examining the relationship bewtween human behavior and etc;

Woodrow Rowell

Instructor - Stacey Cutbush

English 1500

July 22 , 2007 The way a person behaves or how he makes decisions is influenced by many factors . Some of them are the influence of the environment , the timing and owns knowledge about the world . The three stories that I chose namely , A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , and Harrison Bergeron , have many different and some similar points about the issue of the human behavior as affected by the social factors

If we analyze

the first stated story , we may conclude that its setting must have been somewhere near a sea , maybe long miles from the town proper . The technology is not much advanced , that 's why it may had happened or the author gets inspiration for the time from a period long ago , maybe a little earlier than the Contemporary Period . The second story or much appropriate to be called as poem , the I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , has a different style of creating its setting . The themes and actions mostly happen or shift from the outside to the inside of the cage . The time is really arbitrary , that is , we can assume any since it is applicable . On the other hand , the third story has a very clear statement about when and where did actions take place . It is implicitly stated in the story that it happens in the year 2081 , and actions take place in the United States , on the house of the Bergeron in particular

Through analysis of the setting only , we cannot readily conclude about how will characters react unless we are sure that the story is fiction or non-fiction , or that is it a lot more related to reality or is it much maid out of the very imaginative creations of their author ? Truly the reality or the fantasy content of the three stories somehow made distinctions amongst them . This simply means that they have different degree of the reality content or the reality-related information given by the author . The first story talks very much about the angel , which is not that realistic if we 're consulting the scientific community . Another thing that adds to the fantastic feature of the story is the spider woman , who became spider because of the strike of lightning . That makes it a lot more related to fantasy than the reality . The poem that talks about the bird is certainly realistic , there are many uses of figurative languages but that also are realistic . The third story is the one that is difficult to categorize . The setting , as said earlier , is 2081 , and we are not certain if that might happen on that year . The author claims many hypothetical statements which I think is not just from his imagination , I think they are intelligent guess of what might happen in the years following the present

The setting and the reality of the stories would somehow predict the behavior of characters in the story...