English Language Arts
Jitterbug Perfume is not
your average love story. Neither is it your average adventure tale.
The book, while
tugging readers along with Alobar and Kudra through the ages, doesn’t seize life
by the throat and demand to understand its meaning, but, quite on the contrary,
the book, with the help of its characters and their accomplishments, allows
life to approach it, and to inquire for what reason it does what it does.
Jitterbug Perfume
unearths the truth of the art of immortality, and how, as seen with Alobar and
Kudra, true immortality is not the essence of longevity, and not of how long
one can remain in one’s body, because, as Robbins repeatedly explains,
everything living must, eventually, die. In Jitterbug Perfume, the two main
characters meet a dying, yes, dying god
who, up too his last moments of existence, joins them on their journey. Robbins
describes how, as gods are immortal to things that kill those who are mortal,
such as disease and bad habits, they’re only alive as long as people believe in
them. So, simply put, it is belief and ideals that bring true immortality, not
resistance to “death.” Continuing on this thought, through Alobar’s millennia-or-so
long life, he realizes that he has accomplished, relatively speaking, nothing
of substance, not including beating death at his/her own game (but for what?),
while men and women who live to be a mere 60 years old have accomplishments
that are as immortal as his body, yet their ideas are recognized for their great
feats, while he (to those that have heard his tale) frightens those who are
mortal with the unknown. With this, after his millennia of living, Alobar
discovers that the true essence of immortality does not lie with the body, but
with the mind.
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