Question

Choose one literary selection from this semester in which you think the setting has a great impact

on the work. In a full paragraph, name the work, describe the setting, and explain why it is so
important to the overall story or poem.

Answer 1

for connections semester exam :)

My favorite book we read this semester was The Swimming Contest by Benjamin Tammuz. The Swimming Contest is a short story set in the summer home of an Arabian woman in the Orange Groves. The narrator loses a swimming race at the gove to an Arabian boy, but promises to beat him when he grows up. The story in this case takes place during a period of conflict between Arabs and Jews. This setting was critical to the plot of the story and served as its foundation.