Political Views In Haroun and The Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie wrote Haroun and The Sea of Stories, during the long period of exile and hiding that followed a 1988 contract (fatwah) put out against him by the Ajatollah-Khomeini. Rather than succeeding in his death, the fatwah served to make him the most famous living author in the world. Written as a long distance message to his then young son, Haroun and The Sea of Stories is about on the man's struggle to overcome cultural diversity, freedom of speech, and censorship. ... This "free" society is represented in Haroun by the Guppee...

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Salman Rushdie was so privileged as to receive a fatwa from the fundamentalist Islamic world because of his writing just a few years before the publication of Haroun and the Sea of Stories. ... This was his first publication since the release of The Satanic Verses, which was the spark that set off the Islamic world, and it therefore holds significant relevance to his crisis. ... With this introduction to the water genie, and the fantastical world from whence he came, Haroun simply observed it as a normal and continued to narrate a story of flying birds, far off worlds, and story water. ......

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This phrase is from Ernest Hemingway's fictional novel The Old Man and the Sea. ... Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea uses literary devices to make it a marvelous read and an outstanding piece of literature. ... In The Old Man and the Sea the book itself is a symbol. It is a symbol for the human condition, the struggle to survive and maintain one's dignity in an often unkind and heartless world. ... "A man is never lost at sea." is an example of a metaphor used in this novel. ...

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The hero of the novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," by Salman Rushdie, is in fact Haroun himself. ... Some of Haroun's major heroic actions are that he stands up to Khattam-Shud, he risks his life for his friends and for the Ocean of Stories, and he wishes for Kahaani to spin, thus bringing peace to the world of Kahaani. ... Haroun voluntarily going to the Ancient Zone, or Source of Stories in order to protect the Sea of Stories, shows Haroun's heroic nature. ... Even though Haroun only recently came to Kahani, he absolutely loves the Sea of Stories and he thinks that it is possib...

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"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" Throughout life there are many things that change or influence our lifestyle. ... They realized that there are people different from them in the world and that Esteban was one of them. ... After all, it was rare to have visitors in the village from the outside world that is why Esteban had such an impact. ... "They could see him in life, condemned to going throughout doors sideways, cracking his head on crossbeams, remaining on his feet during visits, not knowing what to do with his soft pink sea lion hands while the lady of t...

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A major similarity between Edna and the man by the sea is that they are both experiencing a rebirth or an awakening. ... Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her." When discussing Edna's awakening, Chopin often makes references to the sea, a recurring motif in the story that is symbolic of baptism or rebirth. ... Although not stated, it is clear that the man by the sea, like Edna, is also undergoing a major change. ... The naked man incorporates the important mot...

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A major similarity between Edna and the man by the sea is that they are both experiencing a rebirth or an awakening. ... Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her." When discussing Edna's awakening, Chopin often makes references to the sea, a recurring motif in the story that is symbolic of baptism or rebirth. ... Although not stated, it is clear that the man by the sea, like Edna, is also undergoing a major change. ... The naked man incorporates the important mot...

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In this novel, the main character was a nineteen-year-old ambulance driver in World War I. ... The main character's life was based on that of Hemingway and his World War I experiences. ... Earnest Hemingway's final novel was The Old Man in the Sea, which he wrote in 1950. ... The theme of The Old Man and the Sea is, "A man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated"(Oliver 83). ... Critics liked The Old Man and the Sea and printed the "novella" in Life Magazine. ...

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Another idea of the caged birds is that Edna and Madame Reisz are incapable of communication with the world. ... There are many different accounts in the book when water is significant, from the Gulf which Edna learned to swim to her final demise in the Sea. ... But when she was there beside the sea, absolutely alone, she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her, and for the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her, and the waves that invited her. ... She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a f...

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From the Black sea to the eerie streets of Transylvania Bram Stoker has not let us down with his exotic settings. The characters in this novel are each of a very educated back round and all with a different type of personality that has intrigued readers around the world of decades. ...

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The environment is unspoilt to symbolise man kind's struggles in a perfect world of nature. In the beginning of the novel Ralph gazes out over the beach in the direction of a "coral reef" and past that, the "dark blue" of the "open sea." ... Golding has portrayed a dark forest, which represents danger, a sunny shimmering bay which represents excitement and an extensive open sea which represents remoteness. ...

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After making the fire on the mountain, the boys watched "Smoke rising a flash of fire appeared at the root of one wisp, and then the smoke thickened Acres of black and yellow smoke rolled steadily toward the sea. ... While the "smoke rolled steadily towards the sea " the order on the island began to fade away with it. ... Ralph has been trying to make a small civil fire to try and get the attention of the outside world, but nothing has succeeded. ... It is ironic that under a controlled and civil society, the boys tried for so long to get the attention of the outside world, but never succeede...

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Her little contact with the outside world is what intrigues her, the novels smuggled in or the sound of a distant cab rolling along the streets. ... She also found interest in the sea but only because it was stormy. ...

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In the novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe illustrates the contradictions that drench the thoughts and actions of man as he strives to reach for God while also forced to face the realization that he must ensure his own safety in the world. Defoe uses Crusoe's journey on the canoe to exemplify how Crusoe lives in a world where he longs to please and obey God but must also contend with his instinct, which looks to himself for his savior. In the passage in which Crusoe finally reaches land after a tumultuous experience at sea in his canoe, Crusoe falls to his "knees and gave God Thanks...

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Life Is A Dream Response To The Awakening "The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting, the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation."" ... The sea, the people, the atmosphere in general all gave way to Edna Pontellier's "awakenings."" ... When Edna says this, one may think that she has finally 'awakened,' and now sees her place in a world. ...

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Beth owns the house and people from all over the world come to visit it. ... That was the fact that the author kept on discussing the sea. I really don't know why, but for a few chapters, it was mainly about the sea. ...

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"Then we came down to the sea, and it was done." ... He wanted to portray the world as it actually exists, without fantastic or imaginary alteration. The aim of using realism in writing is to create characters and situations that could exist in the real world, and to depict human situations the way they might really happen. ...

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Rufus was an African American seized by the world's battles and intolerance. ... Rufus had fallen so low in his world that he believed nothing of his pertained to him any longer. ... Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... Theme: The theme Another Country conveys is lucid: People must witness the world with incontestable viewpoints. Perceiving the world from a negative standpoint w...

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Sea side we came the rumble of a distant stream [...] ... Other qualities that best depict the bourgeois world Efrain are his way of thinking to observe and categorize what they see and experience. Maria is a novel of romance in Latin America on strong and impossible love of youth in a patriarchal world. ...

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The novel Rebecca is set mostly in a large but old mansion by the name of Manderley, which is by the sea and owned by a rich inheritor named Maxim De Winter. ... The narrator is described as being childlike and very nave on the ways of the world. ... He also discusses the reason he'd never divorce Rebecca, he says "She knew I would sacrifice pride, honor and personal feelings, every damned quality on earth, rather than stand before our little world after a week of marriage and have them know the things about her that she told me then. ...

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The subjects of the novels were not Greek or Roman gods, nor knights or clowns but people from their own times and their own worlds. 18th century novelists chose sea-men, doctors, maids and even prostitutes and highwaymen as their chief characters but it was rare to find a duke or a knight being the hero of any novel. ...

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He successfully escapes and survives, but Icarus meets his death because he does not heed to warnings concerning the height at which he flies; consequently, when he soars too close to the sun, the wax holding his wings together melts, and he plummets into the sea. ... The protagonist overcomes the filial, social, educational and religious constraints that once prevented him from venturing into the world and living his life at his own discretion. ...

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Kate Chopin's The Awakening "Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life" ("Kate" 1). These words and way of thinking were uncommon and far ahead of this time period. Kate Chopin not only said this quote but meditated and reflect...

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