French

Activity 1

What is the purpose of this extract?
Identify the main tense and comment on why it is used in this extract.
How is the sense of isolation portrayed in this extract?
What does the storyteller/narrator think about this village? Justify your answer with reference to the text.
How is the issue of The outsider versus social order portrayed in this extract and in the novel as a whole?

Activity 2

You are a relative of one of the Bastidiens who lives in the village, and you have come to visit him/her for several weeks.

In your diary you write approximately 200 words about your impressions of the village and the inhabitants.