Setting

I dette afsnit har vi fremhævet nogle ting i Joy Boothe's "Jesse", som er værd at tage med i overvejelserne, når du analyserer meningen og beskrivelsen af miljø og omgivelser i denne novelle. Vi kommer blandt andet ind på sprog, geografi og socialt miljø.

Language

The detailed language used to describe the humid and warm environment that surround the family and the plywood mill create the setting of Joy Boothe’s short story ...

Language and imagery

Throughout the short story, the setting is described with a vivid imagery, and the atmosphere that surrounds both the house and the mill is described.

Even though the mill is described through the eyes of a nine year old who sees something very age-accordingly like a castle ...

The Southern United States

As mentioned, the story takes place over the course of 22 years, and we are told that she is eleven in the year 1963 (l. 92) which makes the historical context very relevant, and can be a good addition to your analysis of the setting in the short story.

The Jim Crow laws were enforced in the Southern United States until 1965. These laws mandated racial segregation ...

Social environment

Seeing that the story takes place in the Southern States in this particular historical period, it is worth mentioning the social environment in the short story.

The family is not particularly wealthy; they live in a house with a porch, and within walking distance to the mill where the father works hard and long hours:

“We leave on a porch light ...