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Can any one explain me the meaning of the Genre, Setting, and The Plot of a story with examples.
Thanks for your always help.
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the genre is the type of story, is it a mystery, a semi-autobiographical novel, a realistic urban drama, or an outlandish comedy.
setting is where it is set, the surroundings, the world it is about. Gangs in a housing project, a man growing up in modern India, ancient Norse soldiers adventuring in Turkey.
the plot is what happens. Not a prerequisite, especially for a novel!
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So, a police detective investigates (genre) a murder on a farm in rural Iceland (setting) where the detective investigates and he turns out to be the murderer (the plot)
that is my simplistic (non-literary) take on this. More literary types may have higher ideas!
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Thar - I think your "simplistic" explanation was, rather, simple. The very best thing an explanation can be!
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Nicely done, thar.
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Thar you are a whole bunch of cyclopaedia  . Thanks alot.
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Now, for next week's lesson on 'Mood', I would like you to read the first two chapiters, sorry, chapters, of thar's Murder on the Kárahnjúkar Express.
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so, you know my oeuvre!
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Yep, read all your whodunnits.
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and to illustrate the original question, you can change the genre, setting and plot and still have the same story!
eg, Mýrin, a story, book then film, of genre police noir, setting rural Iceland, plot family secrets and old crimes revealed
BUT it is not in English, so it gets remade for America:
genre - ok, still a murder thriller, but the mood is changed as slightlier happier endings needed, not so dark and noir as the original Icelandic
setting - Louisiana, not quite so dark, rainy and sunless!! Nor, despite some stereotypes, is the population geographically confined in the same way.
plot - this rests on the genetic database of all icelandic people which is unique to Iceland so cannot be transferred, so they have to change the plot around that. They also make the detective 20 years younger!
But, heck, call it a remake and you can claim it is from a best-selling book!
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I love Kormákur and his films, especially '101 Reykjavík', but I haven't seen Mýrin yet.
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well, save that treat until you are suitably depressed, time is going slowly, and don't want to be cheered up.
What is it about Nordic thriller writers at the moment - no-one will ever visit Denmark or Sweden again if they watch their TV or read any of the literature!
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Thar,
have you tried any sagnir ævintyr?
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You mean Lord of the Rings - the true story? Yeah, good stuff. I must admit to being a bit of a TV and film junkie, but this forum, and the people here, reminds me there is more literature out there and I should keep exploring!
(Hmm, where did that come from, I must go back to being flip and sarcastic!)
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(for "Dubai")
we must remember that "a" "lot" is NOT "alot."
"a lot" is not ONE word; "a lot" is TWO words. NOTE: to remember to put a space between the two, think of a "lot" as a space of land--then when you write the words, you will remember to put a space (of land) between the two words. A lot of people who own a lot of acres misspell these words a lot.
(now, not to confuse with the verb, "allot.")
if you are a non-native English-speaker, then you have a lot you can teach others about your native language.
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