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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a children's fantasy novel by Salman Rushdie. Haroun Khalifa lives with his parents, Rashid and Soraya, in a city so sad it has forgotten its name. Haroun, however, is happy — until one day his mother runs away with their neighbour. This event devastates Haroun, who develops a kind of ADHD as a result. Even worse is the effect on his father: Rashid, formerly a storyteller of seemingly boundless imagination, suddenly finds himself unable to spin his marvelous tales.Haroun and Rashid travel to the Valley of K, where Rashid is supposed to speak at a major political rally. The night before the performance, Haroun catches a magical creature in his father's bathroom who has come to disconnect Rashid's supply of Story Water. Haroun, insisting that his father still needs his stories, blackmails the creature into taking him back to the magical world of Kahani, where he hopes to plead for Rashid to be reconnected. However, when he arrives, he finds that the Ocean of the Streams of Story, where all stories come from, has become polluted. Haroun must now work not only to restore his father's Gift of the Gab, but to save the Sea of Stories from being destroyed forever.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Typical of Rushdie's books, Haroun and the Sea of Stories is chock-full of satire and social commentary. However, unlike his adult novels, it takes a decidedly optimistic and idealistic tone. This is probably because it was written for children. | |
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Astral Projection: Rashid uses a form of this to get to Kahani, though he winds up near the Twilight Strip, leading the citizens of Gup to think he's a spy. | |
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Applicability: Invoked in universe. At the end of the novel, Rashid tells a crowd at a political rally the story of Haroun's adventures on Kahani. The listeners see the tale as an allegory for their own situation, and so inspired by it that they rise up and run a corrupt politician out of town. Of course, the story Rashid tells isn't an allegory for anything; it's simply a truthfull recounting of the previous night's events. But it clearly has applicability for the people who hear it. | |
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And You Were There: Most of the things and people Haroun encounters on Kahani seem to be somehow "based on" or "inspired by" people and ideas from the real world. Lampshaded by Butt the Hoopoe when he reads Haroun's thoughts on how similar he and Butt the Mail Coach Driver are: "I can't help it if I remind you of someone." Also Lampshaded by Khattam-Shud. Haroun thinks he's Mr. Sengupta, but Khattam-Shud finds the notion insulting and that "Stories have warped the boy's brain". | |
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All Just a Dream: It's at first implied that the trip to Kahani may have been this, though the balance of the evidence seems to be against it. | |
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