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Haroun and the Sea of Stories compared to The Wizard of Oz.

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories compared to The Wizard of Oz.

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From Rushdie's writings and interviews, it is known that The Wizard of Oz was influential to the story of Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Haroun and Oz are actually very similar story-wise. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Rashid loses his wife and his ability to tell stories while in the movie, Dorothy loses Toto, and while searching for their respective losses they are sent to fantastical worlds. They then both meet the friendly people of these fantastical worlds who send them on a quest to save the world from the antagonist. The protagonists meet new friends and defeats the antagonist. The ending of the two stories is where they differ though. Rushdie stated that he fervently dislikes the ending of The Wizard of Oz because it makes no sense why Dorothy would ever want to go home because Oz is so much better than Kansas, so in his book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Rushdie changes the ending, so the sad place Haroun goes back to becomes happy, making the ending much more realistic.

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"a note written by Blabbermouth and signed by her, and by all his friends from the Moon Kahini" (204)

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"a note written by Blabbermouth and signed by her, and by all his friends from the Moon Kahini" (204)

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This quote comes when Haroun wakes up at the Arabian Nights plus one and discovers that he was left a note from all his friends on the fantastical Moon of Kahini. This final quote confirms that magic is in fact real because there is proof of it in the real world.

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"This is the beauty of the wonder tale and its descendant, fiction: that one can simultaneously know that the story is a work of imagination, which is to say untrue, and believe it to contain profound truth." (An excerpt from Salman Rushdie's essay, Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love)

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"This is the beauty of the wonder tale and its descendant, fiction: that one can simultaneously know that the story is a work of imagination, which is to say untrue, and believe it to contain profound truth." (An excerpt from Salman Rushdie's essay, Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love)

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What Rushdie means when he says this is that even wonder tales and completely fictitious stories have a basis in reality because of the message they convey. For example, in the tortoise and the hare, it is clearly unrealistic that two animals would have a race, but the realistic part of the story is the moral, and the moral of this story is you can be more successful by doing things slowly and steadily than by acting quickly and carelessly.

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", this isn't the "real world", not at all.' 'oh isn't it?' Blabbermouth shot back. 'That's the trouble with you sad city types: you think a place has to be dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.'" (114)

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", this isn't the "real world", not at all.' 'oh isn't it?' Blabbermouth shot back. 'That's the trouble with you sad city types: you think a place has to be dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.'" (114)

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The context of this quote is when Haroun calls Moon Kahini not real. Blabbermouth quickly retorts that this is all real, which makes the reader question what is actually the real world in this book. It also furthers the readers' beliefs about magic, because if Kahini is real then magic is real.

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"It wasn't only a story, after all" (50)

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"It wasn't only a story, after all" (50)

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This quote comes from when Haroun, Rashid, and Snooty Buttoo embark out into the dull lake and encounter the mist of Misery. This is the first encounter with magic in the entire book in the "real" world, and this quote is so important because it plants a seed in the reader's mind about magic and if it is real or not.

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Though we did discuss it in class, I feel that we did not go into very much depth about the parallel characters, Mr. Sengupta and Khattam-Shud. Both steal happiness, whether that be from Haroun or from the entire city of Gup; Both "kidnap" a woman who are important in the characters' lives, Soraya, and Batcheat; and both are not seen again after they are dumped or killed.

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The Moon of Kahini and the City of Kahini are two very similar places, they even have the same name. When the reader is introduced to these places both Kahinis are drowning in sadness, but through Haroun's heroics and bravery, they are turned into happy places and are changed forever. In the city that change is the happiness rain which helps them re-discover their name, and on the moon the evil cult is destroyed and the relationship between the two cities is repaired leading them to a much happier and more peaceful place.

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"He knew what he knew: the real world was full of magic, so magical stories could easily be real."

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"He knew what he knew: the real world was full of magic, so magical stories could easily be real."