Patrick Suskind's Use Of Exaggeration In 'Perfume'

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Exaggeration is commonly used in everyday life to make a story an individual may use when telling another about an event that happened to them. The so called ‘narrator’ of the event may add in more details to the story than what actually happened to attract the ‘reader’ and keep them interested. Authors may use the same tactic to pull readers in and keep them excited to read the end of the story/novel/etc. Exaggeration for the background of the story or even a Shakespearean play gives the story a entirely different meaning in general.

Perfume, which was written by Patrick Suskind, gives the reader an overwhelming, to the point of sickening, imagery of stench. The protagonist of the novel, Grenouille, becomes obsessed with finding

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