Every writer with their significant ability to create an outstanding novel uses detail. It does not matter the abundance of detail; the detail itself catches the attention of the reader. The reader recently perused two novels involving this type of work. The Perfume and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Each novel built up massive amounts of creativity and detail. However, each in their own way. In Perfume the author, Patrick Suskind, developed about two of the five senses in his work by using detail. The setting of this story had taken place in the 1700s. With that being stated, Patrick constructed an unforgettable image in one’s mind and a putrid smell in one’s nose. The novel Perfume uses massive amounts of detail when building up the story.
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Starting with the description about Santiago’s (main character) dream. For this purpose, the dream sums up the fact that Santiago imagines his fantasy life better than his real life. Thus, providing the reader clarification about how he feels about his own life. In addition, the scene about the Vicario brothers (murderers) and Santiago together drinking generates confusion for the reader. Mainly due to the fact the Vicario brothers plan to kill Santiago. In other words, why associate with someone you want to kill? Moreover, the main plot of this novel voices nauseating details unbearable to imagine. The murder. The details fabricated creates quite a scene. The author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, may have overdone this scene in detail. To explain, during this scene, the author describes the murder as such ‘pulled out his knife with his slaughterer's iron wrist and dealt him a second thrust almost in the same place…..twisted after the third stab, his arms crossed over his stomach, let out the moan of a calf, and tried to turn his back to them….even took care to brush off the dirt that was stuck to his guts.’ These thought out details really expresses the author’s imagination when conjuring up a story. The impact this creates for the reader is astonishing. All the details makes the mind wonder and possibly feel remorse toward
Starting with the description about Santiago’s (main character) dream. For this purpose, the dream sums up the fact that Santiago imagines his fantasy life better than his real life. Thus, providing the reader clarification about how he feels about his own life. In addition, the scene about the Vicario brothers (murderers) and Santiago together drinking generates confusion for the reader. Mainly due to the fact the Vicario brothers plan to kill Santiago. In other words, why associate with someone you want to kill? Moreover, the main plot of this novel voices nauseating details unbearable to imagine. The murder. The details fabricated creates quite a scene. The author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, may have overdone this scene in detail. To explain, during this scene, the author describes the murder as such ‘pulled out his knife with his slaughterer's iron wrist and dealt him a second thrust almost in the same place…..twisted after the third stab, his arms crossed over his stomach, let out the moan of a calf, and tried to turn his back to them….even took care to brush off the dirt that was stuck to his guts.’ These thought out details really expresses the author’s imagination when conjuring up a story. The impact this creates for the reader is astonishing. All the details makes the mind wonder and possibly feel remorse toward