got three settinng: time, place, social

1. QWERTYUIOP
setting
Group 5:
1. SYAZWANI
2. NURALIAH IZZATI
3. AMIRA A’ATIQAH

2. SETTING TIME
PLACE
SOCIAL

3. PLACE SETTING
• Belmont Secretarial College
 The place where Lucy gets her diploma.
 Mrs. Price gives advices to her departing students
(page 9)
• Ross and Bannister’s
 A small firm with a factory outside the town.
 Lucy goes to an interview conducted by Mr. Ross and
is offered a job (page 10)
• The office
 Lucy’s workplace.
 Lucy encounters Miss Broome while typing a letter
(page 16

4. PLACE SETTING
• Lucy’s house
The kitchen.
Lucy tells her mother about the job she gets
(page 11)
Lucy has a conversation with Uncle Bert during
supper (page 26)
• Cemetery
Lucy visits Mr. Bannister’s grave.
She tells Miss Broome that she left some flowers
on her grave (page 28)

5. SOCIAL SETTING
• Judgemental community members
– Harru Darke
• He adresses Lucy with different insulting names
• His words are mostly annoyances to Lucy
– Brooms,fly,frightened mouse
– “I’m used to electric typewriters” Lucy sai coldly.She was
beginning to be annoyed.
– The Principal of the Belmont Secretarial College
• She doubts of Lucy’s ability to get a job after her
studies.
– When she came to the last student, her confidence suddenly
evaporated. She looked at Lucy Beck and sighed.

6. SOCIAL SETTING
Loyal employees
 Harry Darke
- “I’m Harry Darke, thirty years with Ross and Bannister’s, retired
with a silver watch and now come back to haunt the place. Can’t
keep away, you see,” (pg. 12)
 Ms. Broome
-“This place was her home,
this job was all she lived for,”
(pg. 25)

7. • Competitive job seekers
– Lucy and the college graduates
“Trouble was that there were hundreds
after every vacancy, brighter than Lucy,”
(pg. 10)
Lower class community members
– Lucy’s family
• “She was tired of being poor,” (pg. 9)

8. TIME
Early 20th century.
• Office work was done on typewriters
and tapes were still in use.
• Computers were probably not in use
yet.
• “I’m used to electric typewriters.” (Lucy
Beck, p.14)

9.  On Monday
• Lucy Beck’s first day of working.
• She comes early in the morning. - …at
ten to nine, the door to this office was
shut and locked. (p.12)
• It shows her determination even though
people keeps looking down on her.
• Her first meeting with Harry Darke.

10. • In the evening, Mr. Ross is surprised because Lucy
managed to prepare the letter.
• “His eyes went to the corner of the desk where Lucy had
put the completed letter.” (Mr.Ross, p.22)
 On Tuesday
• “The next morning, Harry Darke raised his eyebrows
when he saw Lucy.” (p.23)
• Shows Lucy’s commitment towards her profession.

11. • Lucy knows about Miss Broome from
Harry Darke.
• “She was old Mr. Bannister’s secretary.
Been here forty-three years, girl, woman
and old misery…” (Harry Darke, p.25)
• At night, the conversation between Lucy
and Uncle Bert takes place. Lucy reaches
a new understanding with her uncle.
(p.26 & 28)

12.  On Wednesday
• The final battle between Lucy and Miss
Broome.
• Lucy managed to get rid of the spirit.
• “She folded the finished letter into a paper
dart and sent it sailing out of the window. The
wind caught it and carried it away.” (p.30)

13. THANK YOU