In the story of Haroun, the mood is set as a sad one.This is because it says in the first sentence ‘, a sad city, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name. ‘ meaning the city is not a great place to live in. In addition to this it also states, ‘in which sadness was actually manufactured’ the author is using personification to give the reader/s more detail, humour and a better explanation of what is happening in the first paragraph. It also says soon after that, ‘(maybe the sadness of the city finally crept in through their windows)’, this is also an example of personification because it says crept in through their windows and.
Haroun and his family had been the only happy family in the city if not country.This was because of him and his family being very happy because his dad is a very happy story teller and a his mum is a very happy singer which keeps their family happy.This is why haroun and his family are so happy (compared to everyone else) in the city of Alifbay. On the other hand, later on his mum leaves… What will happen next?????…….
Salman Rushdie uses a type of fairy- tale beginning to start us off for the upcoming events.’there was once’ is what he starts us off with. Usually in a fairy tale you start it with ‘once upon a time’ or ‘there was once’ or even ‘in a land far far away’ this is because when one person starts something cool you tend to copy it to make yours even better.This is why the author ‘Salman Rushdie’ uses ‘ there was once ‘… As a beginning.
In addition to my first paragraph, it states that Rashid has two different names one being the ‘ocean of notions’ and the other being ‘the shah of blah’.you probably would have thought that he would have no rivals before you complete the first few pages. But this is only because of his explanation.
April 14, 2015 at 8:02 am
You have just achieve your Discovery badge – Well Done!
I also like the way that you have explored the purpose of the opening of the story, comparing this to other fairy tales and children’s stories. I’m sure that you have made contributions to our discussions on intertextuality, but you haven’t quite explored it fully here.
You will achieve the Literary Essay or This is Novel Badge if you complete the following targets:
1) Think about audience and purpose – this is an essay that should answer the question in the title and explore the use of language (avoid phrases like ‘what will happen next)
2) Give your piece a clearer ending that draws your argument to a close
3)Aim to re-draft at least one paragraph in order to achieve the Perfect Paragraph badge
http://achieve.community.edutronic.net/stage-one-writing/perfect-paragraph/
How will you meet this criteria?
You should aim to re-read and edit sentence length and spelling throughout your essay.