Introduction Pertemuan 8 Matakuliah: G0302/Introduction to Literature Tahun: 2007

Bina Nusantara By the setting of a story, we mean its time and place with its environment. The setting is important because it can make things happen It can prompt characters to act, bring them to realizations, or cause them to reveal their inmost natures. Setting 3

Bina Nusantara There are three kinds of setting: Setting of place Setting of time And social setting Setting 4

Bina Nusantara Setting of place Where the story takes place is called its locale such as a house, a street, a city, a landscape, a region This physical places are important to many writers

Bina Nusantara Setting of time Setting may involve the time of the story—hour, year, or century. The story may take place at dawn, or on the day of the first moon landing.

Bina Nusantara Physical place It is very important to a regional writer, who usually sets stories (or other work) in one geographic area. Such a writer, often a native of the place, tries to bring it alive to readers who live no matter where

Bina Nusantara Physical place Not that every writer of stories in which a place matters greatly will draw the characters as helpless puppets of their environment. Few writers do so, although that may be what you find in novels of naturalism—fiction of grim realism, in which the writer observes human characters like a scientist observing ants, seeing them as the products and victims of environment.

Bina Nusantara Social setting Society Social values Social norms Its people and tradition Customs Social system