Grenouille story is told by a particular and critical narrative voice. Taking into account the details presented by the reading, answer the questions:
Identify the narrative voice of the novel and describe it.
According to the narrator description: What does Grenouille look like? Which was his gift? Support your answers with passages or quotes.
What is the historical and social context of the story?
Read the quote and explain it in your own words: "His story will be told here. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name-in contrast to the names of other gifted abominations, de Sade’s, for instance, or Saint-Just’s, Fbuche’s, Bonaparte’s, etc.-has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, to wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent." (Suskind, s.f, p. 3).
1. In the text it can be seen that the person who is telling it is an omniscient narrator, since he tells the story of how he is remembering in a descriptive way and the person who tells the story knows everything about the main character of the story 2. The narrator, when Grenovile was a greedy boy, he used to annoy people a lot 3. This story takes place in France in the 17th century, middle class people in Paris were becoming rich and educated, life was hard for people like Gren Oville, they were poor and orphans
1. as we can see there in the writing he is telling it in a 3 person way which is omniscient which is telling the story of how he is remembering in a more descriptive way
2.JEAN he was an apprentice perfumer he had a gift in which he could smell rich essences with his nose, he was an abdminable person
3. We can see that being born with power or a gift in which he becomes an apprentice to a perfumer who gives him machines to make perfume or who becomes a murderer when looking for women to extract those essences from women and kills them
4.we can see that this refers to that power that it has to be able to perceive those essences
1. The autor of the book chooses the third person to narrate the book and it is omniscient because the person who tells the story knows everything about the principal character of the story, the place where the story takes place and the feelings among other aspects.
2. According to the narrator, when Grenouille was a baby was greedy, he was Rosy Pink and he didn’t cy but he himself didn’t smell and it bothered the people.
“But why, my good woman? Said Terrier, “He really is an adorable child. He is Rosy Pink, he doesn’t cry and he’s been baptized”
3. The story was set in France in the 18th. Although middle-class people in Paris were becoming wealthier and more educated than ever before, life was difficult for people like Grenouille, born into poverty and orphaned. Süskind captures 18th-century Paris, France, in all its sensory—and smelly—detail, and he uses the characters to reveal changing roles and tensions in society during a time of social upheaval. (https://www.coursehero.com/lit/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/context/)
4. I think that suskind wants to express that altouhgt Grenouille could be compared to other criminals he was different because of his gift, his capacity to identify different scents and to become them a real perfume.
VALENTINA HERNANDEZ 11 A