The Importance of Setting in a story

1. Where has each of the stories been set?

The Real Durwan by Jhumpa Lahiri: Stairwell

The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Watson's house

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Neighbourhood of a town

2. What time period has each of the above stories been set?

The Real Durwan by Jhumpa Lahiri: Modern day

The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 1883, early April in the morning

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Early 19th century England

3. What clues do you get from the setting about the kind of story it is going to turn out to be?

The Real Durwan by Jhumpa Lahiri: Moody and sad

The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Suspicious and mysterious

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Gives us a very amiable feeling and and gives us warm and loving effect

4.Do you get clues about the story that follows from the setting? 

To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama, a town so small and insular that, according to Scout, her father is "related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town." 

The story states that Mr. Finch works in the area. Maycomb is repeated many times in the story and there is a vivid description of it “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day”. Maycomb is also a white town as there are description of the Finch’s neighbours. “It was customary for every circle hostess to invite her neighbors in for refreshments, be they Baptists or Presbyterians, which accounted for the presence of Miss Rachel (sober as a judge), Miss Maudie and Miss Stephanie Crawford.” It describes the fine ladies in town and how they live their lives in Maycomb County.