Question

What is the relevance of context in a short story?

Context cannot help you understand the character motivations and values.
Context can help you understand the character motivations and values.
Context is an author's direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like.
Context is made up of the details used by the author to convey experiences.

Answer 1

Context is an author's direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like.

i am not sure of this answer so it maybe wrong

Answer 2

The correct answer is B. Context can help you understand the character motivations and values.

Step-by-step explanation:

In literary works such as novels, poems or short stories, the contexts refers to the background of a story or the background in which the story was written, this includes the social context such as the social class of characters, the historical context or the period in history during which events occur, the political context and any other condition or event such as the place or geographical context of a story. All these elements are relevant because they influence different aspects in a story such as the main conflict, the theme and the motivations and values of the characters. This means, for readers the context in a short story is relevant because through this the reader can understand the character motivations and values, besides many other important elements.