Haroun ~ week 2
- juliafurst
- Oct 10, 2017
- 2 min read
I genuinely enjoy this story and It gets better the more I read it. It portrays a real moral into a completely fantasized story. Which brings me to the discussion we had on our views of Haroun and the sea of stories. I was intrigued by a question that asked, how the format may have affected the overall impact of the story. It got me thinking, if the story was written in first person rather than third person omniscient or written in letter format rather then the standard format, would my opinions have changed, and if so drastically or not much. If we were able to look into the mind of Haroun and given an insight into his thoughts and emotions, I think I would have had understood some parts that were a bit confusing. One part that confused me was at the end of the book was when after the entire book and conflict pretty started by Harouns mom, they welcomed her back home pretty easily and I wonder what Harouns thoughts were on this.
Chapters 6 through 8 have deepened my connections and thoughts on Hauroun as an Allegory. Personally, I can see a deep connection between the events of the Fatwa and Rushdie and the events in the book with Haroun and the people of Chup. Both the fictional, Khattam-Shud, and the very real Fatwa play antagonistic roles who advocate in ways for silence. For the Khattam-Shud silence is more transparent, while for the Fatwa silence is just a action put upon Rushdie because of there differing of opinions on the Satanic Versus.
This section of the book also explored the underlying question that has been lingering over the story the entire time and that is "what is the point of telling stories that aren't even true?". In the story untrue stories are important because they bring happiness and joy like how they brought joy to the glum city. Although I do think they bring joy, I think there is a deeper purpose. They bring joy because they allow people to escape their lives and their minds travel to a different world.
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