The books "Chocolat" by Joanne Harris and "The Murder at the Vicarage" by Agatha Christie are full of religious encounters. Some encounters are similar and some are different. For instance, the settings of both are very much influenced by religion as in they both partly take place in a religious facility. Also, the character's personalities are similar in that main characters in both stories are religious figures. Also the plots, even though the story lines are nowhere near similar, are both influenced by religious factors. In my opinion, the church is best represented in the book "Chocolat". That is how the stories "Chocolat" by Joanne Harris and "The Murder at the Vicarage" by Agatha Christie are influenced in a religious aspect.
             The first way that the stories are influenced by religion is the setting. At first glance the story "The Murder at the Vicarage" is obviously in a religious environment. A Vicarage is a house of a vicar, with a vicar being a member of the clergy who exercises a broad pastoral responsibility as the representative of a prelate according to Webster's online dictionary. Almost the entire book takes place inside the vicarage, which is huge with a large garden. Also the setting of "Chocolat" is very religious. A similarity that both settings have would be that they both take place in the small, very religious towns of Lansquenet in "Chocolat" and St. Mary Mead in "The Murder at the Vicarage", both being isolated in the countryside. One example that Lansquenet is a religious place, is that the church is located in the center of the town square, a quote of this is found on page 2 of "Chocolat", "A church, aggressively whitewashed, in a square of little shops". Also it is evident that the town is religious by the actions of its inhabitants, those who are not regular churchgoers ar...