Question

Read the passage and identify the setting of the narrative. How did you identify the setting? Explain the concept of 'setting' of a story or a play.
"There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad
that it had forgotten its name. It stood by a mournful sea full of glumfish, which were so
miserable to eat that they made people belch with melancholy even though the skies were blue.
In the north of the sad city stood mighty factories in which (so I’m told) sadness was actually
manufactured, packaged and sent all over the world, which never seemed to get enough of it.
Black smoke poured out of the chimneys of the sadness factories and hung over the city like bad news.
And in the depths of the city, beyond an old zone of ruined buildings that looked like broken
hearts, there lived a happy young fellow by the name of Haroun, the only child of the storyteller
Rashid Khalifa, whose cheerfulness was famous throughout that unhappy metropolis, and whose
never-ending stream of tall, short and winding tales had earned him not one but two nicknames. To his admirers he was Rashid the Ocean of Notions, as stuffed with cheery stories as the sea was
full of glumfish; but to his jealous rivals he was the Shah of Blah. To his wife, Soraya, Rashid was for many years as loving a husband as anyone could wish for, and during these years Haroun grew up in a home in which, instead of misery and frowns, he had his father’s ready laughter and his mother’s sweet voice raised in song.​

Answer 1

Answer:

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