in infancy. His eerie presence makes the orphanage children feel uneasy and they sense Grenouille to be peculiar. The tone throughout this quote is harsh, sad, angry, and corrupt because the children wanted to kill a baby and learned through their care taker that brutality was accepted. Next, the author displays dramatic irony by ending the story at the orphanage where they tried to kill him. This presents cyclical structure by showing how ironic it is that Grenouille dies in the orphanage that wanted to end him. At the beginning of the book, Grenouille starts off in the orphanage and later ends up dying in the same orphanage. Suskind provides the cyclical structure of Grenouille in this chapter because he went back to what harmed him
