The Extraordinary Adventures Of Alfred Kropp Essay

In the novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, by Rick Yancey, there is a very complicated yet intriguing setting that changes numerous times. In the story, Alfred travels the world with an elderly man named Bennacio on the search for Mogart, an evil, bloodthirsty man who stole the ancient Excalibur. Although they travel the world, the most important setting in the story would be Knoxville Tennessee in the present day because of how different thing are in different areas of the world, and how many advancements we’ve made over time. The setting to this story, as mentioned earlier, is very complex, yet that complexity is extremely significant towards the plot line of the story, because if it were to change to an earlier time period, …show more content…
In addition, as written in the story, “I left in the mornings as if I was going to the bus stop, then cut through a side street to Broadway and walked all the way to the Old City, the historic section of downtown Knoxville. I hung out in the coffeehouses… Across the room sat a tall man with long snow-white hair. He ate very slowly, carving his steak into razor thin slices and chewing real slow. Every once in awhile he lifted his eyes towards me. He looked familiar, but I couldn’t remember where I had seen him from... ‘Who’re you?’ I asked ‘Call me Bennacio.’” Consequently, If this story hadn’t taken place in Knoxville, Tennessee, then Alfred would most likely not have met Bennacio in McCallister’s, so he would have never gotten to go travel the world with him if the setting wasn’t in Knoxville at that moment. Thus, the entirety of the story would have completely changed if Alfred hadn’t met Bennacio in that