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Theme Of Setting In Tangerine

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The setting in Tangerine is Tangerine County. I claim that setting drives the plot. Think of it like this: if there is no setting there is no story. Keep in mind that there will always be a setting in a story. The reason being is that a setting is a place and there is never no place. If there is a white blank place (aka “no place”) it is still a place. The evidence that makes the setting very interesting is the constant lightning strikes. The lightning strikes is what killed Mike Costello. That isn 't very big in the plot, but what is, is that because of Mike Costello’s death, it opened Erik’s dark side. What I 'm saying is that in the story Tangerine Paul hears Erik laughing about Mike’s death. Also, if it wasn 't because of the

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