Show how Haroun and the Sea of Stories is much more than a simple children’s story.

Show how Haroun and the Sea of Stories is much more than a simple children’s story.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories is on the surface a children's novel that Rushdie wrote for his 11 year old son. After a more in depth reading though, the novel emerges as a satire on the restrictions imposed on freedom of speech.

The novel is basically about a young boy (Haroun) whose father is a renowned storyteller but loses the gift of gab after his wife elopes. Haroun wants to restore his father's abilities of storytelling and thus embarks on a fantastical adventure that takes him to another planet, where there is constant strife between speech and silence.

He meets incredible creatures who become his friends and he gets involved in the battle of silence v/s speech, the battle to save the stories of the world. At the end he succeeds in restoring the gift of gab and his mother returns home to a happy ending.

The novel is highly allegorical with hidden meanings strewn across the narrative. The novel is also autobiographical in nature as it is the first novel that Rushdie wrote after his much controversial Satanic Verses succeeded in getting him a death sentence by religious leaders.................

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