A Comparison of A Stench of Kerosene by Amritsa Pritam with Veronica by Adwale Maja-Pearce

Father would sit on a sandalwood lounge chair puffing away on his water pipe. He often turned around to look at her and his eyes sparkled with laughter. "Auntie" dressed her hair with "Three Flowers" oil, and the perfume floated in all directions. Then she sat straight up facing the mirror, and entwined a glossy "S" chignon around her head. I stood to one side, entranced. She handed me a bottle of the "Three Flower" oil and asked me to take it to Mother. But Mother just put it in the back of the closet saying, "The smell of this new hair oil turns my stomach."

Before Abuelita dies the author uses the sun to describe rebirths: "There comes a time when the sun is defiant . . . a second when the sun is finally defeated, finally sinks into the realization that it cannot with all its power to heal or burn exist forever . . . although endings are inevitable, they are necessary for rebirths" (1241). This description is very precise in the sense of rebirths because the sun "dies" and then is "reborn" every morning. The quote "and when that time came [sunset], just when I switched on the light . . . was probably then that she died" (1241) refers back to the spiritual aspect of the light being heaven, and this is when the doors of heaven first open for Abuelita. Abuelita?s rebirth is of spiritual nature and is started when the moths carry her soul through the doors of heaven.

The purpose of this project is to experiment if smell affects taste. In the hypothesis it is stated that when the nose is plugged the taste of a jellybean will

In the novel, “Perfume”, the author, Patrick Suskind, apply imagery to the novel by using descriptive details throughout the novel as a whole. The author

This study speaks about whether or not an alerting odor, such as peppermint, can affect attention and working memory. Research has been completed previously on the influences of odorants on cognitive functioning, physiology, behavior, and mood. From earlier research, it was resulted that a person’s atmosphere was affected in either a positive or negative way; depending on the type of smell they inhaled. If a participant smelled an unpleasant smell, it was determined that the person would have a negative change in their mood; when the participant would inhale a positive smell, their mood would change positively.

Ani Lui explained the importance of smell and how we can use it to fix are problems in life. “Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary, and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains” (Diane Ackerman).On Ted Talk, Lui talked about how smell can be a huge resource to our everyday life.The show was called “Smelfes, and other experiments in synthetic biology”. She showed pictures of fruits like strawberries that could grow its own fruit. Ani Lui is from EIT lab, a designer. She sorts out science fiction and science fact. At their lab, they study artificial life and objects. Back in the 19-century women would put an apple under there underarm. If the man ate the apple that meant

She claims in the novel to have the smell follow her everywhere, every classroom, even her apartment, she calls it the “‘fried smell’-identifying it as the rancid grease…she came to think of the accumulation of scents in her classroom with hate as ‘the colored people’s smell,’” (Petry 328). This is definitely interesting considering, in the day and age the novel takes place, women are also considered a lesser standing in society than men. She is being discriminatory when she herself is being discriminated against, for a different fact of her physical nature but is discriminated against nonetheless. The discrimination she faces may not be outright and obvious to her or to anyone else at this point, but it still happens in this novel, women are treated as property and of a lesser

This shows how she is not so use to having a good soul so she could not or was not able to fortake it so“ It’s followed out through her eyes”

The sense of smell is a powerful tool that humans have at their disposal. It can have an impact on one's psychological system. When smell enters the scene receptors in the nose, the signal is sent to the olfactory cortex and some parts of the limbic system. The limbic system is responsible for emotions, so it is possible that the sense of smell can have an impact on one's mental make-up. Aromatherapy can be used to treat patients with depression and anxiety using odors. However, studies involving aromatherapy are limited and these claims are not fully solidified. A study to see if aromatherapy is effective in treating depression would be a case study. Case studies provide more information over a longer period, which will allow for the patient

Participants will sit in the experimental room in which the novel odour is ambiently diffused at above threshold concentrations and complete the room environment evaluation on the tablet to draw their attention to the ambient odour. Ratings on the evaluation will not be recorded. An emotive image will then be presented on the

Len Foley did a good job at both writing and illustrating this bizarre children’s book! I liked the way that Len Foley wrote this book as the story was quite humorous and exaggerated with the little boy, who is the narrator, listing all the horrible smells that he has encountered, including rotten foods and his smelly socks. I liked the way that the boy in the story was exaggerating

Modern literature is known for questioning society and its various conventions. One question that these works often ask is, “What is real?” Some modern authors explore this question by placing their characters within self-constructed illusions that are later shattered by the introduction of reality. Marriages are frequently at the center of this theme, with one spouse crafting an illusory impression of the other. Modern literature demonstrates that a marriage built upon illusion will falter when exposed to reality.

Once there was a beautiful goddess, her name was Sunia. She was the goddess of the sun. Sunia was also the goddess of peace. She had beautiful blonde hair. Her hair went down her lower back. She wore a long, lovely yellow dress with a yellow butterfly necklace with matching earrings. She always had no shoes on. She also believed that every pair of shoes had a curse on them, that is why Sunia never wore shoes. Sunia was always outside playing with her dogs buttercup and peanut. They

Her eyes also provide a warning to the supernatural as they appear to put the narrator under a spell. The narrator states in awe, “What was it? I was possessed with a passion to discover. Those eyes! Those large, those shining, those divine orbs” (Poe 621).

The eye of heaven is the sun, which sometimes is too hot. Summer isn´t steady like her art, like she is. Summer changes.