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Gopal Patel Maroo Analysis Group G In this essay, I will be explaining how the setting affects the characters in the book Maroo of the Winter Caves, written by Ann Turnbill. What happened in the book is Maroo and her family are going to the Winter Caves. On the way back, they get stuck in the blizzard so Maroo's grandmother, Old Mother, sends Maroo and her brother Otak and their dog Rivo to go to the Winter Caves to get help. This story takes place in the last Ice Age. The two settings that I will use in my explanation are winter and the Great Plain. One setting that affects Maroo and her family is autumn. Autumn affects Maroo because there is not much food. In the book, Old Mother took some meat and said “this is the last” (pg. 9). …show more content…

The Great Plain affects Maroo because it is big and they were trying to get to the Winter Caves fast. To Maroo’s family, the “Great Plain seemed endless” (pg. 71). Because the Great Plain was so big, it would take a long time to make it across. But also, it was getting colder, cold enough so that a blizzard could happen. Because it was taking so long to cross when they were still there. Another way that the Great Plain affects Maroo and her family is that it was in the path of the deer. When Maroo and her family were walking on the Great Plain, they felt “utterly alone, except for the deer” (Pg. 71). Because the Great Plain was in the path that the deer took when they migrated, there was a lot of deer on the Great Plain, so when the dogs made a kill off of the deer and Maroo and Otak stole it, they had some food. One last way that the Great Plain affected Maroo is that it provided shelter for Maroo’s family. This is important because when Maroo and her family were walking in the blizzard, they walked to the rock formation that provides shelter for them them during the night. The book describes that the rock shelter was “simply a pile of large boulders standing the height of two men” (pg. 76). If the rocks weren't there, they would have had to make a snow house earlier than they did in the

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