Describing is always in some way interpreting reality and trying to explain it. The
description is therefore not reduced to the enumeration of details presented to the reader and
with which he must manage. It also presents impressions on these described data and often
conveys moral values, a vision of the world. The evocation of places and environments serves
to provide information on the world in which the characters evolve. Indeed, the places indicate
the framework to us, using existing proper names. The description represents a sort of mirror
of society. It is in this sense that this article aims at analyzing the descriptive sequences relating
to the experimental world with all its nominative supports in The Thorn of the Rose by Mathias
Kyelem, a Burkinabè author who knew how to use them well. To achieve this, he will take into
account the representations of reality, the proper names of places, people, things and calendars
through the descriptive semiotics of Jean Michel Adam and André Petitjean (1989).

description, society, school, semiotics