This message is exhibited in Suskind's disgustingly immoral and materialistic world in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Introduction The stated question of 'In what ways does narrative perspective reveal author's message in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind?' ... In Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, the use of third person narrative is there to scare and surprise the reader and must be first researched and explored as this is the reason behind the reader's understand and knowledge of both the story and the protagonist, which in this case is a psyc...

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Therefore we are able to see the influence of Leila's mother Mah and her Step Father Leon in her decision-making and overall assimilation into American Culture. ... This life has been seen as easier to Leila, there at times where she wants to escape and pursue an "American Dream" but she is too tied to the Chinese traditions of family commitment "for a moment I was tempted to fall back into the easiness of being Mah's daughter, of letting her be my whole life"(NG, 190) Bearing her family's issues Leila is able to represent the struggling Asian American identi...

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