![]() ![]() It will be interesting, therefore, to consider how Haroun offers its own simplified version of Rushdie's recurrent themes. In this respect, Haroun may also be compared with Gulliver 's Travels, a fiction which is both available to a contextualized, ‘local’ decoding in terms of eighteenth-century political personalities and events but also floats free of this encumbrance on a sea of its own, a mythical, magical, and dehistoricized account of human behaviour that retains nevertheless an important moral dimension. Haroun is also a story about story itself, about the need and the capacity of human beings to communicate with each other, across time and across cultures – and despite whatever other obstacles may be put in their way. ![]() But obviously this reading, while legitimate (even inevitable), risks being reductive. Because the climate in Chup is so cold, all of the soldiers are issued nosewarmers black for the Chupwala army and red for The Pages of Gup. ![]() He is given a wish-drink so that he can take the. Haroun and the Sea of Stories Summary and Analysis of Chapters 11-12 Summary Chapter 11 The narrator of the story quickly tells of all the events that happen during the war. The Water-Genie shows him the different stories, and how they are constantly changing. A glossary lists names that ‘have been derived from Hindustani words’, and Bezaban is given as ‘Without-a-Tongue’ ( HSS 217). The Sea of Stories is a beautiful place, full of colors. The details of the coded reading may easily be sketched out: the separation of the family, the attack on free speech (‘the greatest Power of all ’ ( HSS 119)) by Khattam-Shud, the embodiment of silence and negation the sinister power of Bezaban, the idol of black ice. Rushdie told James Fenton, in interview, that he had promised his son ‘the next book I wrote would be one he might enjoy reading’. ![]()
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