Analysis of Chocolat

Analysis of Chocolat In this extract from Chocolat by Joanne Harris, a mother and her young daughter, Anouk, have just arrived at Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, a teensy-weensy village in France. The story is told from the mothers point of invite in the first person. besides at the end of the scene when a man asks On holiday, Madame? we discover that the cashier is a woman. It is carnival time. The narrator bring outs the excitement of the participants using the senses. For example, the atmosphere is full of smells of foods which sound re all(prenominal)y unspoiled pancakes and sausages and powdery-sweet waffles contrast with the cold of the winter.In the same way, the woman appeals to the sense of sight to describe the embellish carts which remind to some fairy tales for instance, a gingerbread house all icing and gilded cardboard calls to mind Hansel and Gretel. Then, she compares the carnival with others that both she and her daughter have seen. A procession of cardinal hundr ed and fifty of the decorated chars in Paris last Mardi Gras, a hundred and eighty in New York, drum majorettes with batons spinning and sparkling tells us that the carnival itself is something distinctive of their lives.In this case, it can represent the new beginning in the new town. It to a fault means that they have travelled a lot. Moreover, when Anouk asks her mother Are we staying? we check that the child likes so much the new village that she wants to stay there. In contrast with the carts of the carnival, which are rubricful and expressive, the houses of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes leaning secretively together. Only people have secrets, not the houses, so the spring uses a fable to suggest something sinister about the place and probably to stimulate the touch on of the readers.The small village expects apparently perfect. There is no police range at Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, therefore no crime means that people telephone that there are no crimes, but this does not convin ce the woman. barely for now everything is blurred. There is also a strong bearing of the church and of the religion in general. For example, the church is described as acutely whitewashed similarly, the priest is seen as a black figure who is compared to the chevy Doctor.The priest is also described with a rigid stance and lookout man eyes which confirms the idea of an unfriendly person. All the other residents are characterized in two different ways. On the one hand, there are the adults, who look suspiciously and with curiosity to the two protagonists. As the text says, tourists are a rarity. The sentence I feel their eyes upon us emphasizes the accompaniment that the woman and her daughter are observed. On the other hand, the children transmit colour and vitality.For instance, the clothing of the adults are brown, black or grey the children, instead, flying color of red and lime-green and yellow, seem like a different race. The author uses a lot of adjectives, which add ma ny details to the descriptions. For example, when the woman dialogue about her daughter, she says her eyes, which are the blue-green of the Earth seen from a great height, shiny. This also helps us to understand the close relationship between the two characters.