Taking a closer read at Haroun and the Sea of Stories

The viewpoint of the world that the narrator has, completely alters as certain events take place throughout the story. His outlook on nature transforms into a wholly different standpoint as the story progresses. As his tale begins, the narrator sees himself as a tough guy or “bad character”. He believes he is invincible. There is nobody as cool as he

From this point, he concludes that literature is concerned with symbolic action, that literary or mythological characters are typical, and that the world of poet imagery is “totally symbolic” (p. 75). He then moves to the principle of “literature as a whole” (p. 49): “you don’t just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms a part” (p. 69). Hence there is a progressive element in the study and teaching of literature: as we read more works, we become able to generalize from our experience of literature.

Let’s talk about the world about 2,000 years ago. It was a world where the mass of people were illiterate, taxes were extremely high, and the leaders would cheat and kill to feed their ever growing need for power. We all can relate to having a good storyteller in our lives, most were read to at night by their parents or are parents themselves that read to their children. What is the purpose of storytelling? It’s simple, comfort. A good story can ease your psychological unrest as well as offer a moral purpose. Sometimes you can even relate a story to your own life and offer an explanation to something you may be experiencing. This is exactly what the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were. They told their stories of Jesus to offer comfort to their people in a time when people could not pick up a story and read it themselves. It is part of human nature to have the desire for a good story. This paper will describe several events that were written by great storytellers in the bible.

Describe an important relationship in the text and explain the effect of that relationship on characters, events and ideas in the book.

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

Also, the other question every critic must consider is what the story means. The only real consensus on this point is that the exact meaning of the story is not possible. There is even a question by some as to whether the story is meant to have an exact meaning. Yet, many critics also agree it is the discussion the story encourages which gives it much of its value rather than a complete understanding. The primary concern was the

Near the end of the novel the narrator realises the limitations in the depiction of character and event:

Every reader will have his or her own interpretation of the story. Although not everyone will share the same

Most of us have experienced storytelling in one way or another. This act takes place everywhere and appears to have an importance to many people. Storytelling has become a tradition for many families, which has raised the question: how is storytelling important in our lives? It makes sense that someone would question why we repeat such a basic task for generations. This question is unique because everyone has their own answer. One of these answers that I think stands out the most takes the form of a book and it is Salmon Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea Of Stories. I can only describe this book as Rushdie's answer to that question mixed into the plot of a fairy tale. While the plot I found to be very predictable, I was surprised to find what the

A) What makes these stories both potent and timeless, is their ability to illustrate moral truths and life lessons, such as vanity, overcoming obstacles in life, spiritual growth, and values, through the use of metaphors. In doing so, these stories enable people to learn a thing or two about themselves, such as aspirations and trepidation's. These stories have become successful at staying vivacious, despite times progression and the growth of diverse societies, by virtue of those retelling these primordial tales.

Faced with the necessity to establish their works to a vast universal readership, African authors are imposed to connect their worldviews in English which frequently does not fully express African culture and society. To manage this dilemma, African authors use a variety of different writing techniques to portray the facets of African traditions.Code-switching as a writing technique. Code switching is used to indicate meaning in assertion text. African writers use them to convey a certain goal in the everyday life of the Africans. They use the most frequent form of code-switching which is the native language and English. The use of native words is due to African authors and their inability to fully convey their culture in English. In the

Joseph Stalin, Kim Jong Un, Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler are examples of the most known dictators today. All of them used similar tactics to isolate and control their citizens from the outside world. The main antagonist of Rushdie’s novel and leader of the Chupwalas, Khattum-Shud, is an extremely power hungry dictator with high demand. Both Khattum Shud and these famous dictators use related ways to fully take authority over their own citizens. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie uses allegories to elucidate how dictators take advantage of censorship to control people.

Intertwined in this novel was an aspect of realism. Realism appears to me as the way of life without change. Anyone who writes realistically does not care about others responses, they use facts, and absolutes do not worry them. Realistic writers believe that this ordinary world we live in will stay as it appears for many years

This book represents a celebration of unity in which it is proven by Atreyu and Bastian who set the stage and begins what has to be begun.  Bastian plays the role of a heroic human being in a human world reading nothing but a book called The Neverending Story while Atreyu characterizes an immortal hero living out struggles inside the book.  Their separate worlds are furnished together to bring a united conclusion, but with the reality and truth of their past, they are again separated; but in a resolving mood.  This coming together of reality and fiction associates with the reader’s mind because it justifies and gives a reason to connect with The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.  Thus, this book deserves to be a significant part of the canon because it deepens the realistic illusion that stories come from other stories, it is identical in many ways to the monomyth cycle (by Joseph Campbell), and finally it reminds the reader of the need of belonging and love.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a children’s novel, written by Salman Rushdie, who is one of the prominent authors of magical realism in English literature. The novel brings together real world elements and features of magic or the supernatural. Using elements of literature such as made-up words and rhyming throughout Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Rushdie showcases why he is a distinguished author of magical realism. (Warnes)