1. Unit #1: English 10
Plot and Setting

2. Setting Setting: indication of place, time and social context
Setting helps put the reader in the shoes of the character
Gives feeling of being in the situation with the characters
Includes: customs, how they live, dress, eat, behave etc.
Setting can be symbolic
Setting can have a direct emotional effect on a story’s atmosphere or mood
The emotions attached to a text
Setting can also help express tone.
A writer’s attitude toward a subject or character.

3. Setting: Graphic Organizer
There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden- shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. — The Great Gatsby

4. Plot Plot : the sequence of events that make up a story
Basic Situation (exposition): The basic situation presents a main character who usually desires something
Complications (conflict): The first conflict arises and
begins the rising action. Opposes desire of Protag.
External: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature
Internal: Man vs. Self
Climax: The stories most exciting or suspenseful
moment, when something happens that decides
the outcome of the conflict.
Resolution (denouement): The problems are resolved and the story ends.
Last piece of new information revealed which usually coincides with the theme.
Plot map the following Pixar Short