The passage portrays the nature of the sea and sets up the context for the oceans future with the use of repetition. Examples of third person within the passage are “Iff explained” and “Iff the Water Genie told Haroun. Within the passage third person is used to engage the reader and distance them from the immediate situation while still allowing them to observe the beauty described by Iff the Water Genie. This allows the reader to be an onlooker to the story, a gain a more informative view of the story, allowing them to see numerous points of view rather than just one. The use of third person narrative can be seen throughout the novel and passage. These feelings foreshadow future angst Haroun will feel and overcome about the Sea of Stories and its potential destruction. Failing to make either wish due to his eleven minute concentration, a result of his mothers departure, Haroun is possessed with a “sense of hopelessness and failure”(pg 72). Haroun is challenged to make a decision between two wishes to have his mother come back or for his father to regain his lost story telling ability. The above passage is key to Rushdie’s story, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and its themes as this is when Haroun is first introduced to the Sea of Stories. Some of the techniques used within the above passage are third person narrative, repetition, synonyms, sentence structure and metaphor. These techniques allow interpretation of the themes, present Rushdie’s ideas and further engage the reader.
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