... Where is it? “ The place brings with it history, interaction between American and cuban culture, corruption, poverty, fishing, and of course baseball” (Foster 172). This quote shows that based on where the story takes place it can change the conflicts that the character's face, and it can change how they live their day to day lives. Setting also was used in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by being on that particular river, the Mississippi, traveling through the particular landscape and those particular communities, at a given moment in history. It matters when they reach Cairo
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The setting in the crucible is important because they still have slaves. This is important because Tituba was an easy target to blame because nobody respected her. When she was blamed for being a witch and denied it which got the ball rolling for the rest of the town people to blame one another. The setting in the crucible only created problems for all of the characters because it was a bad time in Salem