The Influence of Setting

Setting can influence the story a lot. For examples, if the story takes place at a ancient palace. We can predict the story will be about a prince, ministers, or a king. It won't be about a business man, police officer, or a retired boxer. The setting can help us guess who and where are the characters. Discriptive informations can help the reader make a guess about the story. For example, the smoke was dark, the smell was bad, the palace had been ruined, the new owner of the palace laughed sonorously.  From the information, we can predict that the palace had been ruined and conquered by somebody else. Events and settings of the story have to be matched. Otherwise, the story will be weird. For example: an elephant is eating his lunch, and the place takes at the beach party. Why will an elephant be in a beach party? So we can see that the event and the setting are unmatched, that makes the story become strange. Sometimes, writer makes the character and the setting unmatched, in order to produce a cool and unique way. For example: a police man from the modern world gone back to ancient China to capture a criminal. That is like time travel, which makes the story become very intresting, and makes the readers become curious about it.