The influence of setting

  The settings of a story is very important. Just by writing a good setting, readers can be more interested in what is going to happedn later on. For example, if you see two different stories, and one is very specific and descriptive, the other is very vague and boring; which would you want to read? Of course the one that is more descriptive, right? When you read the descriptive settings, you feel like you can see what's going on, and where the characters were. The setting may also be a part of forshadowing. If the setting is very creepy, you may know that the story is going to be about something not so good. Think about "The Landlady" in the Holt Reader. The setting is descriptive, and how the author wrote it, makes people want to read on, and will start guessing about what's going to happen to Billy. We all know that something not good was going to happen to him, but how? And why?