Always ask where you are going because you never know where it may take you or what you will need to go there. Authors who create their own mystic settings know those lands so well because great thought had to go into creating each little detail. As a reader you have to think about why did the author pick this setting and is their a hidden meaning. Harsh geography equals tough people to defeat since they have to be tough to live their. In poetry and fiction it may be people inhabiting spaces and the same time the spaces are inhabiting the humans. The geography can define and develop a character even like a rebirth of the person. Tunnels in a landscape can turn the land into enemies, but will the animals of such landscape turn menacing. Specific plot role in a literacy work need to dig deep into their subconscious delving into the region of darkest fears. The geography can discover darkness within or shatter romantic dreams during the first experience of the land. An authors reason for sending a character south is usually so the can run amok. Heaney the poet uses geography to get an in-depth knowledge of his poems and see where he is coming from . A low land can be swamps, fogs , and heat meaning its dirty un clean and inhabitable. A high place like mountains snow and ice give sense of purity to the untouched , but on the downside the thin air can mean death in such purity. An alpine environment is clean , un clustered almost inhuman.
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