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[...] Her body freezes in fact due to her terror page 275, she is troubled and taken by terror until the halting present on page 282. From pages 280 to 281, the author does not hesitate to insist on this feeling through the expression 'she was very afraid'. Thus, we have been able to grasp through this excerpt a part of the destiny and life of the character of Khaby, which is sown with obstacles and does not cease to evolve in a picturesque environment borrowed from dangers and challenges of which the figure of the crow is a true incarnation. [...]
[...] Firstly, we can see that particular importance is given to the sense of sight throughout the extract. From page 274, we can see that the extract begins in a rather particular setting, which the character does not recognize, and which is composed of "crumbling facades" or "collapsed balconies", giving a somewhat destructive appearance to the setting of this beginning of the journey. Visual references continue: page 282 gives us a glimpse of calm, worried, even fragile faces; or page 278, a deep darkness. [...]
[...] But it is especially page 179 that solicits this sense. Indeed, this passage informs us very well about the atmosphere in which the character finds herself, through a rustling of tissues, flip-flops on the sand, dogs howling, accentuated breathing, suggesting the end of silence and the beginning of imprudence. Thus, we grasp through the use of these senses to describe the setting in which the character evolves that it is particularly difficult and gives a very laborious dimension to the journey undertaken. [...]
[...] From page 274, Khady refers to this animal, which she seems to associate with her tormentor. On page 276, he is described as having black eyes, very round and "very shiny", giving him physical characteristics of the animal that do not stop there: the verb "to croak" is directly announced on page 277, the man's speech resembling a "throat clearing grating" embodying the cry of this bird. Although he seems invisible, no crow being physically present in the text, he represents an enemy. [...]
[...] But this is not the only criterion. 2 - A dehumanizing journey Indeed, we can see that on numerous occasions the author engages in behaviors and situations that are totally dehumanizing for the characters, who are often likened to animal behavior and traversed by difficult physical and moral pain. Page 275 is quite evocative in this regard: indeed, it is here a question of bodies compared to ravaged animals, the character bursting into a setting where "featureless faces, neither woman nor man" are present. [...]
