Perfume Sea

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Term Paper Title	Perfume Sea
# of Words	919
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.68

Perfume Sea

"The Perfume Sea" is set in a beauty parlor in a West African Country just before and after the nation gains its political independence from British Colonial rule. It deals with a hair dresser, Mr. Archipelago, who coiffeurs the hair for brittish ladies who are in this colony, but when Great Britain declares this a free colony all the british ladies return to England and leave Mr. Archipelago with little business. Mr. Archipelago and his assistant Doree decide that to keep their business afloat and to be able to support themselves, they must change with the times. "The Perfume Sea" is a short story that deals with the theme of adapting and changing with the times to survive. It also deals with the theme of taking control of life, and not leaving things to happen randomly, or else there will be unexpected and unavoidable change that will force you to take control in life. Another theme that is shown is that if you change with the times you can control your life. The story depicts and relates many of the themes to the sea using vivid nautical images and nautical expressions and nautical terms.
The first image connected with the sea is the name of the main character, Mr. Archipelago. Archipelago means a sea with many islands. This symbolizes that Mr. Archipelago’s life is a sea, with many different stops (the islands), upon which he can rest for a bit before he moves on to the next island. We know this is true because Mr. Archipelago is originally from Genoa, but for some reason or another which we aren’t told, he is forced to leave Genoa, and is can’t return there. Genoa was only one stop in his life, one single island in a sea with many islands. Africa, here in the beauty parlor is another stop upon which he wishes to build his home. This image shows that Mr. Archipelago wishes for a normal and routine life, but he can’t get it without changing and adapting with the time. This is shown when all the Brittish ladies leave the colony and he has no customers left, and before Mr. Archipelago has a chance to change his beauty parlor, he says he has decided to build his house on an island that is sinking. But after Mr. Archipelago changes his beauty salon to a beauty salon for African ladies, then he saves himself and his "house on the island". This shows that people can control their lives as long as they change with the times, and if they don’t change with the times, then their house will sink. The next image is when Mr. Archipela...

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