All The Truth That's In Me Analysis

I think the setting in All the Truth That’s In Me by Julie Berry is important because it directs all of the readers attention into the main conflict of the story and there are no distractions where the author goes off topic. The fact that it is set in such an old time where there is not eletronics and all the connections between people are made through real life encounters rather than through another medium. The complex human relationships and interactions that happen throughout the story are amplified by the simplistic setting. The fact that there were no cars and that Judith was living on a farm gave the characters a lot of time to think and gave the readers more time and mental space to study the characters thoughts. We are taken back in
a journey to experience and witness what it was like for women to have such a strict role to play in society, where they were only supposed to be housewives and their education was not that encouraged. This can be seen when Judith was pushing her brother, Darrell, to go to school and he said, “ ”(Berry 216). It is interesting to see how women back then were viewed and how they interacted with their society compared to what we got through now where usually women are just as encouraged as men to go to school. A very big element intertwined in this writing was the element of nature, nature runs throughout the whole story and almost adopts a role of another character. Whether it was during the war when Lucas’s father fell off the cliff or at the farm and garden where her flashbacks take place. It played a very big role in synchronizing the events. The setting as a whole created an atmosphere saturated with serenity, simplicity, coupled with intensity.