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A study on HarounAnalysis on Chapter 1-4

Group Leader: Kim

Group members: Arnest, Ethan Tan, Joshua and Heng-Le


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Character Analysis Chapter 1

Haroun:

The main protagonist of the story.

A courageous, thoughtful, and outspoken individual.

Unable to focus on a subject for more than 11 minutes


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Literary Devices in Chapter 1

Foreshadowing

- Kindly desist from Iffing and Butting pg 18

- One minute you have a lucky star watching over you and the

next instant its done a bunk pg 18

Similes

- buses that dripped people the way a sponge drips water pg 26

Metaphors


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Mr.Butt

Repeats the phrase but, but, but every time he says

something

A very straight character

Fulfills his promises, no matter what


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Mr. Sengupta

Lives upstairs with his wife Ms. Oneeta.

Whats the use of stories that arent even true?

Question posed by Mr. Sengupta.


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Literary Devices in Chapter 2

Metaphors

- stank of sadness and gloom. pg 47

- Haroun absorbed all this information. pg 58

- Harounsheart sank rapidly to his shoes. pg 50

- she may have left you but there are plenty more fish inthe sea pg 43

Similes

- Tore apart like the shreds of an old shirt pg 50


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Iff the Water Genie

Iffis responsible for Disconnecting Rashids Water Tap.

Iff is a protagonist and helps Haroun throughout hisjourney at Kahani.


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Butt the Hoopoe

Can talk without moving its beak and can communicate

telepathically with Haroun.

Accompanies Haroun on his journey to save the Ocean.

Very similar to the Mail Coach Driver, despite being a

machine, he is still very compassionate and will stand

up for others.


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The Walrus

a.k.a I.M.D Walrus

Portrays himself as a dictator.

Controls the movement of the moon Kahani.

He is also rather interested in scientific stuff.

I am theWalrus??


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Themes in the story (Chapters 1-4)

The members of the Guppee army, or Library are

dressed as Pages with stories written on them.

The stories have been changed by Batcheat

Symbolizes the fact that even the nicest leaders contain

the desire to change a legends meaning for their own

benefit.

No good is entirely good


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Themes

Concept of truth.

This is shown in Chapter 1, when Haroun loses his temperwith his father and says to him, "What's the use of stories thataren't even true?" This brings Rashid away from his magical

worlds and causes to him to lose the Gift of the Gab. Thistells us that we must be realistic. This theme is also shown inChapters 2 and 3, when Haroun and Rashid are escorted tothe Arabian Nights Plus One. The Dull Lake was affected bytheir moods and changed accordingly. Haroun is reminded ofone of Rashid's stories, the Moody Land, which changes

according to the people's emotions. This is magical realism. This was also shown in Chapter 4, when Haroun realises that

the Ocean is poisoned. Pollution is a very real problem in thisworld too.


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Haroun vs Alice in Wonderland

Haroun

Transported to Kahani, a

magical world

Aid of several different

magical creatures, e.g. Iff

and Butt

Must fight Khattam-Shud to

bring Kahani to its originalstate and go home

Library ofGup made up of

Pages

Alice

Transported to Wonderland

Aid of magical creatures,e.g. The Mad Hatter, The

rabbit

Must fight with the Queen

to stop the beheading and

then return home

Queens army made up of

cards


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