Blog Response #10
Each novel has a setting or multiple settings. How does your author create images of the setting? If you had to describe the time/place of when your novel takes place, how would you do this? Does the author use the setting to help develop the plot in your book? What particular images does the author create that are memorable? Is there a particular scene you can visualize, and why is this image so vivid? **In response to the blogs, try to make connections with your novel's setting. How is your setting similar to that of other books?
The author of Dragonwatch is Brandon Mull, and I really like how he sets up his scenery. When he goes to describe a new scene, not only does he draw your attention to the environment, but he also describes the people in the surroundings. This helps to set the vibe of the location, so we can predict how some of the characters will react. Occasionally he'll also sneak Seth or Kenda's, the main characters, thoughts into the descriptions, and I like when he does that because it makes it easier to see how they're viewing the area. I think the scene I enjoyed reading about the most so far was when Mull described the dragon's castle from Seth's perspective, because he made it all seem extremely intriguing, mysterious, and enormous.
ReplyDeletecant really relate to your book but sounds like its kinda wild and living on the edge type beat
DeleteI cant relate either but it does sound interesting in two different main characters point of view
DeleteI can not relate to your book as much because with the book i am reading there isnt many places where walter or any of brians clients can go other than the fact of the prison and the court
Deletei cant relate becasue im not really into dragon books
DeleteI can sort of relate to your book because my book is also very mysterious and i feel like i would find your book good to read because although i don't like dragons, i love a good mystery
DeleteMy book is kind of like yours with describing the setting. My author will describe the places and type of people that are at the events and parties that my characters attend, which also tells me how that scene could play out.
Deletei can relate to this my author uses surroundings to bring the reader into the scene to try and get them to visualize it.
DeleteI am reading "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey. It's an autobiography about his recovery from drug addictions. Frey uses a unique format to make the book feel real and his brutally honest descriptions make the book painfully real. His loneliness in rehab is portrayed through his inner conflict as he fights through the urge to relapse. The author best describes the gory scenes, his pain is almost felt by the audience. In one scene, he has to get a major surgery done to replace and fix some of his teeth. Since he is a recovering addict, he can't be given any pain medications or sedatives. It's a gruesome scene that made me cringe as I read it, he stayed awake through the whole thing and it's almost hard to believe that an actual person went through that. Unlike any book I have ever read, Frey does an immaculate job of making the reader feel like they're in his place.
ReplyDeleteMy book, Dragonwatch by Brandon Mull, doesn't have too many gory scenes, but what the author does do is describe every scene very well. Similar to your book, Mull also does an amazing job at making the reader feel like they're there.
Deletegory scenes that are painted out vividly may be disturbing sometimes but they tend to be the part that really makes you understand a book.
DeleteI book like this when the gory scences are vivid to bring the attention to the reader and make the reader hooked
Deletein my book many of the people in the towns are drunk people so my book can relate
DeleteMy book also has very brutal descriptions about suicide and death, it is a really good book but it takes very dark turns sometimes.
Deletemy book reminders of him talks more about emotion, its not so much about the location its more about how they are feeling then when they are.
DeleteMy book also goes through the inner conflicts of the main character Benson when he figures out all his friends could be androids so he debaits who he can and cannot trust them anymore
DeleteMy book, "We Are Lost and Found," also conveys pain and fear as it was based around a time of (you guessed it) pain and fear. I find it interesting that your book is less into the party scene, yet much more into the substance abuse 'scene.' I also agree with Jaysen that my book features alcohol quite a bit. From the first few pages, it is an important part of the story and helps to slot the story into the setting of NYC in the '80s.
DeleteIn my book ugly love the author explains the book with emotion and scenery, not necessarily on brutality because my book is romance.
Deletein my book great American hunting stories the book is very descriptive of the nature around the hunter and he was stalking his game and how he was being quiet then once he shot the animal how he cleaned it and took it out of the woods. I would not change the layout of the book because I like the description and how the stories are told by different hunters. I can really visualize teddy Roosevelt hunting a bear and tracking it down the way it was described. the way this book goes is way different than any book I've ever read before.
ReplyDeleteIn my book, Dragonwatch by Brandon Mull, there are a lot of scenes that are in nature, and Mull is very good at descripting the character's surroundings. Similar to your book, he is
Deletealso very good at making the story and surroundings easily visualized with the descriptions.
My setting can relate to yours, both of ours are out in the wilderness and by themselves. Although my books is Night and has concentration camps it is by itself in an area outside of a town.
DeleteMy setting is the same since the survivors in my book are camped out in the forest.
DeleteI can relate because my characters are also in a forest but for different reasons
DeleteMy setting is related to your about hunting and wilderness around you.
DeleteSeems like a cool book if he is describing what it is like to hunt. I think its cool that they described the hunting and cleaning of the animal.
Deletemy book is sort of like a survival book, just not in the scenes that they're in the woods surviving but in the real world trying to survive. they also had aa scene where biddy my main character was traveling throughout the woods, our books just had very few details that are similar.
DeleteMy book also describes nature well because my character also has to be quiet and hide in the woods so she won't be seen or heard. But she's more of the prey in this situation whereas your character is the predator.
Deletemy book is the complete opposite instead of being in the wild he is in a gym shooting basketballs.
Deleteseems like a good book, opposite of mine as mine focuses on the World War
DeleteIn my book Facing The Giants, the setting takes place in a small town. The head coach of the local high school football team takes walks in the woods to clear his mind often.
DeleteThe author in Night creates images of how his experience was in the concentration camps and how he survived. The experience that Elie took place in was from 1941 to 1945 where many Jews were held under there will to be put to work for labor and many were cremated because of their ethnicity. The setting makes the book what it is the story was someone's point of view in most likely the darkest time of his life. The scene when they were on the train and it made a stop to drop off dead bodies but SS officers threw bread and the one fathers son was beating his father for bread his father was yelling at his son to stop but he ended up killing him. This was so vivid because the father was yelling at him to stop but he didn't because he wanted the bread. Its hard to make a connection to Night due to its setting and how it was explained. Hard to relate to other books because i havent read many like this.
ReplyDeleteI cannot relate to your book for the location wise but i can relate over the experience of hurt from the concentration camps and the difference of the jail cells and the wrongly accused convictions and accusations
Deleteour books are similar just because they both are bringing awareness to how things went down back in the day. both showcasing discrimination towards a specific group. your book is a little bit more gruesome but they still deal with a group trying to overcome discrimination.
DeleteMy book can slightly relate to yours because the characters in it are trapped in their school and if they try to leave or do anything "wrong" they get punished by either getting killed or brutally beat up
DeleteI am reading Just Mercy and the picture that the author makes is a gross dirty cell with people who lay around in there little cot and the imagination of the white tank top and there orange pants and the orange tops. The time and place where it would take off would be in the afternoons where the sun is shining in and the place would be in a big white brick building with bars on the windows and the doors are bars. The images that are memborable is the fact of where the lawyer and walter meet up in a big room filled with metal tables and handcuffs around walters hands with a police officer around the corner.
ReplyDeletei can relate because my author desprices his life in pirson
DeleteMy book can relate because there are concentration camps and the people are treated unfair.
DeleteThe book I choose has a part like that but it was more of a torcher room then any.
Deletei enjoyed that book and loved how the author followed walter and i could easily put pictures of everything that happened in my mind throughout it.
DeleteMy book is sort of like yours just the opposite view point because it is based on the guards point of view instead of the prisoners.
DeleteI am reading Text for You by Sofie Cramer. I feel as though my author does not really describe the scenes in her book, she kind of leaves the reader to assume where people are. While starting to read this book, I did not know for sure that the plot line was set in Germany until the characters telling the story from a third point of view stated "Germany." I did read words of the cities that were foregin to me, but I assumes they were in a different country, other than Germany. One specific scene I am actually able to imagine is when Clara folds Ben's letter into a paper boat and places her engagement ring on top. She then places the paper boat into the river and watches it float down stream in the river. Clara is doing this because she can not hold on to the pain of her deceased fiance's death and keeping his letter to her because it will only bring her down. I feel as though Sofie Cramer does not use the setting to build the plot line. Another scene that stands out to me is when Sven and Hilke were calling Clara as telemarketers for the lottery. This stood out to me because Sven and Hilke do not know who Clara is and Clara does not know them; along with the fact that I could imagine Sven and Hilke standing over a cell phone talking to Clara as she is going very upset.
ReplyDeletemy author does the same , kinda leaves it to the reader.the author does go into more detail but not to specific
DeleteThe author for my book Happy Hour, kind of does the same thing because she does describe the places that Isa and Gala go to but when she starts a new chapter, she starts it when Isa is in the middle of something and your kind of clueless until Isa describes what she is doing and what happened since she left off of the last time.
DeleteI could agree with the book I am reading. The author doesn't specifically say that John is in Germany for the Army. I kind of had to wait awhile to figure out where he was stationed at.
Deleteim reading Night by Elie Wiesel i feel trebile for my author what he despises in this story is very shocking and sad the story he explains is what he goes through in a germen prison with his family fisrt they were taken in a big truck then beaten with whips and sticks its brutle
ReplyDeleteMy book wasn't sad, but it was shocking of what my character "Erik" shocked me that he left just to not lose his dog.
DeleteNight has a lot of detail to the point it got me to chose another World War II book because of that reason.
Deletemy story is also sad and has alot of betrayal. also alot of death.
Deletemy story has lots of downs and up feeling bad for the characters of my book muvh like those of night
DeleteThe author in Night creates images by describing his time in the concentration camp around 1945. Jews were held captive in concentration camp and forced to do unfair labor and fed little food. The author creates an image when the Jews lined up to see if they still passed and looked like could work. The nazis would pull jews out of line if they looked frail and skinny, Elie would describe some of the Jews as skeletons bones showing and slow moving and head down. These people would end up going to the gas chamber. The author used the setting of the book to create the plot of the story, the first few pages the author described the concentration camp and talked about the barbwire and smoke filling the camp, this set up of the setting of the book cause they are there the whole time.one scene that was really strong was when they bombed Buna a pot of soup was sitting out in the open and one man ran out to get some and the bomb when off causing the man's face to go into the bowl frying his face and burning his face, the author made it very vivid.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your book a little bit since both our setting take place in a camp but yours is a lot different.
DeleteI am reading the book "A Street Cat Named Bob" and in the story it takes place in London. The two main places in London that the book talks about is James's apartment and Covent Garden where James plays his guitar for money. The book is set in the early 2000's and the part I'm at right now is during Christmas. James uses the image of the large crowds of tourists to create the image of being trapped but also the image of wealth. James took a trip to Piccadilly Circuit one to try to get money but the overwhelming crowds scared bob and he ran off. I'd say this image is memorable because it was a large conflict as James is frantically looking for bob. If your book takes place in London if would be similar to this book.
ReplyDeleteIn my book City 1, it focuses a lot on the characters and how they are and their relationships with other characters one of settings the author described that made me feel like I was there was one the main character Kevin arrived at a rebel campsite. The author described it as being well hidden from other people with lots of trees around and rugged terrain lots of tents. If i were the author that is how I would describe it. The author does use this for the plot because this is where most of the book had taken place to far. A particular scene in the book that made visualize that I was there was when they were in the medic tent and is said that it was the biggest tent of them all with bright lights hanging from the ceiling.
ReplyDeleteMy book also focuses on the relationships with others as well. When the plane went down, the American soldiers had to interact with the village men and women who spoke an entirely different language. After going from village to village, they finally met someone who spoke broken English but is taking them to safety and hopefully getting them out of Yugoslavia.
Deletemy book is vary similar in that way it focused on the connections that they have with each other and they way it relates to life
DeleteMy book has a similar style where it focuses on certain characters. Grant and his wife have multiple chapters. Relationships with characters is also one of the settings my author chose as Grant and his wife try to maintain a healthy marriage.
DeleteI am reading Wild Life by Cynthia DeFelice. the author gave not many descriptive scenes in her book, and ones she did described were very detailed and left a picture for the reader. It takes place where a boy named Erik had to move to his grandparents house, and live there for 6 months or more. Soon He finds a dog that was hurt ,so he called for help, and he became attached to the dog and didn't want to leave it so he takes off with the dog taking supplies including a shotgun for hunting. One scene I imaged when he saw an abandon barn and what it could of look like.
ReplyDeleteRaymond usually keeps most the details out and lets reader fill in the setting around what the action is
DeleteMy book is the opposite, the author constantly describes what is happening in the book and when one of the monsters attack a person during the night he describes the entire thing with such great detail that the reader is able to get an image in their head of what is happening.
DeleteIn The Body, Steven King sets the setting by going into detail about everything around them. He uses things like smell, taste and feel to describe the things around them and the things they do. The forest is a good example of this as he goes into so much detail about the forest around them and the train tracks that its hard not to imagine them. Also when they went across the river, he described how clear the water was, but also how dead it was because there was no fish. He does use the setting in my book because they have to survive from their surroundings, and explaining their surroundings helps visualizing what they are doing and what they are going through.
ReplyDeletein my book dawn elie is also very discrptive about the strggles he goes through while in the jewish group he also talks about how cold it is out and just makes it sound so brutal
DeleteSteven King also uses great imagery in my book, it seems he doesn't leave out a single detail.
DeleteRaymond Author of The Last Templar has the book places in modern time. In one part of the book Raymond has a part where you go back in time to the early 1300s and describes a horrible tourer chamber that had dried blood and dark gray brinks that looked almost like little spikes poking out the walls and sounds of people getting tortured would fill the room but on that one day it was quite and all he could hear was his thoughts and a rat moving around. Yes Raymond uses the setting to make it seem like a real FBI setting and medieval chamber for that one part. He usually uses the surrounding in the book for when something happens to it but also makes it seem like you are in that position but for the most part it is like a blur. But most settings are random but one that keeps coming back is the hospital because it seems very one in the books is getting hurt or visiting someone. once in a while a briefing room for the FBI, or at home where the archeologist researches the templars and what the device is.
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ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of Night Elie and his family are forced to moved into a blocked off area of the city of SIghet called a ghetto. The way it was described in the book made it an easy picture for me to understand while reading. They couldnt leave the ghettto and only jews lived there so it was like their own little city. When they left to go to concetration camps he was very descriptive of train cars they were moved in and the gates of the camps they arrived at. While at Buna Elie was constantly describing the prison blocks they stayed in since there was so many they were everywhere he looked.
ReplyDeletei am reading the book dawn the one that comes after night and i think elie is greaat at using his descriptive words
DeleteI also am reading Night and thought that the way the author describes the places and slowly glances over things in a deliberate way was interesting. It made the book a good read.
Deletein my book dawn by elie wiesel there is many discriptive words that elie uses that really just immerses me and really puts me into the book. the book dawn kind of has an erie feel to it has he is sent out to assasinate john dawson and for some reason even reading i could hear the deep voices of people talking to elie one specific part i can see is when the the leader of the jewish group tells elie that if he sees a face in the window its time to part out in to execute john dawson. when that eventually happened he sees the face he described an old man white hair and no teeth that had a dead stare through the window. this kind of freaked me out during my reading
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm reading Night by Elie Wiesel and I definitely agree with you when you say you can actually see what's going on. He uses really good descriptive words, and it helps me see what's going on.
DeleteMy book Night was about how jews were treated in labor camps during WWII. The auther showed the setting and the feelings of Elie in the story very well. In the beginning he would talk about all the horrible things Elie was seeing in a detailed description. As the book went on and Elie's mind bacame more used to all of the horrible things that were happening around him the auther would slowly creep away from describing it in detail. This described the way Elie slowly got numb to the way the camp was and impacted the story greatly.
ReplyDeleteYeah I connected this book with my book because like you said it gave a lot of detail at first and then slowly went away from the details and just gave out the story more.
Deletein my book into the wild it also does a good job at putting you in the environment and seeing what the characters see which makes it a thousand times better to read
DeleteI am reading the book The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. The most descriptive scene is the murder scene in this book. He uses gruesome descriptive words and I could visualize it really well. My book is about a girl who killed her husband and now she wont speak to anyone. The narrator describes the murder scene in great detail that it sent a chill through out my body. Through out the book the author describes many mature and eerie scenes making me want to read more.
ReplyDeletemy book is the same its very descriptive and my book also has some scary situations as well
DeleteMy book it ends with us gives me the same feeling with the chills, and the way my book is described. The main character goes through a lot of uncomfortable, scary situations as well because she has to deal with an abusive relationship.
DeleteI am reading down to the last out and my authors book takes place in the 1950's as an African American baseball player in Alabama. he creates the images just by giving deep explanation and examples of what he was seeing and hearing at the time of whatever he's talking about. my book focuses a lot on discrimination and what black people had to do in order to be safe in public. a few of the scenes are easy to picture just because of the descriptive wording he used. making it feel like you are in his shoes.
ReplyDeleteMy book did the same, The way he wrote the book you could picture everything and feel it to it was like you were there with him.
Deletei can relate my book to yours, because my main character Andy is in prison because he was convicted of murder. Although he isn't African American, he explains that as a convict at Shawshank, he has no worth anyway.
DeleteAre books i feel can relate because Elie faced many problems through his journey because he was a Jew.
DeleteAre books are similar in my book you could feel like you were there in that moment, very detailed and discriptive
DeleteIn the book The Winter Room Gary is the author and he describes the setting by telling every little detail and he keeps describing the different seasons as he works through each season on the farm. I would say this story is really old because they are using horses to do the harm work and they are not a certain religion so that's how I know its old. Yes he uses the setting to develop the plot. when he said "After dad finished the last row of harvest season he parked the horse and he said get in his truck we are going to the pond and so we jumped in the pond and the breeze was blowing and the leaves were all on the ground and they were all different colors and that's how I knew it was fall. This book connects to Elie Wiesel because they both went through the different seasons and they both struggled.
ReplyDeleteMy author does the same thing in a way, he is very descriptive and talks about how the seasons in the town have changed and what that looks like in the town, even giving the time the morning rises till the sun sets on the town and what dangers occur in the darkness.
Deletethe author colleen hoover is not very specific of the setting of the book reminders of him. one part i can picture easily is when leger give Kenna a ride home for the first time. Kenna describes his truck very vividly. its orange and he is parked in a back alley behind a bar. the place the book takes place doesn't have anything to do with the plot of the book. but this one part just sticks with me because ledgers bright orange truck get brought up a lot.
ReplyDeleteI am also reading a book by Colleen Hoover and I think the way she describes the settings in her books can be hit or miss. Some of her novels focus more on the details of the environment than others.
DeleteI am reading the book Night. This book is about this boy whose family is involved in the holocaust. Its manly about the boy and how he survives it. He describes what he sees. Not in great detail but enough to know what's going on. He describes there not being any floors to the buildings. Just the wet mud their feet would dig into. As he tells the story, he describes specific scenes of people going crazy and mad. Thats when you could feel their actual pain. I've read other books about war but the things the boy describes is just crazy.
ReplyDeleteIn my book "Salem's Lot" by Stephen King he describes the settings by what the characters see and hear descriptively. Describing what they are seeing very well and how they feel. I would describe the time and place in the novel the same way Stephen King does in a way. The time is set around the 1970s and is in a small town in Main called Jerusalem's Lot. It is a usual small town, nothing much really happens and when something does occur the whole town knows of it. King uses the setting to develop the plot because he constantly talks about the roads in the town, people in the town, and stores in the town that take part in it persistently. An image that the author creates that is memorable to me is when he describes what happens to the vampires that appear at night, or when they attack people. He does a very good job at describing those moments.
ReplyDeleteit sounds like most of the books by this author are described very well.
DeleteIn my opinion Stephon King is very good at describing what is happening and what everything looks like without using pictures in his books. Based on the Stephon King books i have read,
DeleteMy book is also set around the 1970's, though sometimes it feels like it's older because of the way some of the characters talk. I feel like evrytime a story takes place in a small town that gossip spreads fast because in my book the talk about who could've murdered Chase spread within a day and you said that if something happens in the town in your book that the whole town knows about it.
DeleteJust like your author, mine describes scenes like no other. He uses very descriptive words and uses a wide variety of figurative language to paint a picture in the reader's mind. Makes for such a better read that way.
Deletein my book into the wild. the author does a really good job of being descriptive and he tells the life of Chris and the interactions Hes had with people along his journey. one part that was descriptive and something that stuck with me was odd, but he did it so well you could picture it. so the part that he describes is when Chris gets his car stuck after a flash flood ruins his car and so he left it behind with a lot of gear that he had and couldn't take it eventually rangers find it and describe every detail of the car and its components inside and there's a lot so i can't really explain everything but this book is very different from anything I've read because they do a good job putting you in his situations
ReplyDeleteMe and your book are very similar, My author is very discriptive and into detail as well.
DeleteIn my book Shawshank Redemption there is one main setting which is the prison. The character paints the picture of a very old and outdated prison filled with most convicts that are doing long or life sentences. The main character, Andy Dufresne, came to Shawshank in 1948. The author uses the time span of his sentence to develop the plot, by using years, and showing how Andy's mental and physical state are at that time. A particular setting that is memorable is the laundry room where Andy started out working, a dark steamy room that i imagine smelling musty. Here, there is limited guard watch, so a certain gang uses this to their advantage to torment vulnerable prisoners. Steven King points out every detail of the prison, and keeps the setting there, which makes the reader feel like they are also serving time.
ReplyDeleteIn Varity, Colleen Hoover is a writer who creates the image in your head as your reading it. In one particular scene she is describing the accident that had just happened in front of Lowen the main character. Colleen describes it with "the guy's brain matter was cover on me". Now after this accident we know that he had had to of exploded and it just made me feel like I was standing next to her at the street corner one morning in the big city. She writes so smooth into making everything see so realistic and easy for the reader to envision and feel like they were there watching it happen.
ReplyDeleteI am reading a book by colleen hoover also, and I can agree that she makes everything seem realistic and it feels like you're in every scene read in her books.
DeleteI have read this book and I remember this exact scene. I am reading a different book by Colleen Hoover and I am a little disappointed in it because the details are not nearly as good in this boo as they are in Verity.
DeleteIn my book, the story of the second world war, The images stand out by shining in the detail factor. The majority of the book is scenes and imagery so its heavily detailed around every page. its very consistent too unlike most of the books I've read. the author manages to make every image able to remember because the books purpose is to make that happen so the reader gets a clear vivid image of history. I have recently read about the battle of France, and the book took two pages describing French architecture, which is wild.
ReplyDeleteIn my book, it ends with us the author Colleen Hoover describes everything super well. Her tone and the choice of words helps you picture exactly what's going on. One part in the book that I can picture very well is when Lily Bloom and her husband were in the kitchen making food. Ryle her husband forgot to use oven mitt's and burnt himself and ended up pushing lily against the cabinets. Lily didn't recognize her husband but saw her dad because he was very abusive. This entire setting was described very well, and I could picture it as if I was there.
ReplyDeleteIn my book Dear John by Nicholas Sparks, he also does a great job of describing things to make it feel like you are there. There is also a scene of John and Savannah in the kitchen that I can picture very vividly.
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ReplyDeleteIn my book, Regretting You by Colleen Hoover, it can be hard to picture the actual setting of the story. She does a really good job of describing how the character feel in different places throughout the story, but she does not really describe the actual places much. This can sometimes make it difficult to picture the place that the characters are in, but it also gives the reader the freedom to make up their own place in their head.
ReplyDeleteYour book sounds similar to mine. My author, Sofie Cramer, does the same thing of not necessarily describing the setting, rather than the character's feelings. My author focuses on Clara's emotions and grief, rather than the setting of Germany.
DeleteMy book Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados, takes place in New York, during of the summer of 2013. She does a good job of describing the places, bars, houses, and apartments that Isa and Gala go to for parties and events. Most of the bars and art galleries that they attend kind of seem the same because the same thing basically happens at them, but when I am reading these scenes I can imagine and tell that Isa and Gala are at different bars because Marlowe does a good job at describing them differently and defining that they are at this bar or party on this day and this part of New York. She does use these settings to develop the plot line because these bars are where they meet people that help them get what they want in New York. A place that I can visualize is Coop's house in the Hamptons because I imagine a huge old colonial mansion by the beach with a nice cut lawn. I think that it is vivid because how Marlowe made Isa describe it and how she described Coop as a rich British kid with old money who has a house in the Hamptons.
ReplyDeleteMy book also takes place in New York! There are also many bars and parties in my story (despite the main character's being mostly under 21). Your story contains art galleries and parties, though, and that makes me think maybe our characters are attending very different parties. XD
DeleteThe setting is a prison called Cold Mountain. The meaning of the title is revealed right away why that prison is referred to as the green mile. The reasoning behind it is because the color “tired old limes” is plastered on the linoleum floor for what would be the prisoner’s last mile in the separated part of the rest of the prison called E Block. It is the part of the prison where you would get electrocuted to death by a chair that they nick named Old Sparky.
ReplyDeletemy book title also has a meaning of the title my book is four dead queens it literally straight up means four dead queens.
DeleteThe author of my book, Varient, describes the settings of this story enough to know what everything relatively looks like but gives a bit of room to use your own imagination to think of what the places look like. The author mainly focuses on describing how the main character, Benson, feels throughout the story with his relationships with the school and the people in it. A memorable scene that is described is when Benson follows one of his friends down a dimly lit hallway that has a hospital like feel to it. He then descovers that she is an android when she plugs herself into a computer which leaves him in complete shock. That scene really suprised me because i did not see that coming at all.
ReplyDeleteMy author does the same thing yours does! She describes the setting slightly and allows a bunch of room for your imagination to work. My author also focuses on the main character, Clara, and what she feels as she is grieving the death of her fiance.
DeleteIn my book, Where the Crawdads Sing, the story takes place in a marsh. The author describes the marsh in great detail, but each scene is described in very vivid detail. The author does a great job with imagery, it really puts me in the characters shoes and makes me feel like I'm actually there. The most memorable sense of imagery is when Kya is first living on her own and smokes fish in this shed, because when it describes what it looks like I picture this outhouse smoking like it had a colored smoke bomb go off. For example, "Pa's old smokehouse-- the size and shape of an outhouse-- blue-gray smoke billowed and puffed up the chimney and through every crack in the walls. The whole shack huffing."
ReplyDeleteOh wow, I've seen the movie to this and it's amazing. The book sounds very descriptive.
DeleteI think in my book all scenes are described well but others are more vivid and get a clearer image.
DeleteIn my book, The Forgotten 500, the story takes place in Yugoslavia during the war. The author describes Yugoslavia pretty well, but he describes the interactions with other village members very well. Gregory does a great job with imagery allowing me to picture every scene like i was right there. One scene i could visualize would be when Musgrove, Wilson, and Oliver went to the lake to cool down. They came across a naked man on the bridge thinking he was friendly. Soon after, he alerted the surrounding German soldiers as he was one of them. The Americans took off into the woods running while throwing on any clothing they could. He used great detail and a great flow to make me picture what was really happening.
ReplyDeletewhen the author does a good job describing the surrounding, it makes the book more enjoyable
DeleteIn my book, the author is less heavily focused on imagery and much more focused on the regional setting and time period (those being New York and the '80s, respectively). The author most certainly uses the setting to develop the plot as it is centered around the AIDS epidemic, which was prevalent in NYC at the time. One memorable scene the author described was the first time the main character, Michael, met his love interest: Gabriel. The author writes about his eyes as their own entity. There is a just a solid paragraph about eyes meeting and exploring and holding each others gaze. That scene is etched into my memory because it was the first time the main character described something that way--without a sarcastic, cynical edge. I can still picture Gabe's fitted plain white tee and tight blue jeans and the way the light reflected the colors of the lights across his face. I can see smell the alcohol and hear the music all around me. The energy of everyone in the room is overwhelming, but in a good way. I feel like I understood the main character in that moment, and have felt connected to him since.
ReplyDeletein my book four dead queens by astrid scholte, the story takes place in the past. where four queens rule. it describes keralie and mackiel two ''bestfriends'' who steal from others. describes how the queens most have a female heir to ensure royal bloodline. the queens aren't very nice to their people. basically its sets up as a book with a lot betrayal and you never know what's happens. the imagine it gives me is four kingdoms that soon fell apart.
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DeleteI am reading the notebook by Nicholas Sparks and he does a really good job using imagery in his books. For instance, he was talking about how him and Allie got into an argument with Allies mom, and he was just so mad at her and Allies mom took her away. The setting occurs in multiple places, one at the nursing home, at the dream house, at Allies house, etc
ReplyDeleteWith the same thing happening over and over in different places I personally would get confused on where it was happening this time as trying to keep all of the times the something happened would be hard for me.
DeleteI agree, in my book the setting also occurs in multiple places but mainly between two others because my book begins with the present and then flashback to the past.
Deletei love this book and how extremely well the setting is described. Nicholas Sparks knows how to paint the images and setting so you can really get a better understanding of how the book is laid out.
DeleteI am reading the book Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. He does a great job of describing everything and making you feel like you are also there. One scene that I can picture is when John went to Savannah's house when they were no longer together. This scene just felt very clear to me and that I could see everything that was going on. I picture John and Savannah out by the barn just trying not to talk about their relationship. It is hard for John to see her married to a guy that isn't him.
ReplyDeleteWhile I personally cannot connect to what you have explained, I am able to understand what you are trying to say and that makes it easier to picture what you are saying.
DeleteThe connection i made here was your author making everything very clear my author also did the same in all aspects.
DeleteI am reading The Giver by Lois Lowry which takes place in a futuristic world where they decided that to protect the human rase they would take away what caused large amounts of problems which was differences, to fix that they created sameness which took away all differences and color. When there is a new place Lowry explains the new area from the main character's (Jonas's) point of view so while we may not get the full picture of the area we do learn about what catches his eye and over time as new things catch his attention we learn more about the area. Lowry uses the setting to signify what type of experience it will be. In the Annex it will either be joy or sometimes pain/fear, while at his home it can be a mix of tension of relaxed. Lowry does a good job of making the memories something that can stand out, they are always scenes that I can easily visualize. A connection that I have found between the three books I have read is that they all have their own set of rules that the main character/characters have to follow.
ReplyDeleteI am reading crossover by Kwame Alexander who puts his books kind of in a poem way he lines it all up in a certain way and tries to rhyme each verse like Hes writing a poem. int this book he does a good job to describe the setting by telling what time it is who's all around them where they are and the noises going on in the background as I read more and more, I feel as if I am in this book shooting a basketball into the net with a nice swish sound.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Night, the author Elie Wiesel shows through many drastic events what life was really like during World War two for the Jews. His setting took place on him traveling many different camps trying to survive for his life. One image that stuck with me after the book was when at the end Elie wakes up to his father no longer there. After it was almost over, he lost the only thing he was striving for.
ReplyDeleteyes, i read this book and Elie did a very good job explaining the camps and everything he went through in this tragic time
DeleteI wanted to read this book for our second book choice. It sounds like a good book based off your description and how well the author sets the image.
DeleteIn my book, The Prank, the author does a decent job setting the stage of the places they are pranking. He makes sure we know the surroundings so we can get a good picture in our head of the prank. When i read this book, i can really picture the pranks and whats happening in the background and how everything is playing out which makes this book a good read.
ReplyDeletei agree with the author letting us know our surroundings, he does a great job with the feel aspect.
DeleteThat sounds like a really good read because the author does such a good job describing things for you.
DeleteI finished the book Combination my author uses descriptive words, and he pinpoints exactly what's going on such as when a locker slams you can feel the vibrations of the slam. How I would describe my novels time and place would be I would put it in a small town right outside a big city. I would say no my author does not use the setting to help developed the plot only during the end of the book when he tries and lifts the tile to unlock the combination to save the school. I would say the author paints the picture of when Miranda got into her AP chem class, and the teacher said take out your vials and she had lost hers.
ReplyDeleteIn my book Rangers Apprentice the author doesn't focus much on the setting, like he will paint a picture in your mind but then will move onto other things in the book. He really focuses on the emotions of the characters more and how they interact with each other rather than making a setting for them to be in.
ReplyDeletei wounder why he didn't pay more attention to the background details.
DeleteMy book Night is the complete opposite. The author describes the setting so you can picture it in your brain and see what you are reading. He does a very good job at describing the places in which the characters are in the book
Deletein my book the author creates a picture of a small raiding town in islandic region doing vary well at describing the small huts and cold winters most people barley getting by making sure you realize just how poor some of them are as well as just how rich others can be and are making it so vivid you can almost see the small dinner that is owned by halts mother the main character
ReplyDeleteThe author creates an image of the setting by adding detail and explaining what he sees and describes that object or scenery. The author uses a form of reality with imagination creating a romance in others POV when they read the book. Honestly if I had to describe the time it would be trickier because the book goes from one perspective to another so it is like flashbacks. The scenery of the place is in San Diego, California. Yes, the author uses setting to help develop a plot with the relationship the main character which is Tate and her brothers friend creates them to hide their relationship from Tate's brother. In the beginning of the book Tate's brothers friend is hovering the apartment door meanwhile he is drunk and the imagine of a drunk is created in Tate's head sine it is the first impression she has of him. So that image leaves Tate not wanting to be near him as he is seen as a drunk and mysterious since she does not know who he is yet. My setting is similar to other books because majority of the books created are romantic having to do with forbidding love or romance in general with a twist.
ReplyDeleteMy book does something similar where the chapters switch from being told from two different characters that are close a dad and a daughter. They are both trying to figure out the same thing but in working separately they learn different things.
DeleteI am reading Facing the Giants. In the story the authors do an okay job about describing the scene around what is happening. In this novel the story tells you when the story takes place. My novel takes place in 2003. The author also doesn't use the setting to help the plot either. There is one scene that I can imagine. It is when Grant tells his wife Brooke that his sperm count is low and they are not able to get pregnant. He describes how Grant and Brooke break down and cry with one another. It is so vivid because of the way Grant had been hiding from his wife because of that and I can only imagine how he felt.
ReplyDeletecolleen hoover isn't very descriptive of the setting besides that they're in boston, at Lilly's flower shop, or her apartment. most of the time she is reading past entries from Lilly's old childhood journals, which paint a clearer picture of the story. Lilly often describes the moment she is currently in with the person it involves. she will describe a moment so vividly that you can see it in your head. for example, like when Ryle knocks her down and she hits her head on a cabinet handle. she tells how the thick blood from her head trickles down her face and how her skin pulses and everything moves in slow motion. you really get your own image of each character in your head.
ReplyDeleteIn my book Lost in the Pacific 1942, the author creates an image of the setting by including descriptive word and adding alot of detail to it. The author uses a great form of reality, like when plane B-17 crashed and detailed the impact the members on the plane had taken after it went down. And also shows images for each event that occurs throughout the story. He creates images that are memorable like when An explotion rocked the Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor. You can your own image in your of each event and battles that take place.
ReplyDeleteit sounds like a very descriptive book.
DeleteThe opening setting of my book, Watch me Disappear, is of the family and a day they spent at the beach. The author, Janelle Brown, used all the senses like describing the way it look the people they saw, the feeling of the cool air, the salty air. The path they took later that day that lead to a forestry are where butterflies cocooned. They wanted to watch them hatch. It was busy and the author described these two scenes in the book very well. She had other settings that were well describe but those scenes were a couple of the best in the book.
ReplyDeletethe start of my book was the main character running. and the first part of the book was not as descriptive as the rest of it in the rest of it the author describes the smell and the conditions of the place. there were even real pictures of the place in one of them there was a dead man leaning over the sink trying to get water but died before he got any.
ReplyDeleteIn the book night the setting is unsettling and sometimes makes you sick to your stomach.The author did a great job describing the areas in the book so you could get a good mental picture of what you were reading. In Night the Jews are often in what they call "Cattle trains" they fill these trains with 80 plus jews and they are all so crammed together they cant lie down or even sit unless they take turns. One image the author made very clear was when the Jews were being transported in the cattle cars and they could smell the stench of burning bodies as well as seeing fire and smoke. As well as the SS officers telling the Jews to throw out any dead bodies in the trains as during these journeys a lot died of suffocation or starvation.
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