MasukPustaka
Cari
Why Is The Perfume Novel Banned Or Challenged In Some Schools?
2025-10-06 14:10:31
203
4 Jawaban
Franklin
2025-10-08 00:54:22
Growing up, I heard about 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' mostly through whispers—people warned it was intense. From where I stand now, the bans usually come down to two things: graphic sexual or violent imagery and community standards. Schools get complaints because the novel doesn’t hide the grotesque parts; it dwells on bodies and smells in ways that some adults find inappropriate for teens.
Another reason is practical: teachers who would need to lead discussions about morality, psychopathy, and disturbing aesthetics might not feel comfortable or trained to do that. So instead of risking upset parents or upsetting students, some administrators opt to remove the book from reading lists. Personally, I’d rather see it offered with clear content warnings and an opt-out, so curious readers can engage while others aren’t forced into it.
Another reason is practical: teachers who would need to lead discussions about morality, psychopathy, and disturbing aesthetics might not feel comfortable or trained to do that. So instead of risking upset parents or upsetting students, some administrators opt to remove the book from reading lists. Personally, I’d rather see it offered with clear content warnings and an opt-out, so curious readers can engage while others aren’t forced into it.
Chloe
2025-10-09 01:19:47
I like to think of it as two layers: the book itself and the community reaction. 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' is intense—its sensory prose and gruesome plot make many adults uneasy about students encountering it unsupervised. That’s the straightforward reason schools challenge it: sexual and violent content, plus a chilling protagonist.
The second layer is politics and responsibility. School leaders get calls from parents, and banning can feel like the quickest way to keep peace. But outright removal also shuts down chances to teach critical reading or media literacy. If you’re curious, suggest a supervised reading option or a trigger-warning note; that middle ground respects concerns while preserving access to provocative literature.
The second layer is politics and responsibility. School leaders get calls from parents, and banning can feel like the quickest way to keep peace. But outright removal also shuts down chances to teach critical reading or media literacy. If you’re curious, suggest a supervised reading option or a trigger-warning note; that middle ground respects concerns while preserving access to provocative literature.
Kieran
2025-10-09 19:09:37
On discussion boards where I hang out, people split into two camps about why 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' gets challenged. One camp points to explicit content—sexual undertones, necrophilic implications, and gruesome murders described in sensory, almost fetishistic detail. The other camp frames it as a community-values decision: schools must answer to parents and boards, and controversial art often gets the short end because it’s easier to ban than to contextualize.
Legally and administratively, challenges often follow district policy language like "age-appropriate material" or "content offensive to community standards." That’s not inherently literary criticism, it’s risk management. Yet from an educational perspective, the novel can open rich discussions about narrative voice, unreliable protagonists, and historical European settings. If a school removes it, I’d suggest offering a taught alternative—either a moderated seminar or a different text that sparks similar debate without traumatic specifics—so students still wrestle with complex themes safely.
Legally and administratively, challenges often follow district policy language like "age-appropriate material" or "content offensive to community standards." That’s not inherently literary criticism, it’s risk management. Yet from an educational perspective, the novel can open rich discussions about narrative voice, unreliable protagonists, and historical European settings. If a school removes it, I’d suggest offering a taught alternative—either a moderated seminar or a different text that sparks similar debate without traumatic specifics—so students still wrestle with complex themes safely.
Scarlett
2025-10-09 21:57:06
I get why schools sometimes flip out over 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'—it’s a book that doesn’t try to be gentle. The prose is obsessive and sensory in a way that can make classrooms uncomfortable: explicit descriptions of crime, bodies, and an almost clinical fascination with murder and scent. For parents and community members worried about age-appropriateness, those passages can feel exploitative rather than educational.
Beyond the vivid violence, there's sexual content and morally disturbing undertones (the protagonist’s detachment and actions can feel like they glorify a warped worldview). For a school setting where students are still forming values and emotional resilience, administrators sometimes choose to avoid exposing young readers to such material without careful framing.
That said, I also think there's value in reading difficult books with good guidance—teachers can turn controversy into a lesson about ethics, narrative voice, and historical context. If a school blocks it, consider a mature book group or a syllabus note with trigger warnings; it’s a tough read but one that can teach a lot when handled thoughtfully.
Beyond the vivid violence, there's sexual content and morally disturbing undertones (the protagonist’s detachment and actions can feel like they glorify a warped worldview). For a school setting where students are still forming values and emotional resilience, administrators sometimes choose to avoid exposing young readers to such material without careful framing.
That said, I also think there's value in reading difficult books with good guidance—teachers can turn controversy into a lesson about ethics, narrative voice, and historical context. If a school blocks it, consider a mature book group or a syllabus note with trigger warnings; it’s a tough read but one that can teach a lot when handled thoughtfully.
Lihat Semua Jawaban
Pindai kode untuk mengunduh Aplikasi
Buku Terkait
Skin Perfume
(WARNING : R-18 content)
---------------------
"What is this perfume on your neck? Tell me, I want to know."
"No perfume. It's just the smell of my skin, combined with the adrenaline generated from the moment I saved you, the pleasure I'm feeling on this bed while I'm laying on top of your naked body."
- The love told in the movies doesn't exist. Romance doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is sex, pure, violent, wild, a breathtaking combination of sensations of pleasure and new fragrances to explore.
This is precisely what Kora Night does, creating new essences drawing inspiration from the smells and sensations of her lovers around the world.
"Perfumes are the essence of life itself. They cannot be explained. Where words fail, perfumes release the most intense and hidden emotions of the ego, awakening the darkest and most primordial instincts of human beings."
Kora's career started to take off, and everything proceeded according to plan, when during one of her business trips, she lived the most beautiful night of her life, the night that will change everything.
---------------------
I sincerely hope you'll enjoy reading my original novel :) comments and reviews will always be appreciated!
p.s. With this story I will try to make you live some of the emotions I experienced in my life, so in a sense, this novel is 'inspired by a true story'. Good reading!
5 Bab
The Billionaire's Lust For Cheap Perfume
Jessica's life takes an unexpected turn when tragedy strikes, and she becomes responsible for her younger siblings. Putting her dreams of becoming a doctor aside, she takes up a job as an exotic dancer to make ends meet, but fate has something entirely different in store for her. Damon, a charismatic billionaire who owns the club, becomes captivated by Jessica. He begins secretly helping her financially, but Damon has secrets.... one in particular that Jessica may never be able to forgive.
62 Bab
My husband from novel
This is the story of Swati, who dies in a car accident. But now when she opens her eyes, she finds herself inside a novel she was reading online at the time. But she doesn't want to be like the female lead. Tanya tries to avoid her stepmother, sister and the boy And during this time he meets Shivam Malik, who is the CEO of Empire in Mumbai. So what will decide the fate of this journey of this meeting of these two? What will be the meeting of Shivam and Tanya, their story of the same destination?
96 Bab
WICKED OBSESSION (EROTIC NOVEL)
WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS SEXUAL SCENES.
Antonius Altamirano had everything a man could wish for; wealth, vast properties, and a name in the business industry. But then the problem was, he has a very complicated relationship with women. Hindi niya kayang umiwas sa tukso. He’s a good man, but he can easily be tempted.
He had to marry Selene Arnaiz, one of the wealthiest and most famous actresses of her generation. It was a marriage for convenience, for Niu it was to save face from all his investors, and for Selene, it was for her fame and career.
But Niu had a secret, he has been in a long-time relationship with Dr. Leann Zubiri, the best surgeon in the country. Niu claimed to be in love with her. Leann was contented to being his mistress for she was really in love with him. She can take it, being not the legal wife, as long as Niu would spare time for her.
Niu doesn’t want to add more complication to his relationship with Selene and Leann, but Kate Cadelina entered the picture and shook his world.
Niu didn’t expect that he’ll be attracted head over heels with the sassy secretary of her sister-in-law. She’s like a breath of fresh air that gave relief from all the stress in his life.
Niu was never been this confused his whole life. Being married to a woman he didn’t love and having a mistress was a huge trouble already. How can he handle this now that he wanted Kate to be part of his life?
Who will he choose?
The woman he married? Or the woman he claimed that he was in love with? Or Kate, his beautiful ray of sunshine that gives light to his chaotic world?
5 Bab
WUNMI (A Nigerian Themed Novel)
The line between Infatuation and Obsession is called Danger.
Wunmi decided to accept the job her friend is offering her as she had to help her brother with his school fees. What happens when her new boss is the same guy from her high school? The same guy who broke her heart once?
*****
Wunmi is not your typical beautiful Nigerian girl.
She's sometimes bold, sometimes reserved.
Starting work while in final year of her university seemed to be all fun until she met with her new boss, who looked really familiar.
She finally found out that he was the same guy who broke her heart before, but she couldn't still stop her self from falling.
He breaks her heart again several times, but still she wants him.
She herself wasn't stupid, but what can she do during this period of loving him unconditionally?
Read it, It's really more than the description.
48 Bab
Transmigration To My Hated Novel
Elise is an unemployed woman from the modern world and she transmigrated to the book "The Lazy Lucky Princess." She hated the book because of its cliché plot and the unexpected dark past of the protagonist-Alicia, an orphan who eventually became the Saint of the Empire. Alicia is a lost noble but because of her kind and intelligent nature the people naturally love and praise her including Elise.
When Elise wakes up in the body of the child and realizes that she was reincarnated to the book she lazily read, she struggles on how to survive in the other world and somehow meets the characters and be acquainted with them. She tried to change the flow of the story but the events became more dangerous and Elise was reminded why she hated the original plot.
Then Alicia reaches her fifteen birthday. The unexpected things happened when Elise was bleeding in the same spot Alicia had her wound. Elise also has the golden light just like the divine power of the Saint.
"You've gotta be kidding me!"
30 Bab
Pertanyaan Terkait
What Is The Significance Of Perfume In 'Jitterbug Perfume'?
3 Jawaban2025-06-24 20:43:53
The perfume in 'Jitterbug Perfume' isn't just a scent—it's the heartbeat of the story, a literal and metaphorical elixir of immortality. Tom Robbins crafts it as this wild, alchemical concoction that bridges centuries, linking the Bohemian king Alobar and the modern-day hippie Priscilla. It represents eternal life, but not in some stuffy, philosophical way. This perfume smells like rebellion, freedom, and the raw stink of human persistence. Every whiff carries the chaos of history, the sweat of lovers, and the stubborn refusal to fade away. The characters chase it like it's the secret to existence, and honestly, in Robbins' world, it might be.
What Is The Ending Of The Perfume Novel And Its Meaning?
4 Jawaban2025-08-24 15:01:51
I sat on my couch one rainy evening and finished 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' feeling oddly exhilarated and queasy at the same time. The ending—Grenouille finally bottles the ultimate scent and uses it to become adored by an entire crowd—reads like the book's proof that smell can trump law, logic, and reputation. For a moment he becomes a god: people see him as an angel, they worship and adore him, and all his crimes are erased by the perfume's power to manipulate human perception.
The strangest, and to me most affecting, moment comes next. Rather than live as a counterfeit god, Grenouille seeks the one thing his life never gave him: genuine belonging. He returns to the filth and hunger of the street and lets the perfumed crowd tear him apart and consume him. It's violent and grotesque, but also oddly tender—he dissolves into the very human mess he'd been separated from by his obsession. To me it means that mastery of art can create illusions of unity, but real human connection is messy and embodied; Grenouille chooses annihilation over being an idol of other people's fabricated love.
How Does Symbolism Of Smell Evolve In The Perfume Novel?
4 Jawaban2025-08-24 02:50:31
There's a scene in 'Perfume' that always sits with me: as a reader I can almost taste the air, and it shows how the symbolism of smell starts intimate and becomes political. Early on, scent is portrayed like a secret map—private, almost primitive. For Grenouille, smell is a means of orientation and survival; it's the sensory alphabet he learns before society teaches him manners. That initial stage is about discovery and the raw power of the body to read the world.
As the novel progresses, smell shifts into craft and language. It moves from instinct to technique—composing accords, distilling essences, creating illusions that rewrite other people's perceptions. Smell becomes symbolic of authorship and social performance: a perfume can erase poverty, invent nobility, or enact seduction. By the climax, scent isn't merely a trait or memory marker; it becomes totalizing authority, a tool that commands crowds and reveals how society can be manipulated by aesthetics and desire.
I also think Süskind uses this evolution to critique Enlightenment rationality and emerging consumer culture. Where 'In Search of Lost Time' treats scent as a portal to memory, 'Perfume' weaponizes it—turning remembrance into social control. Reading it on a rainy afternoon, smelling coffee and the faintest perfume from someone passing, I felt both thrilled and unsettled by how what we can't see can remake everything about who we think we are.
What Perfumes Inspired Grenouille In The Perfume Novel?
4 Jawaban2025-08-24 10:21:24
There’s something almost cinematic about how Grenouille learns from the world’s smells — he’s not inspired by brand bottles or fashions, but by raw, lived scents. As I read 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' I kept picturing the markets, tanneries, slaughterhouses and fishmongers that formed his early nose: the thick animalic reek of hides and guts, the sharp citrus and herbal tang of stalls, the sour sweat of crowded streets. Those everyday, brutal odors taught him the vocabulary of scent before anyone handed him a recipe.
Later, his education becomes more classical: the perfumery apprenticeship under Baldini and the floral harvests in Grasse expose him to essences like rose, jasmine, orange blossom, lavender and bergamot, and to animalic fixatives such as civet, musk and ambergris. But the single luminous spark is the human scent — the unique aroma of the young woman (Laure) who becomes his obsession. That human perfume, distilled through techniques like enfleurage and maceration, is what he strives to recreate, eventually leading him to extract and combine the rare, fragile fragrances of women to build his ultimate perfume. Reading those passages made me feel oddly voyeuristic, like sniffing through someone else’s memory.
What Are The Best Quotes From The Perfume Novel About Scent?
4 Jawaban2025-08-24 21:36:42
I still get a little thrill thinking about how scent takes center stage in 'Perfume'. When I reread it on a rainy afternoon, those lines about smell felt almost tactile — like someone had painted with invisible oil. One passage that stuck with me (paraphrase) says that scent is the most secret and decisive of the senses, shaping people and memories in ways sight and sound never could. That idea blew my mind the first time I noticed it.
Another moment I always underline is the scene where the protagonist perceives the world as a forest of smells, and he navigates people like maps made of aroma. There's a quiet cruelty in how Süskind writes that a single perfect scent can command a crowd; it's seductive and terrifying at once. I love how those passages make you aware of your own nose — try sniffing a sweater after reading them. It changes how you move through spaces, honestly. Reading 'Perfume' makes ordinary air feel loaded with possibility, and I keep going back for that uncanny, slightly ominous intimacy.
How Did Readers React To The Narrator Voice In The Perfume Novel?
4 Jawaban2025-08-24 09:30:46
There was a weird thrill for me in how the narrator of 'Perfume' spoke — equal parts storyteller and cold scientist. Reading it late at night on a rainy train, I felt both hypnotized and a little sick to my stomach. The voice takes you close to Grenouille’s head while never actually apologizing for him; it's almost clinical in how it catalogues sensations, yet it slips in sly judgments that made my book club gasp more than once.
Some readers adored that distance. They called the narrator omniscient, godlike, and perfectly suited to a tale about scent, obsession, and the grotesque. Others reacted badly: they felt manipulated, like the voice was winking at them while committing moral outrages on the page. I personally loved the tension — the voice makes you complicit and critical at the same time, which kept the pages turning and our post-read debates lively. It left me unsettled in a way that still lingers when I walk into a perfumery or pass a bakery.
Which Editions Of The Perfume Novel Include Author Forewords?
4 Jawaban2025-08-24 12:41:15
Hunting down which editions of 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' include an author foreword has become my little bibliophile hobby — I love those quiet, tiny extras that make a book feel personal. From what I’ve seen, it really varies by language and printing: many original German printings sometimes include a short 'Vorwort' or author's note, while English translations more often include a translator’s preface or a critic’s introduction instead of a Süskind foreword.
If you want a practical route, I usually check the book’s front matter photos on seller sites like AbeBooks or library catalogs (WorldCat is great). Look for words like 'Foreword', 'Preface', 'Author’s Note', or in German 'Vorwort'. Anniversary and collector editions are the likeliest places to find an author's personal contribution, so I’d hunt for those first. Happy sleuthing — it’s oddly satisfying when you finally find a copy with the author's own voice tucked into the front pages.
How Does Patrick Süskind Describe Scent In The Perfume Novel?
4 Jawaban2025-08-24 19:53:02
Whenever I open 'Perfume' I get a tiny electric thrill, like walking into a market full of spices at dawn. Patrick Süskind doesn't just describe smells; he builds an entire architecture of scent. He writes with this almost scientific precision—listing notes, textures, intensities—while also turning scent into character and motive. Grenouille's world is mapped by aromas: the fish markets, tanneries, bakeries, the very skin of people are given voice through smell. Süskind blends clinical cataloguing with baroque metaphor, so a scent can be both chemically dissected and mythic at once.
Reading it on a rain-slick tram once, I found myself closing my eyes and trying to imagine the futility and grandeur of trying to capture scent, as the book portrays it. Smell becomes memory, currency, sin, and power. The prose slows and hones as if to mimic sniffing — sharp staccato phrases for pungent stinks, long, syrupy sentences for voluptuous perfumes. It's obsessed and obsessive, and that style makes the olfactory world feel heartbreakingly real to me.
Pertanyaan Populer
Pencarian Populer Lebih banyak
Dummies Definition
Is There Romance In The Inheritance Games
The Wolf Den
Cengage Ebooks
To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Books On Borderline
Sit Still Daya
Will Grayson Book
The Great Gatsby By
Ivy Frank Ocean Lyrics
Dune Messiah
Best Crypto Recovery Experts For Crypto Scam Recovery
Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil
Mobi Strikeout
Story About Adventure
Li'l Brother
Free Book Editor
Romantic Wattpad Stories
Read Aloud Text Online
All Souls Trilogy Series
Download Books Website
Free Ebooks From The Library
The Elden Lord Asoiaf
Nine Yang Alchemy Emperor
Pretzel Nook
Claimed By My Brother's Best Friends
Is Physical Science
My Learning Library
Fifty Shades Darker Online Free
Jelajahi dan baca novel bagus secara gratis
Akses gratis ke berbagai novel bagus di aplikasi GoodNovel. Unduh buku yang kamu suka dan baca di mana saja & kapan saja.
Baca buku gratis di Aplikasi
Pindai kode untuk membaca di Aplikasi
