Settings
The setting of the novel takes place in a village called St. Petersburg in the state of Missouri. Thru ought the story there are many smaller settings, such as:
· The Graveyard
· The School
· The Funeral
· The Court
· The Haunted House
· The Cave
All of these settings are different based on the way that they were written. For instance:
· The Graveyard: spooky, scary, mysterious
· The School: boring, slow, painful
· The Funeral: sad, mournful, depressing
· The Court: serious, strict, orderly
· The Haunted House: creepy, frightening, dangerous
· The Cave: dark, endless, hopeless
All of these settings are either scary , sad, serious, or boring because that is the way they were described. In the setting of the school, it says, ” The air was utterly dead. There was not a breath stirring. It was the sleepiest of sleepy days. The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees.”(Twain, 55). In the passage, it is describing the classroom as sleepy and full of dead air, meaning boring.
The setting of the novel takes place in a village called St. Petersburg in the state of Missouri. Thru ought the story there are many smaller settings, such as:
· The Graveyard
· The School
· The Funeral
· The Court
· The Haunted House
· The Cave
All of these settings are different based on the way that they were written. For instance:
· The Graveyard: spooky, scary, mysterious
· The School: boring, slow, painful
· The Funeral: sad, mournful, depressing
· The Court: serious, strict, orderly
· The Haunted House: creepy, frightening, dangerous
· The Cave: dark, endless, hopeless
All of these settings are either scary , sad, serious, or boring because that is the way they were described. In the setting of the school, it says, ” The air was utterly dead. There was not a breath stirring. It was the sleepiest of sleepy days. The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees.”(Twain, 55). In the passage, it is describing the classroom as sleepy and full of dead air, meaning boring.