Haroun And The Sea Of Stories

The idea of marriage and family go hand in hand for most. The preconceived notion is that if someone has chosen a partner or spouse that they should be devoted and faithful to that spouse. Often times both partners are capable of remaining faithful in the relationship and are able to maintain the strength of their union. However, on occasion one or both partners commit adultery. Consequently, that betrayal often comes with disastrous consequences for everyone involved. There also tends to be some hypocrisy among male and female behaviors in regards to infidelity. More often than not a male’s infidelity is seen as acceptable while a female engaged in the same behavior is not. Adultery is committed in both the story of Agamemnon and in the Odyssey. In both of these stories, Agamemnon and Odysseus both commit adultery however their wives’ reaction to the adulterous act dramatically differ from one another. In an examination of Theano’s letter on Marriage and Family, a wife should remain faithful despite her husband’s transgressions. After reviewing the actions of both Penelope and Clytemnestra’s actions, I will test my thesis by proving why Thaeno is accurate in his description of a faithful wife.

The “One fish story at time” part of the book reminded of husbands. He is a very good story teller, but tends to hog the spot light. When we first met we would tell stories from our childhood and I every time I would begin to tell a story he cut me off and begin telling another story of his own. It made me laugh to see much this book attained to me.

There are also various types of journeys that differ from your standard journey of getting from one place to another such as emotional, spiritual, and psychological journeys that challenge the character in a book, or even the reader. The journey essentially matters more than the destination when you gain knowledge along the way that transforms you into becoming a better person with greater values and ethics.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories is the fifth novel written by Salman Rushdie. If you look closely at both a reading about Salman's life and one of his novels, you can actually find connections between them. In the reading about Rushdie's life, it was made evident that people despised his book The Satanic Verses. This is the same case in Rashid's life, for some people very much disliked his story telling. Furthermore, in the supplementary reading; I learned that individual people and larger organizations like governments wanted to capture Rushdie. This is because Rushdie's controversial book was heavily looked down upon by the Muslim Religion. This is a parallel to the Sea of Stories due to the fact that Khattam-Shud wanted to capture Rashid

A story can make a reader feel different emotions. An author has to choose the correct words in order to convey their message to the reader. In the story, the author chose to write it in the creature’s point of view. This allows the reader to understand what the creature is thinking. When a person talks about a story, they only talk about what they heard or saw, they don’t talk about what the person was thinking.

Fairy tales are an entertaining and memorable way to teach valuable lessons to children. However, things have not always been this way with fairy tales. In the past, fairy tales could serve as an outlet for unpopular ideas and thoughts, or a way for people with little value in society to express themselves. Fairy tales were often tightly related to their author’s culture, possibly because it made the story more familiar. In Hans Christian Andersen’s “Den Lille Havfrue”, better known as “The Little Mermaid”, Andersen uses prominent mythological and cultural ties to display the struggles of a young girl who wants to see what the world offers, as opposed to staying at the bottom of the ocean and living a mermaid’s long, but soulless and definite life.

In the Hebrew Bible and The Odyssey there are heroic figures that play an important role through out each of the books. These heroic figures from the Bible and The Odyssey have many similarities and differences that reflect the different cultures they are from. These heroes are called upon by greater beings, such as gods, to complete difficult journeys and or tasks that the god has made them destined to complete. Each of these legendary heroes demonstrates a particular culture’s needs. Through these journeys and or tasks they are forced to overcome challenging obstacles and make sacrifices.

A policeman is coming out the door of the station as they’re going up the steps.

This archetypal quest bolsters the idea that Haroun first takes this role when he arrives on the moon. After Haroun hears about the traumatic event that has occured, he starts his quest to save the people of Kahani, after seeing how much distress they were in. Furthermore, Haroun propels the idea of this archetypal journey by trying to rid the planet of evil. He hears about Kattum-Shud and his plan to stop new stories emerging from Kahani. Haroun has seen the Gardeners along with the Plentimaw Fish and how much distress they are enduring, and vows to save them.

The journeys one takes not only shape who we are, but who you will become. Comparing all three of the different pieces of literary work, one finds. All three characters are looking for a path of greatness and hope for an unforgettable journey that they will never forget. The only problem is none of them really know where it is going to take them. Each of these characters fall under the same category; hope. The mysterious man in “The Road Not Taken” is hoping for the right path to greatness, Pi is hoping for a long shot to survive, and Odysseus is hoping to return home to Penelope. A mental journey compels one to push through discovery of personal limits of the human mind teaching one to overcome using intellectual and cognitive senses to make significant conclusions based on what they perceive as the correct decision.

So Iff the Water Genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Streams of Story, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the ocean contained different sorts of stories, and all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the

“By the way,” said Pawl, “what did you do get the king to hit you?”

background on his family, like the fact that his grandparents emigrated from Afghanistan. We learn that his grandparents escaped war in Afghanistan to come to the United States. His grandparents had hopes of a better life for their children and future grandchildren. Readers also learn about the holidays and practices his family takes part in like Ramadan. We also get to learn about Jay, who is white, Catholic, middle class, and lives with his parents. The most interesting part about Jay is we get to watch as he tries to assimilate into the school as a new student. Readers also watch as Jay has to make sense of the discrimination he sees and hears. For example, when Azeem is arrested, Jay has a difficult time believing what the news has to say about Azeem being a home grown terrorist. When he discusses the event with his mother, he explains to her, “I

Nice, friendly, bad, fake, dependable, spacy, independent, passionate. As I sift through the layers of adjectives I have been labeled throughout my adolescent life, I pose myself the question: who the hell am I? Too easily, I resort to answering that question with a list of things I have accomplished or partake in, replying with I am a runner or I sing in the choir. While both facts may be true, they fail to truly answer the original question.

For a first novel, the prose was lovely, and the mystery and alienation came through in the story that always danced over and across a line of fantasy, leaving multiple avenues to interpret parts of the story. It was intangible as ice or snow in the sun, melting and reforming.