Literary Usage in Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie Essay

Throughout Haroun and the ocean of Stories, Salman Rushdie provides a fundamental, yet obscure variety of literary usage. These instances of literary usage provide and framework of retain for the text which is to follow and to further accentuate the smaller and unnoticeable details of the story in to vital parts which are necessary for conk out comprehension and understanding of the subject matter of the upcoming events. Symbolism is the most usually used and most imperative literary device used by Rushdie. With the land of Chup, on the dark perspective of Kahani?This looks like the doing of the leader of the Chupwalas, the frenzy master of Bezaban.(H.S.S. Pg 75) This statement from the text has a very symbolic meaning behind it, both in terms of the society featured in the book and of reality during the time, the book was written. This statement is symbolic in the valuate that it is a statement, which confirms the presence of the antagonist and the force that is being oppos ed. The story states that Haroun has traveled to a world in a seemingly other dimension, cognise as Kahani where there are a pack known as the Guppees, from the land of Gup who are very talkative and have a expectant amount of passion toward speech and words. However, the Chupwalas in the land of Chup are a people who live completely in the darkness, and do not direct as often or at all. It is symbolized as a spicy place where sadness dwells in the hearts of every citizen. The leader of the Chupwalas, is symbolized as the ?evil? character or antagonist in the book and he is the reason which the protagonist of the story, Haroun, and the Gup, who are symbolized as ?good?, must iron out back the evil of the cult master. The presence of a dark side of Gup itself is symbolic by itse... ...ard the other through mis education or no information at all. This is also same within a single society. A person may put up mental barriers against other people or information on others, and th ey may judge others even though they have never met or even seen them before. In the book thereof far, this metaphorical concept of a wall, has been the single reason for war among the Chup and the Gup. If they had not created this both mental and physical barrier between apiece(prenominal) other, cultural diffusion would have solved the problem of understanding whom each of the society?s are and how they function. It would have also given both societies a chance to gain a better understanding of the usance of the other side of Kahani, therefore creating more tolerance toward each other. Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Delhi Penguin, 1990. Second paperback edition 1996.