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Animal references of g and nob || * Siddhartha and Ryuji/ Noboru both see the river, sea, body of water serve as a source of enlightenment. They have to experience everything in order to get to reach their final outcome. Both characters reach some form of "enlightenment"/ self realization Noboru and Grenouille's first visits to the location of their respective ambitions as hope of fulfilling their ambitions. Noboru and Grenouille's concealing of their inner selves as a means to persist in their goals. || * Killing in Sailor and loving in Siddhartha as methods to reach the ultimate goal to purge one from suffering and subjectivity. o Birds represent inner voice of Siddhartha o Crocodile represents the inner voice of Ryuji and Noboru · The character comparison of the distrust about the society between the Chief and Boys and Siddhartha ||  · The Main character's (Grenouille and Sidartha) achievement towards their goal portrayed through the clothing they wear · Cycle journey (too overused) · A comparison between the effects of the practice of seclusion (Grenouille in the mountains and Siddhartha in the forrests) on their individual journeys. ||
 * **name** || Perfume & Sailor || Sailor & Siddhartha || Siddhartha & Perfume ||
 * Chris || Rough Ideas...:
 * Fusako's clothing and the materials of her clothing demonstrates her identity, and character development; vs. Grenioulle's perfume collection??
 * Illusions (Fantasy) vs. Reality: The ocean in the Sailor and the beautiful scents in Perfume represent escape and personal enlightenment (Noboru's fantasizes love for the sea and follows his nihilistic beliefs although in reality he is just a regular boy. Grenioulle's passion to create the world's greatest perfume to escape the reality that he himself doesn't have one)
 * Both in P and S, the sea serve as a personal enlightenment (more in the sailor than in perfume though....)
 * The gruesome and disturbing process to follow a certain beliefs or to achieve certain beauty in perfume and the sailor
 * Siddhartha Noboru, chief and the boys go against society's teachings and traditional methods of education. || * Both Siddhartha and Grenioulle walk the path of learning. Both characters "learn" from different masters and use that to their advantage=> Results to their final outcome (enlightenment, mass murderer)
 * Illusions and dreams when Gren was in the cave and sidd was meditating.
 * Grenioulle and Siddhartha both serve as outcasts but then graduallymerge to be part of society as they further learn "how" to fit in. ||
 * Henry || * animal refrences comparing the boys and grenouille
 * Studying as an escape from reality / strive for achieving to be better G and N
 * Role of female characters in perfume and sailor || * The importance of water in Sid and Ryuji's lives. Water transforms them into something that is beyond what they actually are || * How the plot in Sidhartha and Perfume works in a cylical format. ||
 * Hera || * Role of changing climate/weather in both novels throughout the plot
 * Grenouille and Noboru's different ways of achieivng their goals (Grenouille utilizes his inherent quality to achive his goal while Noboru wants to give up his innate personality and become a different self)
 * Role of the mentors in helping the protagonists achieve their goal (Baldini in Perfume - helps Grenouille but G is more talented, faces unfortunate death by coincidence (?) /Ryuji in Sailor - tells Noboru fascinating stories about the sea, more expert in the field, but faces unfortunate death directly related to Noboru _Ryuji's death is not entirely revealed in the novel, but Noboru's group is the main cause of Ryuji's possible death) || * Similarities and differences in actions of Noboru and Siddhartha as the two characters decide to become a different oneself (Noboru's nihilism, Siddartha's contemplative life)
 * Role of friends/companions in helping the protagonist achieve his goal revealed through their impacts on the protagonist
 * Protagonist's influence on his friends/companions reflected through the protagonist's speech and attitude towards his friends/companions
 * Role of the leaders on the protagonist's life (Chief in Sailor, Gotama in Siddhartha) || * Role of the death of female characters in helping protagonists achieve their final goals (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)
 * Grenouille and Siddhartha - brought up in totally different family backgrounds, but both Grenouille and Siddhartha are not able TO LOVE and BE LOVED by others in the same way that everyone else does (Grenouille with the aid of perfume, Siddhartha does not feel any real love towards others)
 * Grenouille and Siddhartha - brought up in totally different family background, differences reflected in the ways of their thinking (?) ||
 * Janita || * the absence of love from parents during the childhood years of grenouille and the chief facilitated the acts of murder that they perpetrated. || * The womans (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 enlightment for Siddhartha. || * The parallel journey's of Grenouille and Siddhartha upon the search of self-worth and self-realisation. ||
 * Jerry || (very rough unrefined ideas)
 * morality - Grenouille's amorailty and boy's nihilism in relation with killing
 * Grenouille and Ryuji's sense of divine/glorific purpose and eventual let down
 * isolation of G and N
 * consummate female figures - girls Grenouille murders and Fusako || Objects in motion and how they portray characters' //attitude/state of mind??// || cyclical nature of Grenouille and Siddhartha's lives ||
 * Jocelyn || * The emotions Grenouille experiences when killing girls VS the emotions Noboru experiences when he kills the kitten
 * The purpose of the role of “traditions” in each novel: Perfume (pre-enlightenment ideas), Sailor (traditional Japanese ideas), and how they contribute towards the purpose of the novels
 * "Beauty" of death || * The contradicting feelings Noboru feels when searching for his belief (Nihilism) VS the mixed feelings Siddhartha feels when searching for his true belief || * Religion (I don't know exactly what I want to do yet)
 * Religious illusions as a mean to glorify Grenouille / Siddhartha ||
 * John || * Similarity of motives behind Grenouille's and the boy's murdering of innocent lives || * Physical affection between SiddhaxKama and RyuxFusa as causes of change in mental and spiritual mindsets or perspectives. || * Isolation from society as a way of discovering oneself
 * Detachment from oneself as a way of experiencing passion in life. ||
 * Maryanne || * Grenouille and Chief & boys + Noboru's perceiving death as something beautiful.
 * The narrator's description of women - their appearance and its significance to their role. || * Influence of peers of Noboru and Siddhartha towards their goals and achievements ||  ||
 * Michael R || rough ideas:
 * Parallel events that occur in Sailor and Perfume (eg. Noboru's passion for the sea to Grenouille's passion for perfume)
 * Chief and the Boy's to Grenouille (early life, birth, parents, etc)
 * Comparisons between Ryuji and Grenouille (physical appearances, goals and ambitions, death)
 * Grenouille's decision to leave the cave and continue his journey compared to Ryuji's decision to abandon his ambitions and settle down with Fusako and the Land || * Ryuji's decisions between the land and sea, compared to siddartha's decisions between his world and the world
 * Noboru's hatred of the world in contrast to Siddartha's acceptance of the world || * comparison of use of religious elements in the books
 * the extent to which both books can be considered heroes' journeys
 * Michael X || The cyclical nature of the Ryuji and Grenouille's lives.
 * Michael X || The cyclical nature of the Ryuji and Grenouille's lives.
 * Detest and mistrust to teachings from others as motivation for a higher ideal in life.
 * Love in Siddhartha and hate in Sailor as emotions with which characters embrace life and death. || * The contagiousness of ideas and the contagiousness of scent.
 * The circular flow of the personages' lives.
 * Animals as metaphors/reflections of the personages. ||
 * Oliver || Ideas:
 * Noboru and Grenouille's immoral characters, Noboru uses the peephole in his room to spy on his mother and Grenouille uses his incredible sense of smell to spy on the people around him
 * The importance of the female figure in portraying beauty - The girls that Grenouille murder and Fusako
 * How obsession drives both the protagonists, Grenouille is driven by his obsession of smell and Noboru is obsessed with the sea and the peephole.
 * The way violence is a utility used to achieve the goals of each protagonist in the novels S and P.
 * The contrasting ways in which the audience views Grenouille and Noboru compared to the way the other characters within their novel view them. || * The contrasting views on the purpose of life and its exploration between the main protagonists, Siddhartha and Noboru. (Noboru's nihilistic, hatred views and Siddhartha's accepting and open views)
 * The significance of water in each novel and how it affects the main characters emotionally. (rivers, oceans) || * The significance of women in Grenouille's and Siddhartha's journeys toward their ultimate goals.
 * Comparison between the ways Grenouille and Siddhartha use of senses (Such as smell, sight, touch, etc.) has characterized them.
 * The absence of a "home" in both Grenouille's and Siddhartha's journeys and the way it affects them emotionally.
 * The different perspectives on death from Grenouille and Siddhartha. ||
 * Riowena || rough ideas:
 * deception/lying: Grenouille's continuous deception of others, Noboru's untruths told to his mother
 * use of light/darkness: recurring motifs that appear in both novels and their purposes...to create mood, signify change in events...(still thinking)
 * color motifs: colors red etc that turn up in //Sailor// and their purpose in comparison to the use of color in //perfume// ie blue = representation of the upper classes
 * appreciation of death -- death used to create something of beauty in Perfume and Sailor || * comparison between Noboru and Siddhartha in the idolization of the "ideal one" in life (Noboru worships Ryuji, Siddhartha aims to be like the Buddha)
 * The inabilities of characters to fit in with their different worlds (Ryuji is unable to fit in either land/sea, Siddhartha find himself between the ascetic/rich man's life) || * Analysis of the cyclical nature of Grenouille's and Siddhartha's lives (from poor to wealthy and back) as a demonstration of their achievements of life goals...
 * Comparison between the impacts that hunger for knowledge (or identity of one's self) has on the characterization of Grenouille and Siddhartha. ||
 * Robert || * comparison between the perceptions of right and wrong in Perfume and Sailor of Grenouille and the Chief and the boys
 * The color red in both novels and the color blue in both novels.
 * The lack of love from family in both stories lead to immorality of Grenouille, Noboru and the Chief.
 * The ambiguity of Grenouille, noboru and the chief and the boys' perception of 'what is beauty.'
 * Grenouille and the Chief's insincere praise to persuade others for their own good. || · The animals in Sailor and Siddhartha which represents the inner voice of the characters
 * Shavonne || * The similarities between final death scenes (Grenouille and Ryuji) both very barbaric
 * The love (obsession) for certain places, Grenouille and the perfume shops, and Noboru with the ships
 * Noboru and Grenouille’s unique capabilities in obtaining information, Grenouille with his sense of smell, and Noboru’s secret hole in the wall
 * Noboru and Grenouille’s description of smell, (dominantly with Grenouille)
 * The impact of societies view on the characters, Fusako is influenced by the male dominant society and Grenouille being the norm in society
 * Similarities between death's (puppy and kitten as a tester or round one) and (girls and Ryuji as the final death in obtaining the scent or killing the 'bad guy')
 * Mischievous.....(Chief when bringing Ryuji to the final destination) (Grenouille when........still thinking)
 * || * The characterisation of the main characters in the opening scene foreshadowing what is to come for them.
 * The contrasting ideas of love by Fusako and Kamala through their experiences.
 * The changing homes for Siddhartha and Ryugi; river and forest, and sea and land. || * Grenouille and Siddhartha's turning backs as a symbol of leaving their present lives and beginning a new path.
 * The isolation of Grenouille and Siddhartha from the ordinary people and their change in path as they become part of them, however drifting away to their previous ways. ||
 * Valerie || * Similarities between Grenouille and the Chief/Noboru's upbringing and the consequences that follows.
 * Connection with the outside world (Fusako's shop, Baldini's Perfumery)
 * Obsession - Grenouille with perfume. Noboru with Ships. || * The role of mentors and how they affect the protagonists into making choices. || * The journey both protagonists undertake in order to fulfill their goals. ||
 * Wendy || * Grenouille and Noboru's indifference in murder shown through very mechanic and emotionless descriptions of the corpse
 * Ironic decisions and thoughts of Noboru and Grenouille (Noboru dislikes Ryuji's phoniness but defends for him, Grenouille tries to be like a normal person but looks down upon them at the same time)
 * 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.) || * The atmosphere of discontent in the opening scenes || * How women play important roles in their journeys (Kamala helps Sidd learn about love, the scent of women allow Grenouille to achieve his ultimate goal of the perfect scent) ||