Need help to write an Essay on Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born in a food market

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born in a food market that had been erected above the Cimetiere des Innocents, the “most putrid spot in the whole kingdom” [p. 4]. He barely escapes death at his birth; his mother would have let him die among the fish guts as she had her four other children. But Grenouille miraculously survives. How would you relate the circumstances of his birth to the life he grows up to live?