Haroun and the Sea of Stories

• Blog – Why is this a story we should end the semester on?

We ended this semester with a happy book. I think that we ended on this book because it a lot of the material we have covered in class in it, including the heroes journey. Haroun went through every step in the Heroes journey. Haroun’s hero cycle started with his unusual birth as an only child. Haroun’s call to action is to go and help his dad to (save Bacheet and the ocean and the princess). Haroun’s spiritual guides are Mali and Butt. His mystic weapon is the wish water. As with all heroes, Haroun has trials that he must face and most of those trials for Haroun occur in Kahani. Haroun must drink the wish water, but it doesn’t work because he is unable to because he cannot concentrate. This book also brings back the archetypal hero. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a book about the real world and a fantasy world, just like Alice in Wonderland, which we saw earlier in the semester. The book had real world and fantasy world connections just like in Alice in Wonderland. There was a question posed in the story, why do we listen to stories that aren’t real? This is a good question to ask because throughout the semester we have read several stories that aren’t “real”. Another question could be that why do we listen to stories that don’t even relate to our lives?