Assignment: Pg. 114; "A Writing Exercise"

A Writing Exercise: To become more aware of how settings may function in a short story, write a description of a setting you associate with someone you know. Choose are particular room, building, or landscape in which you have seen that person. In your description, use details of the setting to reveal something about his or her life.

In this place, there is a lot of commotion. It is a very colorful place. There is a main building that leads to a large setting of picnic tables outside where many different kinds of people of all ages congregate showing off gear, accomplishments, and equipment. The picnic tables are under a canopy of concrete, causing a strong wind to run through the place. The tables are simple, made out of wood. There is nothing fancy about the tables. But, what is rest on top of the tables is what the place is about. The picnic tables are not what is important about this place. What is important are the many different sorts of fields you see when you look out over everything. They are massive, stretching far, filled with trodden on grass. In the fields, there are barrels, obstacles, barricades, shields, or trees, all coated with old and new colors. The items in the fields are scattered around, usually making some sort of pattern. The commotion comes from these fields. It is filled with loud noises, many of them being yelling voices of directions and help. There is also a forest, thick with trees, and also many forts and tall wooden walls with peek holes. There is a a strength in the air around here, everyone having a purpose and meaning. There is also pain. Injuries are no uncommon in this place, especially in one of the many fields. When the wind blows, it affects the place. Knowing how to work around the wind is a skill needed to be here. When the day is over, everyone heads back to the rough parking lot, a lot of it in the grass as well. It is quite large, fitting many cars. It is nice, though; well kept.

Many memories come from this place. This is a very important place for my best friend. He Paintballs. This was a description of the Paintball field he goes to. The feeling of the place represents his personality, as well as the fact that he plays the sport.