THE

MARK
BY EDITH BULBRING
BACKGROUND
AND SETTING
HISTORICAL PERIOD CONFLAGRATION:
VERY
264 PC LARGE FIRE

(POST CONFLAGRATION)

 Story is set in the future

 Great destruction has taken place,
 Resulting in a flood and a ‘broken sun’  a post-
apocalyptic world
 EXTREME weather  discomfort and dehydration
 Filth, pollution, burnt environment
 Food no longer grows but is developed in a Lab
 GEOGRAPHICAL
SETTING
THERE ARE TWO CITIES WHICH THE CHARACTERS
INHABIT
SLUM CITY MANGERIA CITY
 Ghetto, neglected,  Wealthy area for the
 Poverty stricken Mangerians
 POLITICAL, SOCIAL  The drudges serving them
OR ECONOMIC reasons either travel in and out, or
force people to live here live on their premises
 Divided into different  Divided into different
sections for different sections, as determined by
groups its purpose eg The Pleasure Section
WEATHER
 Extreme weather patterns; either…
 Unbearable heat resulting in severe sunburn
 Or…
 Rains for months

 Sometimes floaters (slicks of burning oil) drift too

close to the shore  extreme air pollution

 The severe weather ADDS TO the general feeling of

misery within this futuristic, dystopian society