Perfume- Patrick Suskind- part 3- page 236- 255

After Grenouille went up to the excution ground, everybody could feel for sure that he wasn't the murderer. For them, he was the most gorgeous man, an angel. The excutioner didn't want to hit him even that was his duty. To be truth, they honoured him like a "God".
Thousands of people at that ground began to feel that they want to love and be loved. They tore their clothes and loved anyone next to them and became strange relationships, or "combinations": "grandfather with virgin, odd- jobber with lawyer's spouse, apprentice with nun" etc. Grenouille stood there, and realized something terrible. He created a brilliant perfume but he couldn't enjoy it, he was born without love and didn't want to have, either. He hated everyone because he thought they were fool, mortal but somehow "he wanted to be like other people". He wanted everyone to know how terrible he was and reply him by hating him but nothing ever happened. After all, he just created the most wonderful perfume and it just covered his true face. At that time, Grenouille felt the fog, his no-smell-scent again, he was frightented because now he couldn't escape the truth.
Suddenly, Richis, the father of the last girl he killed ran up to the excution ground. Grenouille thought he would kill him because he was the only one who smelled the scent of his daughter. Grenouille opened wide his arms like he was ready to face his death. However, Richis didn't kill him, he held him like a father was holding his son. Richis' face was full of tear, he said "Forgive me, my son, my dear son, forgive me". Grenouille couldn't stand anymore, his terrible truth was still there, he fainted.
Of course Richis wasn't his true father. Richis said that because he looked at him like he looked at his daughter, he thought Grenouille was her brother beacause he felt that they were similar. After Richis brought Grenouille home and let him slept on his daughter's bed, Grenouille went away in silent. Everyone woke up in surprised feelings, they got dressed and came back to their houses and forgot the murderer. The court decided to hang Druot because after all, the clothes and the hair of the girls were found in his house. Although everyone felt ashamed when they met someone on the street, they became more friendly with each other. Everything were back to normal.
Grenouille came back to Paris, he wanted to die there. It was a hot day, like the day he was born. In this city at night, the culprits began to sat around a "small campfire" to make some food. Grenouille went to the middle of them and poured whole his wonderful perfume. The culprits began to love him, they disputed each other to have a touch of him. To be truth, they disputed to have one piece of him. Grenouille was pulled, torn by about thirty people, was chopped "into thiry pieces" by "knives" and "axes". And when everyone had their piece, they ate it. Just 30 minutes later, "Jean-Baptiste Grenouille had dissapeared utterly from the earth". The culprits calmed down now and they sat close to each other around the "campfire" again. They were not only scared but also happy. They were scared because they ate a man, they could have killed many people but they wouldn't think about that horrible act ever. However, they were also happy. Once in their life, they did something because they loved.

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This is the most terrible part, but I love it. This story was around this wonderful perfume, a scent that can make people love, a really love potion. I realize that author wanted to emphasize that human's scent was still the most brilliant scent. I can understand that everyone in this world always want to live happily, to love and be loved, no matter who you are. This story makes me think a lot about life, really. This is the end of Perfume.