1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
... Grenouille in this unbelievable situation. This makes the reader feel a need to now experience the novel first handedly alongside Grenouille and when he is ready to strangle his prey, because he only wanted to keep her smell and nothing else. "He thrust his face to her skin and swept his flared nostrils across her, from belly to breast, to neck...gather[ing] up ... the last fragments of her scent under her chin, in her navel." (Suskind 18). The blunt language here makes the description all the more explicit, especially with the use of "breast," (Suskind 16) an offensive part of ... how...
- Word Count: 3837
- Approx Pages: 15
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate