The Effects of Setting

Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.

The effects of the setting give characteristics to the people in the book. They show how the people react to such surroundings. Everyone is different so most people wouldn't take things the same as their neighbor, so to say, would. The description that Jim is giving of the surrounding really puts the image in your mind as if you were there. You can see things from Jim's perspective in a positive way because that is how he describes it to the reader.
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As I lie on my back on the soft, cool ground, I look at the stars in the night sky. I intake every commotion around me, such as the crickets chirping hidden in the grass. The trees whisper to me when the wind blows a nice, gentle breeze. The stars above flicker and twinkle as they catch my eye. In my periphery, I see a light shoot across the sky. I close my eyes and wish to myself. Thoughts escape my mind in peace, relieved they are finally free.