Spatial Context

Akiva and Berthe are placed in a strange world. First , the text mentions two full moons (I Chapter) . The text describes a flowered place too. In Chapter II we are situated near the temple ( we guess they are in a village or something like that ) .

In Chapter VI the text gives us an information: ‘ When Berthe came to live in the western foothills ’ , where she got married with Glukish.

Another different place where they appear is ( in Chapter XIII) when they cross the Red River into the Middle Plains.

Efirr Nije and Paula Maxwell. They are placed first in the Clark’s laboratory, but then we find expressions like : ‘ On Clark’s home planet ‘ … which indicate us they are in a fiction time, so we can’t be situated in any real or actual place.

In Chapter V, Sara Peyton sets the action in a flowered place, and then, the text talks us about a crowded street.(In this chapter appears Clark like a main character, more than in chapter III, then Clark becomes a main character in the rest of the book).

Luz and Fuego are described in a bar, while she’s studying and he is sweeping. We don’t know a lot about the spacial context in this case.

In Chapter IX Luz, Fuego , Paula and Clark are placed in a river. In this Chapter, the two moons are mentioned again( like in Chapter I with Akiva and Berthe), so we guess the stories are related. In this part they become a group in the rest of the book, and they will appear together.

These are some examples of the spatial context, but in all the chapters Sara Peyton places the characters in different situations and atmospheres. Akiva and Berthe , who appear together at the beginning , then are separated from each other, and in the lasts chapters they are together again. So, the atmospheres in which both of them are set , change in the story.

On the other hand, we find Paula, Clark, Luz and Fuego, who are always together in the book.

In my opinion, the spatial context in ’Fields of Night’ is very subjective because Sara Peyton imagines what she has described in the book, but there’s no a big description in each atmosphere. The work is set in a fantastic world which is plenty of fiction. In some cases , she describes the sky, or the place ( mountains, flowers …) and in other cases she makes concrete a place : The Red River …

In a first moment, we could think that the stories are different ( so the places would be different too) but then we realise that all the stories are related.