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"Now if my fiancee got herself kidnapped because she was crazy enough to go into the Twilight Strip just to go gooey over stars in the sky and, even worse, to touch the stupid Wall, for goodness' sake, then don't imagine I'd start a war to get her back," (106).
[the words my, gooey, stars, sky, touch, wall, and I'd are italicized]
This passage is spoken by Blabbermouth, who is expressing her thoughts about Prince Bolo trying to start a war because his fiancee was kidnapped by their enemy the Chup's. She thinks that the Prince is crazy to try to get back someone who would commit such a stupid action. The other thing that interests me about this passage, and about Blabbermouth in general, is that she never speaks without at least two words emphasized (italicized). Often the emphasized words don't seem to be the ones that would need to be emphasized but are just for her own dramatization. Because so many words are italicized, Blabbermouth comes off to the reader as overdramatic.
"In the land of Chup, a Shadow very often has a stronger personality than the Person, or Self, or Substance to whim or to which is is joined!" (132).
This passage interested me because it explains part of the culture of the Chups. The people are considered to be equivalent and maybe even lesser than the Shadow. This is also represented by the Shadow being capitalized just like a person's name would be. The Shadows also seem to be a metaphor for the dark silent part of a person because in reality, that's what shadows are. The Shadows are in the land of the Chumps, the place that wants to destroy the sea of stories. The Chumps live in darkness, so Shadows much be heard for them to see because they cannot see well in the light only in the dark, and shadows only come out during the light. This relates to globalization and western civilization because the Shadows and the Chumps act as the causes of bad in the environment, like things that are poisoning it. Haroun and his gang act as the people fighting back to save the environment. The only difference is that it is a fantasy world and instead of saving the environment they are saving tens of thousands of stories from being forgotten.
"Once you thought my father was spying for Khattam-Shud against you. Now, if you and the General wish, I'll spy for you upon Khattam-Shud, or his Shadow, whichever of them is down there in the Old Zone, poisoning the ocean," (136).
Haroun speaks these words while in the darkness of Chupwala. He tells the gang from Gup that he is willing to risk himself for them because they thought earlier in the story that his father was a spy of Khattam-Shud (the leader of Chupwala). Haroun thought after saying this and realized he was "a very great fool." But instead of taking the offer back he explains both to himself and to the others why he offered in the first place. He explains how now that he has seen the Sea of Stories and Water Genies he has come to really like it and he doesn't want it to disappear. This quote also shows Haroun's loyalty to his family. He risks himself in order to make up for a mistake his father accidentally made, a mistake that didn't turn out to be bad for anyone. Haroun is a truly loyal son for taking the risk for his father.
"They climbed past a row of portholes, and Haroun let out an astonished gasp, because pouring out of the portholes came darkness-darkness glowing in the twilight the way light does from a window in the evening. The Cupwalas had invented artificial darkness, just as other people had artificial light!" (150).
This quote stood out to me because it seems so bizarre. How can you make artificial darkness? I can't even imagine that concept because darkness is only a lack of light. Clearly Haroun was just as surprised as I am because the quote ended in an exclamation point. The reasoning behind this artificial darkness and "dark bulbs" are that the Chupwala peoples eyes are reversed. Their pupils are white and where the whites of our eyes are, there is black for them. The darkness of the Chupwala people also represents how what they are doing is bad because darkness is rarely ever something sought after in any stories, especially fantasy ones.
"The day Soraya stopped singing, in the middle of a line, as if someone had thrown a switch, Haroun guessed there was troble brewing. But he never suspected how much" (15-16)
"Outside, in the living room, his mother had begun to sing.” (211)
I AM GOING TO COMPARE THESE TWO QUOTES
These two quotes are important because they represent how the flow of events of the book go from Sad, Gloomy, and all around terrible to Happy, joyful, and everything being great. If you were to put every event from the book in chronological order, you would see that the events got progressively happier and better for most of the characters in the book. I think Soraya singing represents the change in feeling throughout the book, for example when she stopped singing at the beginning of the book, that was when her family got sad and everything started to go wrong however, when she came back to Rashid and Haroun and started singing again at the end of the book, everyone was happy again and things started to work out for not only the Khalifa’s but everyone in the book as well. This just shows that one little voice can go a long way and that our words and stories are as powerful and as great as an ocean.
“ ‘But why do you hate stories so much?’ Haroun blurted, feeling stunned. ‘Stories are fun…’
‘The world, however, is not for fun,’ Khattam-Shud replied. ‘The world is for Controlling.’
‘Which world?’ Haroun made himself ask.
‘Your world, my world, all worlds,’ came the reply. ‘They are all to be ruled. And inside every single story, inside every stream in the Ocean, there lies a world, a story-world, that I cannot Rule at all. And that is the reason why.’ ” (161)
This quote is crucial to the story Haroun and the Sea of Stories because it reveals why Khattam-Shud is poisoning the Great Story Sea. This quote is the most the story ever goes into the topic of why Khattam-Shud is poisoning the Great Story Sea. This quote shows the fuel of Khattam-Shud’s crazy quest for power. The entire Book revolves around this quote. If what is being talked about in this quote never happened, the story would have never gotten this far, because Haroun would have been taken the Gup’s city and been punished for stealing the Disconnecting Tool, and Rashid would have been questioned for being on the twilight strip and probably punished along with his son, Haroun. All and all, this quote carries the story for the majority of the book.
“ ‘You’re a Girl,’ Haroun said, a little obviously.
‘Shhh,’ hissed blabbermouth, stuffing her black hair under her cap. ‘You want to give me the sack or what?’ She dragged Haroun into a little alcove and drew a curtain to screen them from view. ‘You think it’s easy for a girl to get a job like this? Don’t you know that girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere? You probably had your whole life handed to you on a plate, probably got a whole mouth full of silver spoons, but some of us have to fight?’ ” (107)
This is an important quote because it shows how people in other places of the world still (as we’ve learned about from Mr. Kozuch) have very specific gender roles. And this quote shows how women in certain areas of the world aren’t expected to reach their full potential and/or greatness because they are stuck in gender roles. But like most things of that sort, like sexism, racism, or any other type of discrimination really, it may take someone or something to help open up the eyes of a person or group of people that are discriminating against other people. In this case it took the shadow warrior, Mudra to open the eyes of Prince Bolo later in the book when Blabbermouth is discovered. This is a really important quote because it shows how women in gender roles view themselves.
Sorry these are late mr. golding
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