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1. What is the principle setting of Wool? In what time period does the story take place?

Wool is set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic dystopia. Although the author gives no indication of a year in which the story begins, it is evident that there has been a major disaster on “the outside,” as all of the living characters live within “the silo,” an underground bunker with several floors.

2. From what narrative point of view is the story related? Is the narrative told in the past, present, or future tense?

Wool is related from a third-person omniscient narrator who is not involved in the action of the story. It is related in the past tense. The narrator’s point of view allows the reader to see inside the mind of the protagonist, Holston, as well as other characters.

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