The setting at the beginning of the story is a small town in Russia in the Pale of Settlement in the 1906, a time of frequent pogroms . How does this setting affect the plot

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The Pale of Settlement was a western locale of Imperial Russia with shifting fringes that existed from 1791 to 1917, in which perpetual residency by Jews was permitted and past which Jewish residency, changeless or temporary, was for the most part taboo.