Patrick Suskind first published Perfume: The Story of a Murderer in 1985. This 51 chapters novel is mostly about the story of Grenouille, a man who lived in the France of the mid-18th century, and whose life is structured by the usage of a critical and satirical language. Taking into account the previous information, answer the following questions:
What do you think is the story about?
Which could be the setting of the story?
Describe in your own words what do you think is the climax of the story about.
I think that the information provided, give us the posibility to be creative about the story and I really think that this could consist of the life of a murderer who, as a result of the habits that the development of his time affected his trajectory. I think that the novel consist in a history of how a simple kid become into a killer. Finally, I think the climax of the novel consists in the outcome of this novel where we are told how this murderer kills.
Martín Lozano
1. We can see that it is a murderer who lives in France where he is born with the ability to smell everything that is rich, which when he grows up they teach him good aromas, which begins to experience women because he when smelling their hair which is killing them one by one to find a perfume with which this smells rich their essences of women kills 7 women which the last one was like the daughter of the king but to such this one They are looking to kill him for killing these women, which is wanted, but he had already killed the last woman who was the daughter of the king and doing this they captured him and when they were going to behead him he opened the jar with the essences of all the women. 2.the stage of the story is where he begins to kill the women one by one
I think that the story is about a man who was passionate of the smell of the woman, we can think that this produce in him the pleasure of kill.
Moreover, the setting of the story took place in the past: in the middle of the 18th century, so we can infer that the context of the story is in war, related with the French Revolution
In fact, the climax would be when he discovered his attraction for the smell of the blood after he killed someone.
Valentina Hernández
The story will talk about a person who live in France in the mid-18th century, therefor the context of the novel will happen during French revolution. In addition, the tittle Perfume: The Story of a Murderer suggests that the main character will be a murderer. In the other hand, and to conclude, the man has an obsession with the smell of women.
The setting of story could be a transition between a medieval period and modern age, so that the setting shoud chance a lot.
The climax of the story will be when the police discover who the murderer is.
Julián Romero