Setting

Physical setting

The short story “Just Like That” by Michael Richards is set in Australia, as the story features kangaroos, which are only native to Australia: “They came to a large mob of browsing kangaroos. With their heads in the grass and their backs humped the roos looked like rounded red and grey rocks.” (pp. 26-27, ll. 43-44, l. 1)

The hunting trip starts in the morning, and the natural setting is described in detail:

The grass glistened in the early morning sun. The boy stretched hard to keep up. The wet grass was cold on his legs. Grass seeds stabbed through his socks and prickled his ankles. Flat seed stuck to his skin. The soft hair of his legs were soon matted and tangled with the sticky dew and the seeds from the grass. (p. 25, ll. 11-15).

Towards noon, the boy and the man reach a river and some trees: “They entered a cathedral of great river gums. The sun filtered through green stained-glass leaves” (p. 26, ll. 13-14). Later on, they move away from the river: “There were no big trees here. The open grass...