Setting and Characterization of the story "Action Speak Louder than Words"

Action Speak Louder than Words

Hello everyone, in this occasion I will share my essay about setting and characterization about Jamie's story. Setting and characters is necessary used when we make a story. Jamie create a story with a simple plot that makes the readers easy to follow author's goals about the story.

The setting of time and place, it's a literary element of literature used in novels, short stories, plays, etc., and ususlus introduced during the exposition of the story. The setting of a story can change throughout the plot.

The setting of time is at a daytime, because it shown that the student is hiding with the teacher behind the desk, bags, folders, papers is still exist in the classroom and the corridor eventhough it seems worst because everything straggle everywhere. It shown at the intro which is said "Along the wide open, long corridor of this college lie piles of scattered belongings from students. Bags, folders, papers everywhere, it's like there was a sudden rush to get out."

The setting of place which is mentioned in the story, at the corridor, classroom, library of the college, and neighbour house. The statement of classroom is "Inside a classroom, desks and chairs have been kicked over and pushed out the way. Behind the desks lies another DEAD BODY..." The statement of another corridor is "In another corridor of the college is the exact same picture. Except in this one we can see BODIES lies on the floor. They're not moving..." The statement when the  characters start the conflict in the library is "The black boots enter again. They're walking towards the entrance of the library. Just as they get there..." And the last place as a setting of place is neighbour house which the statement told by antagonist character "He couldn’t even hide himself.
Every time we would play hide-n-
seek it would be so easy to find
him. He would hide in the most
obvious places. A cupboard. A
wardrobe. Under the bed. Too
obvious. Whenever it was my turn to
hide I had much better places. One
of my favorites was my neighbors
house."

In In t story there are 5 characters which name is Aaron as a protagonist, Kevin as a antagonist, female as a flat characterization, Kevin's Mom and Dad as a flat characters too.

-Female-
The female is mentioned as a victim of Kevin's brutality.

-Kevin's Dad-
Dad in this story positively has strong effect for main character.

-Kevin's Mom-
The negative effect for main character because she was not even care about her child and it give huge effect for main character to be bad oerson in his whole life.

-Kevin-
As a antagonist character and also the main character because he was the trouble maker, Kevin play in a dynamic way, the author developt the character from nice person to be a bad person. The social culture like party and drunk in a nightclub is mentioned in the story "just last Friday I went out to this really cool nightclub.." Kevin has many problem in his life, his heart is full of madness and he got mental breakdown for a long time in his life. He tired of being neglected by his mother since his farher died, he try to tell everyone about his problem but there is never change his life at all. It make Kevin have decided to kill everyone who never taking care of him at the college.

-Aaron-
As a protagonist Aaron play in a static way, there is no development of the character, Aaron just accept what the antagonist said and do. Aaron is a teenager same as the other character that live in America with their social culture setting who likes party and get drank in a nightclub. "I was really drunk, that’s why I fell into the punch bowl..." In this story Aaron try to be friendly with Kevin who Aaron already knew that he has killed eveyone. Aaron feel sympathic about Kevin's life because no one try to be friend with him. But when Aaron start talking about not every bad things will be in our life forever it will be passed away, just walking forward "There’s times in life when we go through some really terrible shit. But eventually all the terrible shit is put aside and you move forward in life..."

The characters make progress in a whole story so it makes the story feel so real.