Looking For Alaska Setting Analysis
Looking for Alaska
Everything important in Looking for Alaska takes place on campus at the Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama. The setting probably takes place in the 21st century.
During the entire novel, the setting moves around many times in very specific ways. The weather at the beginning of the novel is hot and humid, and the good weather creates an atmosphere of happiness, but only at the beginning. In chapter 15, a rain storm begins in Alabama and there is intense rain happening for about a week. During this time, Alaska becomes increasingly moody and Miles takes it personally. The smells that are associated to Alaska, the vanilla and cigarette smell, plays an important role in the setting of the story. Miles has a certain attachment to this smell, and to him, it is a familiar smell that brings back good feelings. …show more content…
Divergent
The setting of the novel takes place in a ‘Futuristic, Dystopian Chicago’. There's a giant fence that locks everyone into the city; Lake Michigan has become a swamp; large parts of the city are crumbling or in ruins. It's now "a patchwork of new, clean buildings and old, crumbling ones" (3.35). We don’t really find out what happened to the city but it pretty sure wasn’t good.
A dystopian setting needs more than just some crumbling buildings. It needs some weird new government and society. Since Tris isn't one of the leaders, we don't see firsthand how the government works. But we do hear about it, so we know it's led by an Abnegation council with representatives from other factions coming in to speak, but not vote.
Society is organized so that each faction takes care of some particular part of the city. The Dauntless are the guards and security of the city, while Amity seems to be in charge of the farms.
But the big change between our time and Tris's time is the separation of the city into the five different
Everything important in Looking for Alaska takes place on campus at the Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama. The setting probably takes place in the 21st century.
During the entire novel, the setting moves around many times in very specific ways. The weather at the beginning of the novel is hot and humid, and the good weather creates an atmosphere of happiness, but only at the beginning. In chapter 15, a rain storm begins in Alabama and there is intense rain happening for about a week. During this time, Alaska becomes increasingly moody and Miles takes it personally. The smells that are associated to Alaska, the vanilla and cigarette smell, plays an important role in the setting of the story. Miles has a certain attachment to this smell, and to him, it is a familiar smell that brings back good feelings. …show more content…
Divergent
The setting of the novel takes place in a ‘Futuristic, Dystopian Chicago’. There's a giant fence that locks everyone into the city; Lake Michigan has become a swamp; large parts of the city are crumbling or in ruins. It's now "a patchwork of new, clean buildings and old, crumbling ones" (3.35). We don’t really find out what happened to the city but it pretty sure wasn’t good.
A dystopian setting needs more than just some crumbling buildings. It needs some weird new government and society. Since Tris isn't one of the leaders, we don't see firsthand how the government works. But we do hear about it, so we know it's led by an Abnegation council with representatives from other factions coming in to speak, but not vote.
Society is organized so that each faction takes care of some particular part of the city. The Dauntless are the guards and security of the city, while Amity seems to be in charge of the farms.
But the big change between our time and Tris's time is the separation of the city into the five different