英语短篇小 说赏析Chapter IV Setting.ppt

Chapter IV Setting Questions for Thinking: Setting refers to the context in which the action of the story takes place. It includes the following elements: (1) the actual geographical location; (2) the occupations and daily manners of living of the characters; (3) the time or period in which the action takes place, such as epoch in history; (4) the general environment of the characters, for example, religious, mental, moral, social and emotional conditions through which the characters in the story move. Usually, setting does more than merely establishing the credibility or believability of the story. The author’s intention in creating an authentic and convincing setting is to clarify and reinforce the characters and actions in his her long lost twin sisters abandoned by her mother in the anti-Japanese war in Shanghai. The setting of Guangzhou and Shanghai helps readers follow step by step the changing of Jing-mei’s feeling about China and Chinese By creating dangerous settings that the young mother Rosa struggled for the important shawl used to cover her baby daughter Magda with another girl Stella, Ozick manages to evoke the horror of the Holocaust for the readers. The inhuman living conditions, the dying victims, and the misery of Magda and Rosa undoubtedly arouse  In 1993, Tan produced and coauthored the screenplay (script for a movie) for The Joy Luck Club which was made into a critically acclaimed film. Tan’s second novel, The Kitchen God’s Wife, was published in 1991 followed by the children’s books The Moon Lady (1992) and The Chinese Siamese Cat (1994). The year 2001 saw the release of yet another successful novel, The Bonesetters Daughter. place, heritage, and ethnic identity. At a young age, Jing-mei was in denial of her ethnic identity. At the age of 36, Jing-mei takes a journey to China to fulfill her mother’s wishes of finding her long abandoned twins. The setting of Guangzhou, China, helps Jing-mei realize the extreme