Setting

Physical setting

The events described in the short story “Zolo” by S. Bhattacharya-Woodward take place somewhere in the UK, most likely in London. This is especially shown in the description of the city skyline, where the glass structure and strange shapes sound very much like those in the center of London:

The view changed, the same grey rectangles and green lines fell below, but look straight ahead and past the tops of the other towers and there in the hazy distance were the gleaming pinnacles of the City. He tried to focus, but his attention drifted out towards the glass skyscrapers in their improbable shapes: concave; convex, skinny in the middle and flaring out at the top; sharp and pointy. (p. 3, ll. 106-110)

Zolo’s fascination with the city skyline might symbolize his longing for a different kind of world and the...