Preferred+WL+topics

**SLHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Preferred World Lit Paper Topics **

Nudity in Perfume and Sailor acting as a way to detach from one's former self into helping the male characters realize their goals and ambitions. || Sailor and Perfume Food parallels the level of materialistic desires that the protagonist experiences through their journey || Siddhartha and Sailor The importance of water in Sid and Ryuji's lives. Water transforms them into something that is beyond what they actually are || The women’s (Kamala & Fusako) influence upon the lives of Ryuji and Siddhartha; the struggle between land & sea for Ryuji and the normal average day life & the monk's life of enlightenment for Siddhartha. || //**Siddhartha & Perfume **// The parallel journeys of Grenouille and Siddhartha upon the search for self-worth and self-realisation. à  Both had a chance to be wealthy and financially successful but did not pursue career and both detached from ordinary human life to escape and find 'enlightenment'. || **//Sailor & Perfume //** The absence of love from parents during the childhood years of Grenouille and The Chief facilitated the acts of murder that they perpetrated. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"> Objects in motion and how they portray characters' //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-style: normal;">attitude/state of mind. –Siddhartha (arrow, potter’s wheel, star) and Ryuji (waves, tides, ships) // || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Perfume and Sailor: ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">//<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-style: normal;">Consummate female figures and how they contribute to Grenouille and Noboru’s views of beauty and perfection. // || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Perfume and Siddhartha //** <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">//<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Significance of vivid and ambiguous endings. // || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The role of religion as a mean to glorify the main characters (Grenouille & Siddhartha) at certain points in the novel. || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Perfume & Sailor ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The role of "older ideas" in each novel (in Perfume, pre-enlightenment ideas, in Sailor, traditional Japanese culture). || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sailor & Siddhartha ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Emotional uncertainty when searching for one's true belief (Nihilism for Noboru and the "right path" for Siddhartha) || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Siddhartha and Grenouille's isolation from society as a way of discovering/rediscovering themselves. || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Siddhartha and Perfume ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Siddhartha and Grenouille's detachment from their selves as a way of escaping reality and experiencing life's true passion. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Sailor and Perfume <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Similarity of motives behind Grenouille's and the boy's murdering of innocent lives || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The contradictory mindsets of Grenouille and Noboru fuel emotions of discontent and disappointment at the end of the novels. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume & Siddhartha <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The comparison between the isolation of Grenouille and the transition of Siddhartha traveling with Govinda to Siddhartha traveling on his own. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Sailor & Perfume <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Setting surrounding Noboru and Siddhartha influencing their thoughts and actions || <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">a comparison between similar events that occur in Noboru's and Grenouille's life during the duration of the novel (Grenouille visits the perfume shop parallels Noboru visiting the ship) and how they contribute to the overall development of their respective characters || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Sailor and Siddhartha <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The opposite views with which Siddhartha and Noboru perceive the world in terms of the how one’s life should be lived. (Siddhartha lives indulgingly and centers on pleasure, Noboru sees total indifference and nihilism to be the correct way) || <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Siddhartha and Perfume <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">the extent to which both novels can be considered heroes' journeys, whether they consist of the usual components that make up the story about one person’s journey (mentor, heroes life and death, what he learned or achieved, presence of a goal) || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The change in characters as the animals used to describe them change. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume and Sailor <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Noboru and Grenouillle's concealing of their inner emotions as hope to persist in their ambitions. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume and Siddhartha <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The effect of Grenouille and Siddhartha's different understanding of death. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Immoral actions of Grenouille and Noboru allowing them to achieve self-satisfaction in the novels, Perfume by Patrick Suskind and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Sailor & Siddhartha <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The significance of water in each novel and how it affects the main characters (rivers in Sid, oceans and the sea in Sailor) || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Siddhartha & Perfume <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The absence of a "home" in both Grenouille's and Siddhartha's journeys and the way it affects them emotionally. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The cyclic journey of Grenouille and Siddhartha portrayed through the clothing they wear. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Sailor and Siddhartha: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The inner conflict of characters portrayed through animal metaphors. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume and Sailor: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The effectiveness of the insincere praise of Grenouille and the Chief to persuade others for their own good ||
 * || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">First Choice ** || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Second Choice ** || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Third Choice ** ||
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Chris Hwa ** || The characterization that the protagonists are a unstoppable force and will ultimately be victorious and achieve their goals in the end of the novel in __Perfume: The Story of a Murderer__ by Patrick Suskind, and __Siddhartha__ by Herman Hesse . || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"> The concept of how wisdom and true geniuses arrive through walking unconventional and non-traditional paths in __Perfume: The Story of a Murderer__ by Patrick Suskind, and __Siddhartha__ by Herman Hesse . || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"> The significance how mentors and teachers are tools for the protagonist’s personal gain and accomplishment for in __Perfume: The Story of a Murderer__ by Patrick Suskind, and __Siddhartha__ by Herman Hesse .  ||
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">He Ra ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The death of female characters in helping protagonists achieve their final goals in Sailor and Siddhartha(death of Laure allows Grenouille to make the best perfume in the world/death of Kamala allows Siddhartha time to reflect on his life and find the true peace || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Change in individuals' mentality after falling in love in Sailor and Siddhartha (Change in Fusako as she gets together with Ryuji/Change in Siddhartha as he gets together with Kamala) || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The effect of changing weather/climate on establishing the mood in Perfume and Sailor ||
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Henry ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume and Sailor
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Janita ** || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">//**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Siddhartha & Sailor **//
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Jerry ** || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Siddhartha and Sailor: **
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Jocelyn ** || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Perfume & Siddhartha **
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">John ** || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Siddhartha and Perfume **
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Maryanne ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume & Sailor
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Michael R ** || <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume and Sailor
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Michael X ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Siddhartha and Perfume
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Oliver ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume & Sailor
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Riowena ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Investigation of the use of settings as a signal of turning points within //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sailor // and //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Siddhartha //: empty desolate settings used in //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sailor // (to reflect turning points in relationships between characters) whereas human-free nature settings used in //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Siddhartha // (to signify turning points in Siddhartha’s life, or his relationship with himself). || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Irony of the appreciation of beauty in death in //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Perfume // and //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sailor // in reflecting character personalities: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Perfume // = the cold-bloodedness of Grenouille and the onlookers, //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sailor // = nihilistic but sea-loving attitudes of Noboru. (Death is used to create beauty or death creates beauty) || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The uses of bodies of water in //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sailor // and //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Siddhartha // in guiding the ultimate goals of Ryuji and Siddhartha: the sea in reflecting glory vs. the river as a mentor in guiding towards the Self. ||
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Robert ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume and Siddhartha:
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Shavonne ** || =====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: auto 0cm;">**Sailor and Siddhartha:** =====

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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">In Yukio Mishima’s //The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea// and Hermann Hesse’s //Siddhartha//, the power depicted in Fusako and Kamala in their relationships with Ryuji and Siddhartha characterizes their position of dominance in each relationship. =====

|| =====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: auto 0cm;">**Perfume and Sailor:** ===== <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Noboru and Grenouille’s unique capabilities in obtaining information, Grenouille with his sense of smell, and Noboru’s secret hole in the wall || =====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: auto 0cm;">**Perfume and Siddhartha:** =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**Grenouille and Siddhartha’s lack of a permanent home, characterizing their decisions in their journey.** ===== || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Compare and contrast the role of mentors in Sailor and Siddhartha and how they influence the characters' choice or decision. || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sailor and Siddhartha ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The sacrifices that characters have to make in order to achieve a goal.
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Valerie ** || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sailor and Siddhartha **

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Ryuji (his dreams / glory of being a sailor to settle with the Kuroda family) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Siddhartha (giving up his status as the Brahmin's son to find his path) || <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Perfume and Sailor **

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Comparing the animal references/symbols used in the novel and their contribution towards character development. ||
 * <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Wendy ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume and Sailor:

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Grenouille and Noboru's indifference in murder shown through the preparation and process of killing, as well as the very mechanic and emotionless descriptions of the corpse || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Perfume and Sailor:

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The society's false views on Noboru and Grenouille due to their deceptive appearances (Noboru looks like an innocent kid but is actually dangerous, Grenouille looks like a powerless person but has great hidden talent.) || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">Sailor and Siddhartha:

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">The atmosphere of discontent in the opening scenes. ||