Setting

1. Place: the geographical location of the story- a country or a city, a large city or a small village, indoors or outdoors, both.
Ans: The story takes place in California . It is not a large city. It is some kind of a neighborhood that rather small. This neighborhood contains mines which tells me that it is not a city.
2. Time: the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the even of the story occur.
Ans: The period of time that this story occur is somewhat in the past. It happens long ago. According to the story, the season right now in the story is dry.
3. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lover,middle, or upper class).
Ans: They are all in middle class. They are not rich and lives in cottages. The charaters are not that highly educated which is one factor that tell me that they are in middle class or rather a low class.