He is told that if he does not come up with his usual fund of tales, his tongue will be cut out. After this, Rashid loses confidence in his powers of story-telling, haunted by his son’s question: “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” Rashid is due to speak at a political rally to be held by the sinister politician, Snooty Buttoo. Feeling neglected, his wife is persuaded to leave him and run away with a neighbour. Haroun’s father, Rashid, the Shah of Blah, is a professional and gifted story-teller, a popular figure much in demand at public events.
In a make-believe world, based loosely on Bombay and Kashmir, the story of Haroun is a tale of a fight between the free imagination and the powers that oppose it. Haroun’s mother returns to Rashid, and the family is whole once again.Instrumentation 3(picc)2, 3(bcl),3(cbsn) 4231 t,p(3),pf,hp,str Year 2001 Duration 120:00 Composed 12/1969 - Commission Mary Sharp Cronson The Walrus manufactures a happy ending for Haroun’s city, which remembers its name: Kahani. Haroun wishes for his city to become happy again. The idol of Bezaban topples from a tower and lands on Khattam-Shud during an earthquake, killing him.Īfterward, Haroun meets with a man named The Walrus, who grants him one wish. When the sun rises on the dark land of Chup, it melts the shadows away. He uses a substance called Wishwater-given to him by Iff-to wish for the sun to rise.
Haroun manages to help destroy the machinery that was going to plug the Wellspring. Khattam-Shud forbids free speech and has enacted a series of decrees called the Silence Laws, which forbid his people from speaking. Haroun learns that Khattam-Shud has a plan to plug the hole that produces the currents of stories. The Sea of Stories is under threat by an evil ruler, Khattam-Shud, whose name means “The End.” Iff travels with Haroun to Kahani, a fictional moon of earth that contains the Sea of Stories-the source of all stories and creativity. Rashid was a subscriber to a storytelling service, and Iff has disconnected it. That night, Haroun learns something disturbing-a water genie named Iff has taken his father’s storytelling gift. Shortly after, Rashid finds that he has run out of stories to tell. In the first chapter, Haroun’s mother leaves her husband for a man named Mr. Haroun’s father, Rashid, is a celebrated storyteller known for his ability to entertain, instruct, and persuade crowds on behalf of politicians. Haroun lives with his parents in a city that is so sad it no longer remembers its name. The novel begins with a young boy named Haroun Khalifa.
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