Salman Rushdie's Haroun And The Sea Of Stories

This research project is focused on understanding a book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In addition, the project objective is to understand choices, actions, and processes of characters and what factors led them to arrive to such consequences.

The Arabian Nights also known as 1001 nights is a collection of entertaining and meaningful stories within stories translated by Husian Haddawy. According to Haddawy, “The stories in The Arabian Nights are works that have been collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia”. The stories in the book are not only entertaining but are also meaningful. Even though The Arabian Nights does not relate to the Quran, there are important Muslim values that are emphasized in the stories, and these values can be applied to our everyday life. Some important Muslim values in The Arabian Nights are the value of aiding those in need, the value of telling the truth, and the value of taking responsibility of your actions. The most important out of all these values is the value of aiding those in need.

Within the past few decades, there has been much controversy and scrutiny surrounding those with great levels of faith in their religions. This has only been escalating in severity as more and more instances of terrorism are associated with radical religious groups. As a result, many tend to share many of the same feelings as those expressed by author Salman Rushdie in his article "Imagine There 's No Heaven." In his article, Rushdie explains to his readers the faults with religion and explains to them how religion itself is holding humankind back from achieving much greater. Authors like Akinfenwa Oluwaseun also share supporting views and provide important evidence that support Rushdie 's argument. In Oluwaseun 's article, "The Role of Religion in Modern Society: Masses Opium or Tool for Development," Oluwaseun examines several case studies involving religion and the development of society in certain areas, including many in Nigeria and its surrounding area. Upon examination, Oluwaseun concludes that Religion is actually harmful to society, and she explains further why. Other authors, like Peter J. Wilkinson and Samuel R. Weber, have different views on the subject. In Weber 's article, "Psychological Distress Among Religion Nonbelievers: A Systematic Review," he explains his findings involving several previously done studies upon the relationship of psychological health and religious belief, and concludes in his analysis of the studies that nonbelievers seem to undergo more

I will be writing my essay on innocence and experience to show how it relates to “Araby” by James Joyce. While reading the story, and what I’ve understood is that it’s a very depressing story about a young boy that is between 12 to 17 years of age who had his first experience in feeling loved and perhaps having a life alone. Later on in the story towards the end the experience will be very sad as we talk about it.

As a product of South Central Los Angeles the expectations bestowed upon me were less than remarkable. I grew up in a system of public schools where textbooks and classrooms where infested with graffiti and marker lines by students with no intention to learn. As a child growing up this kind of environment I did what I saw around me. Ignored my education and focused on making friends. Both my parents worked full time jobs so time spent with them was limited, I never cared much for reading or writing as a child, books where never a gift; more of a chore that was taking up time from my true interested. It was by these guidelines that I never saw the true magic behind literature until now a grown up.

The protagonist of every story is the hero of a journey, even if the path leads only into his own mind or into the realm of relationships. The way stations of the Hero's Journey emerge naturally even when the writer is unaware of them, but some knowledge of this most ancient guide to storytelling is useful in identifying problems and telling better stories. Christopher Volger condensed these seventeen stages into twelve stages in his book The Writer’s Journey. Here in observing the heroic journey Christopher Volger’s condensed model of 12 stages of heroic journey is followed illustrating each by utilizing the experiences of protagonist of the novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistressof

All stories consist of a few common structural elements found universally in myths, fairy tales, dreams, and movies. They are known collectively as The Hero’s Journey. Understanding these elements and their use in modern writing is the object of our quest. Used wisely, these ancient tools of the storytellers craft still have tremendous power to heal our people and make the world a better place (xxvii).

The book “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie is a book about a young boy named Haroun who embarks on a peculiar journey into a fantasy world called Kahani. The theme in this book is: storytelling has the power to change us in ways people can’t. This theme can be supported through various claims of evidence. Firstly, Haroun and his father were reading Soraya’s, Haroun’s mom departure note. That’s when Haroun's father said “Storytelling is the only work I know”(22). Haroun replied with “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true”(22). This quote is significant because it shows that Haroun doesn’t support his father's job and that he thinks storytelling is insignificant. This quote starts the main conflict in the story. This

Influential dialogue plays a major part in great stories Looking into the history of world literature, great storywriters use different elements in their stories to decorate paragraphs and convey messages to readers. We can always see beautiful use of words in marvelous literary works but we often miss out the importance of dialogues to stories – Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and Grace Paley’s “A Conversation with My Father” are both stories powered by dialogues and that tell us the use of dialogue can be very influential when interpreting the messages of writers. When it comes to interpreting the use of dialogues, it is of the uttermost importance the clearly state one thing - readers often confuse dialogues

Goals and working hard are often viewed as good, and are encouraged. However, one can also be trapped in a mindset, as Aylmer from “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the narrator from “Araby” by James Joyce are. Aylmer tries to control nature by having an “operation for the removal of the birthmark” (Hawthorne), on his wife’s cheek. The narrator from the story “Araby” has a huge crush on this girl and promises to buy something for her if he goes to Araby. Both characters are so focused on their missions that it impacts they way they think, and the way they act in every day situations.

James Joyce’s short stories “Araby” and “The Dead” both depict self-discovery as being defined by moments of epiphany. Both portray characters who experience similar emotions and who, at the ends of the stories, confront similarly harsh realities of self-discovery. In each of these stories, Joyce builds up to the moment of epiphany through a careful structure of events and emotions that leads both protagonists to a redefining moment of self-discovery.

Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer once stated, “Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.” This was a problem faced by Salman Rushdie. After years of suffering from writers block, he overcame his obstacles and published "Haroun and the Sea of Stories". It is not only a story for his son, but a proclamation of the triumph of the writer over the oppressive forces that sought to silence him. When read literally, the resolution of "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" is the defeat of Khattam-Shud as dictator. However, Rushdie’s true resolution is the conquest of freedom of speech over oppression. This is seen in how the characters’

“Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold-It can only be cherished” author unknown, portrays the theme of “In the South” by Salman Rushdie. “In the South” is a short story about two men who lived next door to each other, spent a lot of time with each other, and shared a lot of similar qualities. Senior and Junior have a unique relationship. Senior is from a big family and Junior from an average sized family, and Senior lost most of the people closest to him. This caused Senior, the main character, to take people for granted until they were gone, and the author displays this by using symbolism, figurative language, and tone.

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows the maturation of Amir, a boy from Afghanistan, as he discovers what it means to stand up for what he believes in. His quest to redeem himself after betraying his friend and brother, Hassan, makes up the heart of the novel. When Amir hears that his father’s old business partner, Rahim Khan, is sick and dying, he travels to Pakistan to say his goodbyes. Rahim Khan tells Amir about Hassan’s life and eventual death; the Taliban murdered Hassan while he was living in Amir’s childhood home. As his dying wish, Rahim Khan asks Amir to rescue Hassan’s son, Sohrab, from an orphanage in Afghanistan. Although Amir refuses at first, he thinks about what Rahim Khan had always told him: “There is a way to be

To many people stories are just a way to pass time, to escape from reality, that they do not serve any real purpose. However in Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie If there are no stories then many of the characters lives would be changed drastically