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This 3 page paper analyzes the development of the theme in the children’s book “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie, and the presentation of setting in “The Hours” by Michael Cunningham. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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for example, Edgar Allan Poe uses terror to make us cringe and Shakespeare uses language to move us deeply. This paper considers two books, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
by Salman Rushdie and The Hours by Michael Cunningham; it looks at the development of the theme in the first, and the presentation of the setting in the second. Discussion
Haroun: We want to consider the theme of this book, because its delightful and sweet and yet something we rarely consider: the importance of storytelling in our lives. Haroun is
a childrens book that Rushdie wrote the year after he went into hiding, and its light tone and cheerful, even nonsensical fun is quite at odds with his desperate situation.
The book is filled with wonderful characters with names like Iff the water-genie and the rhyming fish Bagha and Goopy; the title character Haroun is a 14-year old boy whose
father, Rashid Khalifa, is a renowned storyteller (Rushdie, 1990). They live in a city so sad its forgotten its name, and where factories actually manufacture sadness and send it all
over the world (Rushdie, 1990). Khalifa and his stories are a bright spot in this awful sadness and the family is quite happy: "Except that one day Haroun asked
one question too many, and then all hell broke loose" (Rusdie, 1990, p. 8). The question he asked was one he heard earlier and repeated to his father: "What the
use of stories that arent even true?" (Rushdie, 1990, p. 10). Its finding the answer to that question that sends Haroun on his wild adventures to the Earths second moon
Kahani, which is kept invisible by P2C2E (Processes Too Complicated to Explain) (Rushdie, 1990). Here Haroun learns that his father gets his tales from the Sea of Stories, which overflows
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