The Path of Emotions in the Michèle Marineau’s Novel "Road to Chlifa"

Abstract

The Path of Emotions in the Michèle Marineau’s Novel Road to Chlifa

“ The Path of Emotions ” is an allusion to the title of the novel: it concerns the journey made by three children from Beyrouth to Chlifa, the village located on the opposite side of the Mount Lebanon, during the war of Lebanon in 1989. The reason of their crossing the mountain is to avoid the capital and the danger of bombardment which already made a lot of victims, among them the whole family of Maha, a twelve-year-old girl, who has to take care of his little brother Jad because of it. The main character is Karim, a sixteen-year-old boy, who, after this crucial crossing of the mountain, finds himself in Quebec where his parents have already emigrated. The positive and negative emotions experienced by the children are provoked by the situations of crisis: facing the war and the emigration. 

Key words: Lebanon, Quebec, war, emigration, adjustment