OUR FAVORITE SETTINGS

SMALL TOWNS
    --everyone knows everyone
    --if an event happens, everyone knows it
    --town gossip
    --town drunk

HOGWARTS CASTLE
    --Diagon Alley with shops and wizard clothing, products
    --Familiar--school-like setting, returning after summer, stern teachers
    --Different--witches, wizards, odd clothing, strange courses, monsters, moving staircases
    --NEW WORLD--we investigate the castle WITH the characters, every year we learn
       new things about it
    --Common rooms--students gathering in houses (mysterious paintings/passwords)
    --Quidditch

THE GIVER
     --Everything is the same
     --Scary,  Dystopian, but compelling
     --Big Brother--type setting
     --Future

THE SECRET HISTORY--college campus
     --Intense snowstorms
     --Isolaton
     --Ivy-covered stone walls--academic setting
     --Aura of mystery, suspense

DIVERGENT
--Factions in various  parts of CHICAGO
--Characters must belong to one or another
--Factions reveal description, allow reader to know characters
--We are drawn in by finding our PLACE in the setting
--in FUTURE

THE LION, THE WITCH, and THE WARDROBE

--Fantasy
--Escape
--Child goes through wardrobe into another world
--Time stops in real world so no one realizes someone was gone.