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Definition of Setting
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Part 2, Chapter 8
Explanation and Analysis:
On the Road takes place just after World War II, and it is set all over North America: New York City, New Orleans, California, Denver, Mexico City, and hundreds of little towns, rural locales, and roads in between. Kerouac's descriptions of the places he travels to are stylistically varied. Sometimes he emphasizes the appearance of the landscape, such as in this passage about Arizona:
We were in the mountains: there was a heaven of sunrise, cool purple airs, red mountainsides, emerald pastures in valleys, dew, and transmuting clouds of gold; on the ground gopher holes, cactus, mesquite.
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