Haroun And The Sea Of Stories

Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a book written by Salmon Rushdie, a British Indian novelist. Throughout the story though many parts are described explicitly, such as, “Silence is often considered rude.” (85). There are also many pieces that are described implicitly, like how Haroun is feeling from time to time. The whole story is revolved around the bits and pieces of explicit and implicit details, but Haroun and the Sea of Stories overall can be described as one big implicit detail, that since Haroun’s mother left, this was all just a dream.

Haroun lived a good life, with a happy family in the sad city. His father, Rashid told stories, “Whose cheerfulness was famous throughout that unhappy metrepolish” (15). Though many loved the stories Rashid told, Mr.Sengupta, the man who lived upstairs, never found a point in them. As the story goes on Mr.Sengupta runs away with Haroun’s mother. The sad city gets just a little bit sadder when the leaving …show more content…
Haroun was placed in a situation where he had to not only deal with the his own sadness but his fathers as well. Naturally, Haroun had an instant dislike for Mr.Sengupta. We can all implicitly infer that he would want to “completely finish” the man his mother ran away with. Towards the end of the book we discover that “Mr. Sengupta is Khattam-shud.” (210) As defined in the back of the book, Khattam-shud means to ‘completely finish’, ‘over and done with’. Along with that we also find out that Mr. Butt is just a toy when Haroun awakes. It is natural for young children to rely on toys as friends when they go through issues in their life. These two details put together can help us to infer that young Haroun had a dream that included his father getting his stories back, his favorite toy, the finishing of the man his mother ran away with. All of these things are what would have made Haroun gain a happy