Plot setting is a crucial aspect of any novel. It delivers to the audience the atmosphere which the novel itself is taking place. In both Deliverance and Invisible Man setting illustrates to the reader where the novel is happening, what time frame the novel is placed in, etc., it also serves the protagonist in the novel as well. What the setting accomplishes in both of these novels is it acts as a catalyst in helping the protagonist come to a realization of self. Deliverance and Invisible Man create a different psychosis in the protagonist's character through their use of setting. Dickey's Deliverance and Ellison's Invisible Man through their use of setting, force their protagonists to come to a realization of self-awareness.

In Deliverance, Dickey illustrates how man, removed from "civilized" society, reverts back to his primitive instinct. Man, in this primitive state, becomes the most dangerous creature that roams the earth. His ability to reason becomes utilized only on the aspects of survival; laws cease to exist and man justifies and acts out any action that ensures his survival. He shows that it is not nature one should fear b

This quote illustrates that it is Ed's second chance to prove himself to himself. Sometimes a boy just becomes a man without even realizing it, Ed want to realize and believes that tackling the river is a way of achieving a wholeness in his life. Ed from this point creates a bond with his surroundings. Illustrated in his passages where he feels the water around him (67) or when he sleeps for the first night and becomes aquatinted with the nature around him (77). These scenes illustrated what Ed had envisioned that the type of change he wanted to acquire was more of an understanding than a true change of self. His true transformation comes at the climax of the novel where the canoe trip becomes a race for survival.

What a group of people we were, I though.

The unbelievable violence and brutality of

ain't necessarily good," he said. "But these

in his chest that showed an arrow through him

from behind, come from anywhere (Dickey 149).

Dislike them was considered a mark of refinement

Not all of us, but so many. Simply by walking up

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