Research Paper on:
Setting as Portrayed in Works by Richard Shelton and Leslie Marmon Silko

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that the story had been longer so that they may spend more time with the character. Quite often at the conclusion of a novel, the reader feels as if he  or she would like to live in a place such as exists on the printed page. This is the power of setting. In both Lislie Silkos book, "Ceremony" and Richard  Sheltons book "Going Back to Bisbee", setting becomes an integral part of the landscape of the book. It can be said that just about any attribute one can ascribe  to a character can also be used to describe certain settings. A setting can be calm, at peace with itself, or seething, boiling and discontent as the odd angled buildings  and broken windows. It can be the quiet solitude of a rustic church, or the wild and garish colors of a Middle Eastern bazaar. Setting can be as active a  character in a novel and that without the ingredient of a strong setting, the plot, nor the character can move forward to the conclusion. The setting, in other words, defines  the characters that inhabit it. The clever author, then, it can be said, takes great pain to construct that sense of place that either makes a reader want to  visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Authors use many devices in building this fictional  dream, including the use of metaphors, symbolism, and the inclusion of the ordinary and mundane in new and innovative ways. Leslie Silkos novel, Ceremony, strives to example how important  the act of storytelling was and is a vital element in the lives of the Southwestern indigenous native cultures and how the white culture has subtly attempted over the years