Book: Lockwood & Co.
Description of Assignment: Setting
Assignment: Compare three settings in the novel to three modern day settings and demonstrate how they have affected different characters.
Book: Lockwood & Co The Hollow Boy.
Settings in the novel: London streets, Office, Archives
| Settings in the novel | How this has affected the plot and characters |
| London streets | London Streets |
| · Covered with ghost lamps, running water, lavender and different defenses.
· No non-agent ever goes outdoors at night, locations related to dead people are abandoned and unvisited. · The only vehicles at night are night cabs. · Night watch kids are employed. |
· The society activities are suddenly changed by the addition of ghosts.
· Main characters are the only people outdoors at night. · Residents of London are really affected by ghosts. · Kids don’t go to school, they join psychic companies. |
| Settings in the novel | How this has affected the plot and characters |
| Office | Office |
| · Iron and silver defenses.
· Doubling as the home of the characters. · Customers ask for assistance about ghosts. · Jobs pose risk of death. · DEPRAC is the higher up of these psychic companies. |
· Adults employ kids to help solve psychic problems but the characters run their company by them selves.
· The office drives the plot by helping establishing a company. |
| Settings in the novel | How this has affected the plot and characters |
| Archive | Archive |
| · The archive keeps data of all the events happening in the past.
· A record of all articles could be found in the archives. · The archives in in a complex building and are sometimes hard to find information. |
· The characters seem to always be able to find important information to drive the plot.
· Many psychic agencies research in the archives before a case. · All characters with some importance has been to the archives. |
