Haroun and the Sea of Stories

crucial role in a part of people’s lives. Story telling is a critical part of a politician’s likelihood in the novel since they rely on the storytellers to persuade and convince people to vote for them. Soraya was an important part of Rashid and Haroun’s life. They were all a family until she ran with Mr. Sengupta that’s when the family got taken apart. Story telling is a crucial part of Rashid’s life. He likes telling magical stories to

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

famously known for the allegories used in his novel, Haroun And The Sea Of Stories. It is about a young child by the name of haroun , who goes on an adventure to help his father Rashid to tell stories again. On this adventure haroun is faced with mystical places, situations and people all throughout the book. This gives the novel a light hearted ,childish tone. You could almost say the book was written by a child. Even “as both a bedtime story for his son and as an allegorical response to his situation”

storytelling but one day he loses his ability to craft stories the way he once did. This all happens after his wife leaves him and his son questions the importance of his stories. Now both him and his son try to find a way to get his ability back. In “The Shah of Blah” by Salman Rushdie the diction used throughout the story conveys the emotions of the characters in the story and this paper will be showing Rushdie does this this is done and how it affects the story. Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India on

this passage broak my heart. In The Neverending Story atreyu’s horse and friend Artax drowns in the swamp of sadness. the movie “shows a split view of the horses owner atreyu and bastian.Both have tears streaming down their face, Bastian blows his nose on his handkerchief. Bastian turns the page” (Michael Ende 3).”Artax was such a sweet horse I was so sad when he died. In the book Haroun and The Sea of Stories, Haroun lives in the sad city where all people are sad and factories pour

protagonist/antagonist story. The stories antagonists (Khattam-Shud and Mr.Sengupta) are against stories and believe that there are more important things than imagination. While some would say these are your standard "villains" I see them as a representation of those questioning why storytelling is a thing. Rushdie suggests that these people are all the same (as in share the same views) when Haroun mistakes the cult master for his neighbor only on the basis that both hate stories. Salmon Rushdie also

is the most important part of any story, it is the central idea and moral of the story. Haroun and the sea of stories is a fictional story by salman rushdie. The story follows a young boy, Haroun, on his adventures in a fantasy world to save his dad's stories. The overall theme in this book is, freedom of speech is very powerful and should be used. This theme is exhibited through the story by the freedom in Gup City, haroun's persistence to save his father's stories, and events from Rushdie's personal

making a boy recognize right from wrong. The author of In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway, cleverly uses short stories to create Nick Adams, a fictional character whose life is analogous to Hemingway himself. Salman Rushdie also writes in parallel to his situations. However, he uses a different approach in his writing style to show the adventure of the protagonist in Haroun and the Sea Of Stories. The authors share common themes, which is failed marriages and the absence of a mother. Through analysis

been lost. Once the Chupwalas went to fight the Gups, Haroun witnessed this for himself. He saw the lack of trust amongst the dark warriors. (61) “Outside, in the living room, his mother had begun to sing” (Rushdie, 211). The stroy had began with Hashid, his wife Soraya who loved to sing, and son Haroun, all in perfect balance. The day Soraya had stopped singing had foreshadowed the event s to follow. Soraya leaves, leaving Hashid and Haroun disoriented. However, at the end of the stroy, her return

People do not always turn out to look or sound how a person would expect. Rushdie examines this idea through irony. Rushdie uses irony to show his son that people do not always turn out the way you would expect. Rushdie uses the irony of Batcheat’s image to teach his son important lessons about making assumptions about people. Rashid Khalifa was caught as a spy but is now explaining what he saw when he saw Batcheat get kidnapped. “‘I was struggling through the tangles of thorn-bushes towards the