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Q1: where and when does the story take place ? It took place in a white-dominated town called Manawaka,mid-west in Canada,in the middle of 1900s. Q2:How does the author go about establishingsetting? Does the author want the reader tosee or feel the setting ; or does the authorwant the reader to both see and feel it ? Whatdetails of setting does the author describe ? The author established the setting according to the chronological order and the changes of place. The setting changed with the development of plot. The author really wants readers both see and feel it. The author gives us a lot of details about Piquette Tonnerres living environment which includes both social environment and physical environment. Examples: A. Just?below?Manawaka?,?where?the?Wachakwa?River?ran?brown?and?noisy?over?the?pebbles,the? scrub?oak?and?grey-green?willow?and?chokecherry?bushes?grew?in?a?dense?thicket?.?.......... tangled?strands?of?barbed?wire?and?rusty?tin?cans according to the description, we can see that she was in a shabby living condition and their geographical position is far away from the modern society of the white and they can’t contact with the American lifestyle and mainstream culture. Everything displaced in chaos in a small square cabin. B .their English was broken and full of scanties ( language ) C .their men were not working at odds or as section hands on the C . P . R ( Canadian Pacific Railways) (Job ) D......get mixed up in a Saturday-night braw and would hit out at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly ( Behaviors ) The social setting reveals that she was in a lower class family environment and indicates the tragic fate of Piquette.She almost had no chance to be involved in a white-dominated society. E.“It was not a large cottage, but it was on the lakefront. You could look out the windows and see, through the filigree of the spruce trees...... and by the end of the summer they would again be tame enough to take pieces of crust from my hands.” th