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 After seeing the relationship the characters in Prodigal Summer had with their environment, I want to look at that distinction between the foreground of the story and the background. It seemed as thought the environment was almost a fourth protagonist in the novel, because each character's surroundings provided much of their emotional and physical stories. From Deanna's experience living in the woods with little human interactions to Lusa's new responsibility to the farm to Garnett's battles over his neighbor's farm.