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Name : Ridhoni Akbar (1810117210927)

Class : Extensive Reading

Describe briefly the settings of the shortstories from the second round.

No Titles The Short Settings


Story
1. A Jury Of Her Martha Hale is the protagonist, and, as a farmer’s wife,
Peers By Susan she is overworked by domestic tasks.The setting and time
Graspel period is also established. Martha must follow the men’s
instructions to come along on the trip, and Mrs. Peters is
belittled for her request to have Martha’s company.

2. The Outcasts of From the outset, the story is concerned with morality and
Poker Flat by Bret immorality, a dichotomy that Harte will complicate as he
Harte unveils his main characters. This passage also begins to
flesh out the settlement of Poker Flat and the American
Old West more broadly. The Sabbath is a day of rest in
Judaism and Christianity, celebrated on Saturdays and
Sundays, respectively.

3. The Big Sleep by The story takes place in Los Angeles or America in the
Raymond Chandler 1930s, where the murder is a usual work to do.
retold by Rosalie Marlowe finds out that Carmen Sternwood had killed the
Ker husband of her sister Vivian, because he
did not want to sleep with her. The old Mr. Sternwood
wants to realize that his daughter is as mad as she
was ready to kill a man.

4. A Rose for Emily The setting, or location, of William Faulkner's A Rose for
by Willian Faulkner Emily is a small town in the South. The story takes place
in the town of Jefferson, Mississippi. Like A Rose for
Emily, most of Faulkner's works are set in the fictional
Yoknapatawpha County, of which Jefferson is the county
seat.

5. The Devil And Tom The setting of Irving's fictional sketch is New England, a
Walker by The few miles from Boston, Massachusetts, in the early
Money-diggers eighteenth century, a historical area settled by Quakers
and Puritans where religious piety and fanaticism are
prevalent among the citizens.

6. Bon bon by edgar The story takes place in Venice rather than France, Pierre
Allan poe Bon-Bon is a well-known French restaurant owner and
chef, known both for his omelettes and for his
metaphysical philosophies. The narrator describes him as
profound and a man of genius, as even the man's cat
knew.

7. King pest by edgar King Pest is like The Hangover, if it happened in the 14th
Allan Poe century London during the Black Death pandemic. Before
the hangover part. It relates the adventure of two drunk
sailors who venture into a deserted part of the city,
escaping without payment from the local pub.

8. The Nightingale The student's garden, the doorway of his professor's


and The Rose by house, and the student's room. Almost all of the story
Oscar Wilde occurs in the garden, a place of quiet beauty. In the sunny
garden are groves of trees, individual trees that play roles
in the story, and a sundial.

9. Transiensts in The setting of a story is Henry gives the readers the


Arcadia by O. description of a desirable place. There is a hotel on
Henry Broadway that has escaped discovery by the summer-
resort promoters. It is deep and wide and cool. Its rooms
are finished in dark oak of a low temperature.

10 The Adventure of The setting of a story involves the time and place the story
. the Empty House occurs. This, like many Sherlock Holmes stories, occurs in
by Arthur Conan a series of flashbacks. For that reason, time becomes a
Doyle bit tricky. Watson is writing the story ten years after the
adventure takes place, as he was not allowed for legal
reasons to share sooner. He then sets into a flashback to
the decade before and sets the scene for the story in the
spring of 1894. This story takes place in that time and also
includes a flashback to Holmes's death a few years
before.
11 The Adventure of The setting of story, first the story taking place in Surrey in
. The Solitary Cyclist april 1895. Holmes is contacted by a beautiful young
by Arthur Conan music teacher named Violet Smith who lives near
Doyle Farnham in Surrey.
12 My Friend the The setting of the story is in an Australian prison. A doctor
. Murderer by Arthur at the prison is told that he should go listen to the amazing
Conan Doyle story of one of the inmates. The prisoner's name is
Maloney and it's questionable if he is crazy or just really
paranoid. Maloney was part of a gang of robbers and
privateers who were captured.

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