The setting of the book Trouble, by Gary D Schmidt, is a town called Blythbury-by-the-Sea. This town was supposedly built far away from trouble. “If you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” (Schmidt 6) says Henry’s father. In this town, there are only two policemen because nothing too bad has ever happened there. According to the background in the novel, Henry’s family had always run away from trouble. They have all lived in the same house for centuries but never looked in the face of trouble. This setting is significant to the novel because Blythbury-by-the-Sea is a town built so far away from trouble that the policemen don’t do anything on a daily basis. If this setting was removed from the novel
