2. How Does Jasper’s Wildfire-Ravaged Setting Shape the Story?

[smkelly]

How does the wildfire-ravaged town of Jasper shape the atmosphere of the story? How does the setting contribute to the sense of isolation and corruption depicted in the novel?

[Deanei]

I suppose for me the shocking act of trapping a person in a shed during a wildfire was deeply disturbing but was almost as if the total raising of the landscape due to bushfire cleared the air to speak and raised questions of long held corruption ithin the police force to was blasted open -was an amazing tale -good read