Analysis of An Area of Darkness
Are the envisionments of your dreams bright? In An Area of Darkness by V.S. Naipaul, the writer, describes two different areas. He first describes Kashmir, saying ‘Kashmir was coolness and colour’ which took me by surprise in that he detailed a place as colour itself. This was further incorporated into the writing saying that Kashmir had ‘yellow mustard fields’ and ‘milky blue sky’ with vague descriptions of the place including the colour; this gave me the impression that the writer was envisioning or maybe literally seeing Kashmir from a distance. The mood given of a calm and placid mountainous region seen from afar, a bright place in a bright mindset. This envisionment, literal or not, is soon broken in the writing of the second paragraph which begins by describing the sightings again, but in more of a proximal bias. Discussing the smells of ‘charcoal, tobacco, cooking oil’ and ‘human excrement’. The lexical choice is mostly urban and dense sme...