![]() ![]() ![]() In religious and cultural studies, these types of narratives are often referred to as Myths. Instead, these stories explain a deeper truth that cannot be understood outside of the narrative device. ![]() In the novel, Rushdie places the Old Zone in the Twilight Strip, representing his belief that the oldest of narratives are not representations of either good or evil. These stories became sacred because they attempted to put a narrative to the deepest seeded beliefs of humanity. These stories were originally oral traditions that were later written down and edited into texts that some came to view as sacred. The Old Zone is Rushdie’s metaphor for the religious and spiritual traditions that provide the oldest stories in humanity. ![]() To do so, he travels to the Old Zone in the Twilight Strip of Kahani, a place in between darkness and light, to battle Khattam-Shud, the Prince of Silence. Haroun must find a way for his father to tell stories once again. In the novel Haroun must travel to Kahani, an invisible moon of the earth that holds the Sea of Stories. The novel is partly autobiographical, partly philosophical, partly theoretical, but mostly a fun adventure story that itself relies on narratives dating back to the earliest oral traditions. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie uses an adventure narrative to ask complex and nuanced questions on the role of story and fiction in modern culture. ![]()
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