Lesson 6 · Setting

Narrated by a horse, Black Beauty follows the animal’s life through different owners, homes, hardships, and acts of kindness or cruelty. Its settings range from peaceful country fields to harsh urban streets, helping reveal the treatment of animals in Victorian society.

• Viewpoint — an animal’s awareness of setting.
• Atmosphere — travelling from farm, to London, to countryside.
• Clicking clock to decide time (picture changes as time goes on): drawing a cross over the picture.
• Camera — long shot, middle shot, close up.
• Listing details, changing them to fit either good or bad atmospheres.