Setting : Creates mood and atmosphere Reflects and/or affects characters Contributes to theme

GEOGRAPHIC Location Landscape Scenery Position in the world, country, city… The seasons and weather

Cultural backdrop- Social and historical context- time period Working conditions Speech Behavior Clothing Gender roles Habits Laws Values and attitudes

Artificial(manmade) environments Rooms Buildings Cities and villages Futuristic settings…

Props Tools or implements, gadgets Clothing, costumes Stage design and placement of pieces Furniture

Examples of archetypal settings(patterns, symbolic, classic models) The river The garden The wasteland The maze The cave The tower or fortress The wilderness The threshold The forest The tomb The prison

Powell Pre- AP Summer Assignment- Human Geography Connections Consider Edward Relph’s essay, “A Pragmatic Sense of Place” which Mr. Ramsay has asked you to read over the summer for AP Human Geography, and answer the following questions in bulleted note form. Your notes should provide brief explanations upon which you may verbally elaborate.  Choose two of the settings in Anthem that may represent Relph’s theory on “Place” and “Placelessness”? Do you see any blurred lines or ambiguities?  How do totalitarian governments control what Relph describes as “sense of place”? Why is control of “place “ so important to these governments?  Apply Relph’s term “Exclusion” to Anthem.  Jane Jacobs’ is quoted in Relph’s essay as warning us that we are “rushing headlong into a dark age.” How is a “dark age” applicable to Anthem?  Relph suggests a “pragmatic sense of place” is necessary to deal with our postmodern era. If Prometheus and Gaea were to implement this solution in their new society, what would it look like?