Essays Tagged: "Anouk"

The Parrallels of Chocolat and Somethings That Stay.

e Tamara's dad was a painter and moved around to find a new landscape to paint and sell. Vianne and Anouk moved around because of the need to when the wind blew like her mother did. The father is not ... e need to when the wind blew like her mother did. The father is not present or a part in the movie, Anouk is still young and takes care of herself, and is still able to keep her youth and not take car ...

(4 pages) 29 1 2.6 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Chocolat

's character to a more advanced degree. In the extract, we first encounter Vianne with her daughter Anouk as they brave the harsh wind and settle into the new village. "We came on the wind of the carn ... , a rather unusual one for February. To some extent, the wind presents the characters of Vianne and Anouk as they are independent and wild, the same as the wind that brought in the carnival. Reminisce ...

(3 pages) 45 1 4.3 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Texts across time have portrayed women in terms of a dichotomy between "good" and "bad", but to what extent are the composers of the texts you have studied ambivalent towards their female characters?

herself from mental attacks. Similarly, in Chocolat, Vianne Rocher, with her illegitimate daughter Anouk, is shunned by the virtuous members of the community, who dislike her nomadic habits. The nove ... fleeing the "Black Man", a manifestation of those who pursue her and, she believes, wish to remove Anouk from her. The near obsession with which Vianne beholds Anouk is also partly due to an episode ...

(8 pages) 22 0 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Discuss the extent to which Vianne Rocher and Francis Reynaud are outsiders in the novel "Chocolat" written by Joanne Harris

Vianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk had moved from America (New York) to a French village called Lansquenet-sous-Tannes; Vianne Ro ... ew York) to a French village called Lansquenet-sous-Tannes; Vianne Rochers moves with her daughter (Anouk) into a disused bakery opposite the village's church and turns the disused backery into a choc ... to start a new life from New York..." (Chapter:1, page:11) ,and she also has to remind her daughter Anouk to speak French "I have to remind her to speak French..."(page:12) which immediately tells you ...

(3 pages) 25 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"Chocolate" - Compare the book to the movie

hey unfold.The novel and the film describe the stranger Vianne Rocher and her six year old daughter Anouk arrival in the village of Lansquent with the north wind on Shrove Tuesday. Tired of wandering, ... ith the north wind on Shrove Tuesday. Tired of wandering, Anouk begs her mother to stay. Vianne and Anouk move into a shop across the road from the church and open a chocolate shop. Vianne is a single ...

(5 pages) 27 0 4.7 Oct/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Gender Roles in Chocolat and The Hunger Games

oman sticking to her ancestry and living a semi-nomadic life with her daughter born out of wedlock, Anouk. As Vianne arrives in a small French village, she finds a very old fashioned populace, anxious ... ayor, Reynaud. Vianne is immediately rejected as she embraces her denial of a husband or father for Anouk. Vianne is a very nurturing and protective mother, and she is comfortable in her familial stat ...

(8 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study