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Exploring Context and Setting in Stories: Vital Components for Understanding

Discover how the context of a story, including historical events and the author's life experience, influences its themes. Explore the impact of setting on mood, atmosphere, and character development, and learn about symbolic meanings in different settings that shape the narrative.

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Exploring Context and Setting in Stories: Vital Components for Understanding

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  1. Good Morning, English 8B Happy New Year!

  2. Context and Setting The ‘when and where’ of stories

  3. Context • Context is when the story itself was written. • It is the social and political events that help shape the subject and themes of the story. • Historical context – including the author’s life experience – can help us understand what a story means.

  4. Setting • The SETTING of the story, is the PLACE and TIME that the story is set • Place can be a city, town, countryside or a house, or room • Time can be time of day, year, era in history. • BOTH place and time can change in the story. • BOTH place and time can influence the mood. • Setting can also include the atmostphere. • Setting can also help define a character. • Setting can have symbolic meaning:

  5. Symbols of time • Time of day or season • Morning/spring = new life, hope • Afternoon/summer = fullness of life, vibrancy • Evening/autumn = dying, retreating • Night/winter = ending, death

  6. Context of The Sniper

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