Amna Aslam
Ms.Forrester
English 12H
16 May 2016 Research Paper Where there seems to be light, there seems to be a shadow. In every book the conflict is between those who are said to be “good” and those who are “evil”. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Rushdie paints a picture that utilizes imagery and symbolism to grasp the reader’s attention. Imagery is one of the most important aspects in the book.It influences the plot and the setting.Rushdie paints a world full of color. Yet, he also paints a dull world where everything is darker.An example would be where Rushdie states" the Streams of Story…each colored strand represented and contained a single tale…all the stories that had ever been told and many that were in the process of being invented could be found here" (Rushdie 72). The world he has painted is beautiful yet dull. There is black and white imagery in the book. When Princess Batcheat goes to the Twilight strip to see the see stars, moon and the Earth, the reader finds out that Gups are very use to seeing the sunlight and sometimes they crave to see the darkness. While she was in the Strip , it is known she is kidnapped by the Chupwalas, who live in the dark and never get to see the light. However they are capable of kidnapping an …show more content…
The people need to stories in the society because without them they had no stories to speak of. Rushdie says “Unlike a library of books, The Ocean of the Streams of Stories was much more than a storeroom of yarns, it was not dead but alive”(72). The Ocean of Streams of Stories symbolises the human brain. The streams and currents of ideas flow and derive themselves just like the human thought process. Humans brain storm from ideas, which are already incorporated within them. The stories evolve from one another which seems to be another way of “brainstorming new
Ms.Forrester
English 12H
16 May 2016 Research Paper Where there seems to be light, there seems to be a shadow. In every book the conflict is between those who are said to be “good” and those who are “evil”. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Rushdie paints a picture that utilizes imagery and symbolism to grasp the reader’s attention. Imagery is one of the most important aspects in the book.It influences the plot and the setting.Rushdie paints a world full of color. Yet, he also paints a dull world where everything is darker.An example would be where Rushdie states" the Streams of Story…each colored strand represented and contained a single tale…all the stories that had ever been told and many that were in the process of being invented could be found here" (Rushdie 72). The world he has painted is beautiful yet dull. There is black and white imagery in the book. When Princess Batcheat goes to the Twilight strip to see the see stars, moon and the Earth, the reader finds out that Gups are very use to seeing the sunlight and sometimes they crave to see the darkness. While she was in the Strip , it is known she is kidnapped by the Chupwalas, who live in the dark and never get to see the light. However they are capable of kidnapping an …show more content…
The people need to stories in the society because without them they had no stories to speak of. Rushdie says “Unlike a library of books, The Ocean of the Streams of Stories was much more than a storeroom of yarns, it was not dead but alive”(72). The Ocean of Streams of Stories symbolises the human brain. The streams and currents of ideas flow and derive themselves just like the human thought process. Humans brain storm from ideas, which are already incorporated within them. The stories evolve from one another which seems to be another way of “brainstorming new