Welcome back bloggers. The semester is almost over so, I'm on little or no sleep. This week's prompt is on setting. Where does the story take place, what's going on around the characters, time, climate, etc. These are very important factors in a story, well, it really depends on the story. Some more than others, but either way setting generally plays an important role. This week we had to choose a story that we read to analyze. Of course I chose Bears Discover Fire. Maybe my favorite story of the semester. I mean come on, bears are scary enough already, now they have learned how to wield fire? A pretty cool concept if you ask me. Anyways, setting definitely played a major role in this story. It takes plays in a heavily wooded area of the country near Virginia, Tennessee, Western Kentucky, that region. For those of you who are unaware, an area with a pretty dense population of bears; bears of all kinds as well. All over the area, the main characters, along with surrounding communities, notice bears everywhere are gathering together and lighting fires. They have replaced the common practice of hibernation with this new activity. Mainly gathering and making these fires on the outskirts of the forests and the medians along the highways. This shows that these bears are directly interacting with the human world. They are now closer than ever. I thought setting played a major role in the sense that if this took place anywhere else, chaos and destruction would follow. Imagine if bears arrived in an urban area like New York or Chicago. People who are not used to wild life more than something you would see in a zoo would not know how to react other than, "we must destroy these bears before the torch our asses!" Because this story took place in a more rural area, they adjusted to this new concept quite well. Also, as we see in the end of the story, the bears take to the locals quite nicely. They allow them to join their fire and sit with them as equals. Bobby, a farmer, Wallace Jr., an innocent child, and Bobby's mother approach the situation with curiosity and acceptance. Setting shows us that not everything is accepted everywhere and people are very different from you, depending on where you are.