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Entry #2: The Setting

 "Nobody can understand"- Vladek Spiegelman (Maus)
 "So only my little brother, Pinek, came out from the war alive...from the rest of my family, it's nothing left, not even a snapshot." - Vladek Spiegelman (Maus)

The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
The setting takes place in Puget Sound where unique creature are found and where it is cold.  Puget Sound is a place not affected by big cities or waste, so the natural sea life found in their are unique. How it affects the story is by making Miles and the ocean as one because Miles spends so much time by the shore and studies it carefully and the ocean provides him with food, money that he sels to other people by finding unique, edible creatures and a giant squid that first made him famous. The ocean can be beautiful as well as deadly, when the book's date reach Sept.8 the highest tide happened and the outskirts of Olympia was amazed at the power of the Ocean. Puget Sound is beautiful and at the same time, mysterious in the creatures that you can find.
-Benmark

Pirates! by Celia Rees
The setting is mostly at sea on a few different ships. The beginning of the book took place on Nancy’s plantation where she befriends Minerva. It’s sunny and tropical with cicadas and fireflies at night. There are ponds and swamps where alligators lurk. Hidden is the Fountain, which is a natural spring of water the plantation was named after. Nancy and Minerva go on various ships, and important scenes usually take place on the deck or in their room. It also takes place in bars and in a little village they build at the end. The time it’s set in is the era of slaves and plantations, when women and blacks were discriminated, and arranged marriages existed.
-Melissa

 Maus by Art Spiegelman
The setting for the most part is a bleak one. The story is about Archie’s grandfather Vladek who was a Jew is Nazi occupied Poland. The fact that Maus is a graphic novel really helps paint a more vivid setting, but sometimes that’s not the best thing. Archie Spiegelman goes into detail telling and showing the living conditions and the torture the Jewish people went through. The setting is not always so serious, Archie tells of his family, his daily mental troubles, and almost every moment he was with his father while writing the book. He even goes on to tell of the grocery trip and bingo. The setting may be a bleak on, but it is necessary, and really added to the subject of the story.
 -Michael

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
This takes place in a futuristic society like a utopia. There are 12 districts and the center capital that rules over the districts. Each district is poor, so you can imagine what they look like, and the capital is rich. The setting of the arena would be hard to describe because it changes every year, from artic tundra to a desert wasteland to a large forest. 
-Bret