Significant+Literary+Features


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 * Riowena and Jocelyn's group **

· Literary Features o Chp 1-10 § Sensory devices: lists of the scents (endless descriptions) - imagery § Animal metaphors: Grenouille the tick (21-22) o Chp 11-20 § chp 15 --> Grenouille’s actions--> pace of the sentences = emphasizes the roughness of Grenouille in creating Amor and Psyche to Baldini’s horror § More listing to show Grenouille’s desires to create and possess scents, to “steal” them (99) o Chp 21-30 § Irony - Baldini’s death and fate (22) § Imagery and descriptions · describes the purple castle in Grenouille’s heart --> significant metaphors and symbolism involved (27) § <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Allusion --> Grenouille links himself with God in the creation of his world of scents (26) o <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Chp 31-40 § <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">narration style--> changes which seems if Grenouille is speaking instead of just telling and describing. § <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Hyperbole --> exaggeration of the desired effects of Grenouille’s ultimate perfume to show his ambitions and contempt for mankind (32) o <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Chp 41-51 § <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony --> Even Richis is fooled by Grenouille with the false sense of security as well as the perfume’s effect (p 213) § <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Contrast of color --> dark vs light upon Laure’s death, the irony of Richis’s dreams and fears (46)

Michael Xie + Valerie + Robert + Chris

1-10 The plot starts from Grenouille’s birth, and develops as Grenouille trains his sense of smell. Suskind often compares Grenouille to animals (however, never to a frog, the literal translation of his name).

11-20 Suskind uses compound complex sentences, appositives, and interjections (between dashes) to give great amounts of information which are usually not real time. He uses simple sentences to describe events which follow the timeline of the plot (i.e. “Then [Baldini] opens the window” (p. 65) takes place real time; “And therefore … nothing less than a miracle” (p.79) is a description of what happens in the future; “It was Amor… own product” (p.83) describes the perfume with much detail instead of “the perfume was identical” or whatnot.)

21-30 Suskind narrates the story as though narrating it in person, i.e. “We say ‘almost’, for of course…” (p.115) makes the narration seem as though he is talking to the reader instead of just blatantly narrating.

31-40 Suskind often writes in the perspective of another character, i.e. even though the narrator is the same, the narration reveals the thoughts and mental activity of a character as though the narrator is the character itself.

41-51 Mini-theme: Chaos and disorder sets in the plot, i.e. massive ‘ritual’ of copulation; absence of righteousness (as Druot is taken to execution instead of Grenouille); people act differently and a tension arises between them (after giant ‘ritual’ and after Grenouille being eaten).

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Michael/Wendy/Maryanne/Shavonne

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 90pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">Chp. 11-20 When describing a smell, uses very vivid description compared to when describing a visual or other senses. Reveals his preference for scent. <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 90pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">Chp. 21-30 “Like a shipwrecked sailor ecstatically greeting the sight of an inhabited island after weeks of aimless drifting, Grenouille celebrated his arrival at the mountain of solitude.” P121 Simile

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 90pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Chp. 31-40 After the marquis gave his lecture, “At this he spread his arms wide, cast his eyes heavenwards – and many learned men did likewise, women wept.” Pg 158 His actions and other people’s actions show that he is powerful and he has a lot of fame he strives for this fame and people believe him to be strong.

Chp. 41-50 p210 Laure is said to be Grenouille’s “treasure”. The girls are described as objects since they are nothing but collections to Grenouille.

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Chp. 1-10 Long sentences when describing scents, symbolizing overwhelming thought that comes over Grenouille when on the topic of scent. This reveals his great love and interest for it.

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> Oliver + Jerry + Janita + Hera

Literary features - 1-10 - Comparisons of Grenouille to the tick used to characterize him. Ex: “Grenouille was such a tick. He lived encapsulated in himself and waited for better times. He gave the world nothing but his dung- no smile, no cry, no glimmer in the eye, not even his own scent.” Pg 22.

11-20 - Hyperboles are used to exaggerate Grenouille’s ability of smell. Ex: ‘“I have the best nose in Paris, Maitre Baldini.” Grenouille interrupted with a rasp. “I know all the odors in the world, all of them” Pg 73

21-30 - The simple smells allow for Grenouille to be free in his cave. “For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance...For the first time in his life he did not have to prepare himself to catch the scent of something new.”Pg 115, Hyperbole exaggerating his extreme ability to smell.

31-40 - Simile, comparing Grenouille to other things: Ex: “Grenouille worked like a horse. Self-efacing and as acquiescent as a slave.” Showing his usefulness to other people.

41-50 - Vivid imagery of the cemetery ground make it seem more horrific and scary. Ex: “Before him lay the cemetery grounds like a cratered battlefield, burrowed and ditch and trenched with graves, sown with skulls and bones, not a tree bush, or blade of grass, a garbage dump of death.” Pg 253