ELEMENTS OF THE SHORT STORY 3

Jessica Shelton

Cherokee Wagner

Denise Mendenhall

Diane Durham

WHAT IS A SETTING YOU ASK?

Setting is a tool used in stories to not only set the

mood for the piece, but also let the reader know

where the story is taking place. Instead of reading,

“There was a dog outside.”, setting helps to create

something more along the lines of, “The dog in the

pink tutu ran around the yard in the sun with what

seemed like happy abandon after she discovered she

wouldn’t be going to the vet afterall.”

THE VERY OLD MAN WITH THE ENORMOUS WINGS

(Google)

WHERE DID THE STORY TAKE PLACE?

This story took place, long, long ago by the old sandy sea shore.

Picture to yourself, it has rained and rained for days on end.

There’s crabs all over your yard EVEN in your house!!

But that’s not the end… The story really took place in Pelayo’s

courthouse.

But, that courthouse isn't in just an average town, We can

predict that it is in a Spanish speaking town, by the couples

names.

WHERE WAS THE OLD MAN?

Well, he was not in your average place for a man to

be.

First, he was in the couples yard

He then was sent on a raft for a few days

Then, the couple put him in their chicken coop,

where people threw items at him.

THE THING IN THE FOREST

First of all, the story takes place in Great Britain in

the 1940s.

Penny and Primrose are taken to a mansion on the

countryside with several other children. Near the

mansion is a forest.

The forest was very overgrown and eerie, but also

seemed very beautiful.

(Hall)

BUT WHAT CHANGED?

When the girls went back to the forest, there were

water droplets everywhere, from a recent rain, and

there were other things that the girls found familiar.

The story scene about going back to the forest

seems to want you to take careful notice of the

animals.

THE LADY WITH THE DOG

(Kim)

THE LADY WITH THE DOG

Yalta Moscow

Mark Twain said that “Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”This works in the literal sense and when it comes to the love affair between

Anna and Gurov.

(Wikipedia) (Smith)

WHAT’S UP WITH YALTA?

In the beginning of the story, Gurov is in Yalta and has already

begun to find it immensely boring. This tells me that it isn’t a very

interesting place, one you wouldn’t want to stay in very long.

Yalta is set up for the reader with sounds of crickets, smells of

the sea, and a beautiful scenery – all of these things make for a

very romantic night…too bad it seems Gurov planned it all and is

taking advantage of Anna. It might turn to love later, but at this

point, it is all about just what he can get from her…particularly

under her clothes.

The vacation setting

indicates that the

relationships formed

would be out of the

ordinary.

Rumored tales of

immorality may be true

YALTA: A TOURIST DESTINATION

Time seemed to stop!

The weather is sultry

and hot like the love

affair between Anna and

Gurov.

It represents the cold, loveless

marriages in which both Anna and

Gurov are involved.

It is routine and unexciting.

Represents everything that is wrong

in Gurov’s life.

MOSCOW IS COLD AND DREARY

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Realism Depicted in the Lady with the Dog. N.p., 27 Feb. 2013.

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Smith, Martin C. Moscow: My Kind of Town. Digital image. The Telegraph.

Telegraph Media Group, 01 Oct. 2007. Web. 16 Oct. 2013.

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