Setting as Character

Though not particularly common, setting can act as a character. The most common way for it to act so is by acting like an opposing force directly. The author would have to add constant details of the setting instead of simply telling how the character( not the setting) fought against it. There is also another way of expressing the setting as a character, and that would be simply writting it as if it was a real character. The story can be simply a discription of the place, like where we are. Our holt reader had an excellent example( I forgot the story title) of a story that described what during the year of 2060 will be like. Throughout the whole story, ther wasn't a single living character. Just the setting, speaking it's own story. The house, the clock, the stove...those normal settings and objects were now acting alive. Telling us that a house can function without a person/family and how. I think that the story was pretty interesting, which simply proved that settings can be characters too, whom can create fascinating stories. Using Setting as a character gives readers a fresh and detailed image of the story, but you have to be good at it to not put the readers to sleep.