Location, Location, Location
Where does your novel take place? How is it significant to the time period? How does it impact the novel? How does it impact the characters? Could the novel have taken place anywhere or is it dependent upon this location? Why or why not?
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The book Soldier's Heart starts in Minnesota where a 15 year old boy lies about his age and joins the civil war. He went to a lot of battles so he moved around a lot all over NorthEast America
Matilda Bone takes place on Blood and Bone Alley which is not a real place but is signifigant to the time period. It is important because it it where most of the medicinal treatment takes place. Leeching, bonesetting, and other fantastical variatons on curing disease like rotten eggs as a love potion or rubbing saliva to heal ailments were believed in medieval times. Blood and Bone Alley supports the time period by giving these treatments.
my historical fiction book takes place in pittsburgh pennsylvania.
My novel starts out in London, England, but then moves to the titanic where it all takes place. This is a significant time period because the titanic is in the middle of the Artic ocean, and it is frezzing outside. This means that it is character vs. nature story. This impacts the novel because if the titanic wasent in the middle of the Artic, and it was frezzing, and if the Titanic didnt sink there wouldnt be a story! No this novel couldnt have taken place just anywhere. Since it took place in the Artic thats what makes the story. If it took place in the Picific ocean or the Atlantic ocean bacause it is not cold, and there is no glaciers. So the titanic wouldnt have sank and there wouldnt be a story or climax. So the whole idea of the character vs. nature and there wouldnt be a story!
The book secret of the andes is about a lillte boy from Peru. His name is Cusi he runs away from home to the hidden valley. On his time away from home he is trying to learned info on his dead ancestors.Slowly he discovers the truth about his history and his birth.
The book Or Give Me Death starts off in Williamsburg and ends up in New Jersey. A family during the war hires a slave which takes care of them while Ann Henry's mother Sarah is slowly loosing her mind and going crazy. Its is significant to the time period because today there is no slavery and times were really different in the 1800's then they are today. No the novel couldn't of taken place in any other time because slavery does not occur today and there is some medication people can take for that sort of illness and i am pretty sure there was rarely any medication back then.
My book is called "Elizabeth I Red Rose of the House of Tudor." My novel takes place in England(the Tudor family have palaces that they visit all over England). Elizabeth is the daughter of King Henry VIII. I don't think the novel could have taken place anywhere else because King Henry is an English king. If he were a Scotish king, then there would most likely be different events, especially since the Scotish and the English weren't very friendly at the time.
The book The loud silence of francine green takes place in Hollywood where she lives above where moviestars and famous people come to celebrate.
My novel ( The royal diaries of Kristina- The girl King) takes place in Stockholm, Sweden in 1638. The location is significate to the time period because at this time in Sweden there were lots of wars going on in so her father had to go to war alot and when he died Kristina was only 10 and already a King. After he died Kristina moved alot in between castles when living with her mom to living with her aunt. This novel could have been taken in other European Monarchy times but not in the modern time like this century. Also the book could have taken place in other countries like Germany where her mother came from or any where else as long as it's not modern time.
My story, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, shows the struggle of a family who work hard for little. The location is placed in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1900's. This location is important to this time period because this area had very little money. This situation still applies to numerous areas in the country and around the world.
My book Keeping Corner take splace in Gujurat,india and it is very hot and in the book it says that now the country is going threw a drought and that it is very hard to grow crops and that they are trying tofind an alternate route on what the farmers are going to do for food and for money.
My book, Bella at Midnight, takes place in the Kingdom of moranmoor, in the village of casle down. It is not a real place but, it represents the tipical medieval Kingdom. It supports the time period.
the book shadows on the sea takes place in winter haven, maine durong world war II. this location is significant to the time period becuase during world war II the ocean around maine was surrounded by tons of german u-boat submarines. these u-boats used messanger pidgeons to communicate with german agents on the american shores which causes the whole plot and story to take place.
My book, Lily’s crossing, takes place in rockaway New Jersey during World War 2. This is impacts my book because when Lily first moves there, there is nobody her age. Then this boy named Albert moves there because he has lost his family in the war.
My book The Journal of Ben Uchida takes place at the Mirror Lake internment camp. This camp is located in Mirror Lake, California.
The Whipping Boy takes place in a castle with a king, a prince and a whipping boy. it is significant to the time period because in the early 1700's there were kings and castles and a prince.
my story "the journal of patrick seamus flatherty" first takes place at patricks house and hes talking to his dad about the war because his dad was previously** in the army in world war II.and his dad tells him just to do what he has to do in the war to get things done.
My book, "Letters from a Slave Boy" by Mary E. Lyons, is about a boy who was born into slavery due to his mother, Harriet, being a slave. Once he turns about 12 years old, he travels to Boston, Massachusette in order to live with his mom and his sister, Lulu. Later in the book, he travels to California, Australia, and North Carolina.
My book: ANASTASIA THE LAST GRAND DUCHESS takes place in Russia. She is part of the "imperial family" so she lives in many different palaces and travels a lot. How ever when her father declares war a lot of that changes. For example, most of the people of Russia don't think that he was right to help out Serbia when Germany was giving them trouble so they don't travel as much any more for fear of assassination attempts. Also Anastasia's mother was born in Germany and she has a lot of influence over Russia. Due to this a lot of Russians believe she is a spy and should be kicked out of Russia, at least during the war.
My book "one eye laughing, the other weeping" first takes place in Vienna, Austria. But when Hitler has the Nazis invade Austria, Julie's brother flees, and she is sent to live in New York with her Aunt and Uncle.
There she gets involved in the theater because her Aunt Clara is a famous actress.
my book:"The girl who chased away sorrow"Takes place in New Mexico;in 1864.This story is about a Navajo Girl named Sarah Nita.Who is captured by the blue soilders.
The fact that my book "Crispin" is located in England in 1377 has a huge impact on the story. This book is about a peasant boy on the run for his life. This was in the Middle Ages and I think that if this story took place in a setting like China in 1377, the story would be completely different.
Kelli does sarah try to kill her self because she goes so crazy
My book ("Just Jane") Takes place in the 17 hundreds. the story takes place in jamestown, Virginia. This is when the American Revolution takes place, and she is caught in the middle of it.
the Book "Pandora of Athens" takes place in Athens (a greek city). they never leave the city but the 2 mains chgaracters eventually escape and live in peace, no matter what the people tell her, she still left.
My book "I had seen castles" takes place in pittburgh pennslyvania during world war 2. During the main characters trip into war it takes place in germany, italy, and frace.
The book "The Wednesday Day" story setting is in the U.S. The story never indicated where in the United States, but it does take place there.
The book starts out in Minnesota in 1861.he never left Minnesota before.He never left untill he went untill the civil war
This book " Girl in blue" takes place 1861 where a young lady named Sarah louisa whhelock dresses up as a man and says she's 18 and joins the flint union greys who is a regiment that becomes a part of the 2nd Michigan infantry during the civil war.
My book takes place in the heart of new york city right before the turn of the century (1899). This is a time when alot of people were lower class. This drives most of the events frm this story.Finn A 12 year old kid has to sell newspapers after school to help his family make a living. This could have taken place in chicago but New York City was perfect.
My historical fiction book, "Mine Eyes Have Seen", takes place in North Eastern United States, such as Massachusetts, Maryland, and New York. In this time, most of the northern states were against slavery. By Annie Brown and her family living in this area, they are in less danger than they would be in the south, where slavery was an important business. Annie Brown's father helped with escaping slaves and if their family lived in the south, the slave owners would not approve of his beliefs. The location impacts the characters more than the novel itself. So far in the book, I don't think the novel could have taken place just anywhere. In the United States, slavery had the biggest impact on the east coast in the 1800's. The setting of the novel would be much different if the location had been different.
The location in this novel is on an old fashioned whale boat in the artic oceans trying to survive and make a living in the rough ocean.
In my book "Color Me Dark" it takes place in Chicago Illinois in the year 1919 during the great migration and the town has many segregation problems like schools, houses,and resturants, ect. where two eleven-year old sisters Nelli and Erma live with their mother and their Grandma Nessie
My book The Kite Fighters takes place in Seoul Korea in 1473. My book is significant to this location and time by in this book kite flying competitions are a part of the culture and custom of Korea. This impacts the novel by if it wasn't this location kite flying wouldn't really be a part of the characters life. In a different place kite flying competitions would not be a big deal and not considered one of the biggest events happening like it is in Seoul Korea. Also the location where the characters Kee-sup and Young-sup fly thier kites is ideal because it's on a hill where they could get a lot of wind to pick the kite up.
My novel, Number The Stars, takes place in Dennmark. This is significant to the time period because at this point, the Germans had control over many countries, including Dennmark. The Germans had soldiers stationed in these countries to make sure that no one escaped, and their rules were being followed. Also, many Jewish people were living in Dennmark. This period was during WWI and WWII. The Germans started to take the Jewish's property and rights away. For example, the stores that were being run by Jewish families were closed and the families weren't allowed to open another business. Eventually the German soldiers began to capture the Jewish families and not let them live in Dennmark anymore. Some of the main characters in the story were a family of three Jewish people. The family has to try and make it to Sweden with the help of their friends, where the German soldiers weren't stationed. This put both families in danger. Number The Stars had to take place in Dennmark. If it hadn't taken place here the surcumstances involving the Germans would have been different. There may have been less soldiers or even none at all. Plus, at this time, the Germans were watching Dennmark carefully because there were known to be alot of Jewish people there. It was alot harder to escape from Dennmark than some of the other countries that were having some of the same issues.
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The story brooklyn rose takes place in the early 1900s'.She has a sister who is sixteen and they don't get along very well because they argue about little things such as who looks better in which certain color dress.There dad arenges a marrage for them and rose has to go to New York with tis strange man named rene who loves her but she dosent know if she loves him.
My book takes place in Manhattan New York near ship yard. The significance of the time period is that it took place during the Civil War. Also Tom helps Captain Ericson on his ship he is making.
The fact that my book "Crispin" is located in England in 1377 has a huge impact on the story. 1377 was in a time period called the middle ages. In England they had a type of government called Feudalism. This means they have a King, nobles Priests then commons and finally the peasants. Crispin is a young 13-year-old peasant boy and is charged with a crime that he didn't commit. Now he is sentenced to die and he is on the run for his life. I think that if this story was located in a place like China in 1377, then the story would be completely different.
My book takes place on Fenwick Island Delaware in the middle 1800s.
This affects the characters because the location being on Fenwick Island they have to be in charge of the lighthouse. Also this was during the civil war so many states around them like Georgia are leaving the union.
"The Journal of William Thomas Emerson" takes place in Boston, Massachussetts during the Revolutionary War, this is important because there was a lot of action in Boston during this time and was a dangerous and hard place to grow up in because of all the fighting.
My historical fiction book is about a 14 year old kid named C.J Jackson. C.J lives with his family of six in Oklahoma. Him and his family try to survive the huge dust storms that have been terrorizing the town of Cimarron county.
This story takes place in Texas at Bass's home on a ranch. The ranch has a lot of cows that they have to take care of.
In my book "The Journal of Rufus Rowe" the main character Rufus Rowe runs away from his home because of problems with his step father. He ran to the town of Bowling Green,Virinia becuase he knew that he mother would know where he went. He ended up getting a job there working on a farm there for a place to sleep. Since hse lived in the south he supported the Confedrates. A couple weeks after he started working in Bowling Green a Baltoon of Confedrates came to so-call defend the town. When the owner of the farm Rufus Rowe was working at saw this they decided to leave the town. When this happened Mr.Rufus made friends with the soldiers. Then a couple days later a whole regiment of Union soldiers ("yanks") Came over the hill and set up camp.
andries... could you tell us more about your story? i would like to know more. in my story edgar allen poe stories, there is more then 1 setting. but some of the best ones are the setting in the raven, where he is his chambers, the pit and the pendulum, where he is a torture chamber. and the masque of the red death, where he is a blood red lit room.
My book is Numbering All the Bones it takes place in Georgia during the Civil War and the main character is a girl named Eulinda and she is a house slave on a plantation. Since she isn't white she has no rights and alot of slaves are running away to join the north in the war to beat the south and get rid of slavery.
My book takes place in Britain, England in 1909 to 1964. Back in 1909 the first police dog was first introduced to the police academy. The place where the whole story takes place in on this farm land owned by Sid Greave.
The book White fang II is starting out in Alaska in 1899. And there was a dog named white fang. Then a boy named Jack who find white fang and then they become real close then a guy name henery comes along and jack doesnt know him and white fang doesnt like it and starts to growl at him and doesnt like the guy.
The book "missippi trail, 1955" Takes place in missippi, In a small sleepy town. Where Hiram comes back to his old hometown, but a boy has been murdered and this takes him all over the town.
The book Atticus of Rome takes place in Rome.It starts in a village outside of Rome where Romans burn it down and take slaves.Then a rich man got a 12 year old boy at a slave auction and took him to his house in Rome.
My book The Amazing Thinking Machine takes place in a family of 4's home/neighborhood. It takes place mostly outside and in the garage. I know this because the invention they are building needs to be built outside and they get the tools out of the garage which is where his dad always builds all of his inventions.
The Whipping Boy takes place in a castle. It is significant to the time period because the time period is in the early 1700's and castles existed in the early 1700's. It impacts the characters because in the early 1700's there were kings, prince’s and peasants and in The Whipping Boy there is a king a prince and servants so it impacts the characters because kings, princes, and servants live in castles and were alive during the 1700's. No The Whipping Boy couldn't of taken any where else because it is dependent upon it's location in a castle because that’s where kings live it wouldn’t be right if the location was in a regular house so it is dependent upon it's location
The book "Vally of the Moon" takes place in Alta, California where a small girl and her family become slaves and get seperated from her family.
My book, "A Drowned Maiden’s Hair" takes place in England. It starts out in an orphanage called The Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans. Then the setting transfers to the Hawthorne Grove home to the people who adopted her. This is significantTo her because if she wouldn't have been in that orphanage she wouldn't have been adopted by those people who so far, are improving her life. This story could have occured somewhere else because the only event that made it occur here was the thing that the girls mother dropped her off at that certain orphanage.
My book Weetamoo Heart of the pocassets, takes place in massachsetts Rhods Island, in 1653 this place is signifigant to the time period because this is where the indians lived when the english took over. This place involves the life and death of the main charcter Weetamoo because she had to try to become the leader of her tribe the pocassets at the age 14 and still had to obey the english that eventually lead to her death
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The book Brooklyn Rose takes place in North Corolinaa. This fifteen year old girl named rose has a father,a mother and an older sister named heppi whose about to set of because she is seventeen and is about to move with her husband to the south.Her dad owens a cotten plantation.The story also takes place during the end of the revolutionary war and her dad is now getting Rose an arranged marriage to a handsome man named rene.He asked rose to marry him but rose is only fifteen and rene is tweentyseven,but rene says he loves rose they get married and soon move to Brooklyn Nwe york.
My novel takes place in Bradford Corners, Tennessee. This novel is significant to the time period because how they talk and how things are ran in Tennessee so Nellie and her family went to Tennessee because people were being lynched if they were in the NAACP. This impacts the novel because it creates tension with wanting to be in the NAACP but you have to be in the NAACP secretly. This impacts the characters by them having to start a new life in Chicago and meet new people. This novel has to take place in this location because in other places you could be apart of the NAACP with out having to keep it a secrete.
My book take place in Alaska in 1899 with a wolf named white fang II
My book takes place in Europe. The exact location isn't stated in the book. It is about a Jewish girl who lives during War World II. This is also the time in which The Holocaust is happening. This definitely effects her in a large way, because of this, her family is faced with a challenge. Whether to leave or stay at there house. This is very hard for them to decide also because, their father was just murdered by a Nazi.
This story takes place in Texas on ranch that holds slaves and a master who doesnt take care of himself.He always goes to Paris to look for a wife, but is not successful. Soon after that he stops looking for widows.
My historical fiction book "The Diary of Teresa Angelino Oiscardi" takes place in New York to Idaho Territory in the year 1883.
My book, Milkweed, takes place in Warsaw, during the 1900's. Nazi's roam around everywhere while you jus mind your own business. Jew a young boy (no he isn’t a Jew) it’s funny i know. In chapter 6 he gets stopped by a Nazi during a parade. He gets caught trying to run through the crowed because Jew Uri and some of there friends were playing a game. When the Nazi caught him he asked if he was a Jew and said well that’s good to know. It was really good not to be a Jew at that time because if you were then you would probably have to go to concentration camp, so he jus said that he was a Gypsy (That was the name that the boys in the stable called him because they didn’t hate him as much as Jewish people.
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