The Influence of Setting

The setting of a story can affect on several different things. For example, if a story's setting is in outer space, you can roughly guess on what this story is about. It would probably be something about the future when people are living in space or maybe it might be talking about when humans first went up to space. Settings in a story can tell where and when the story takes place. Another thing is that, the setting and the plot should be matched. For example, you can't have a monkey under an ocean. It doesn't make sense at all. All the parts in a story fits with each other, everything have to make sense when it's put together. There are some writers that match plots with unmatched settings on purposely, they do this to make the story more unique, special, and easier to grab the reader's attention. Writers use different descriptive words to paint a picture with words, this means that you can clearly have what the setting looks like in your mind when you read that story. The setting of a story is one of the most important part in a story. Without a setting, the story will only be characters doing actions. There will be no places for them to do the actions, obviously this will make the story really boring.