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by mphillip

The class photo: quite a photogenic bunch. Kai is missing, though, and Amy's hidden....
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May 23, 2005, 09:42 AM
Metaphorical Fairy Tales: What Are They Good For?
E3 Haroun Alice
by kparker

METAPHORICAL FAIRY TALES: WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR? Whereas Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is a harsh critique of storytelling, Haroun and the Sea of Stories is an affirmation of storytelling. Haroun and the Sea of Stories argues that both simple fairy tales and thematically dense...
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May 20, 2005, 03:11 PM
Haroun’s Stories + Alice’s Anti-Stories = Khattam Shud!
E3 Haroun Alice
by bellwang

Both Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There weave well-known children’s tales into their own child’s tale. Each novel strews its compilation of tales, epics, and accounts with elements such as mischievous word play, puns, and themes, but...
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May 18, 2005, 05:42 PM
Through the Looking Glass into a Sea of Stories
E3 Haroun Alice
by jsimpson

Jonique Simpson English-021 2005-05-12 Salman Rushdie, the author of Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and Lewis Carroll, author of Alice and Wonderland’s Through the Looking Glass, are two very talented writers both of whom have perfected a craft and managed to affect readers by taking them into fanciful worlds...
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May 17, 2005, 04:25 PM
“Just our little yolk”
E3 Haroun Alice
by jsese

There is much to be learned from an egg. Within its hard exterior is a glutinous mass of the underdeveloped. Though its shell is hard, it is common knowledge that its walls are thin. It cannot even sit up on its own; its round nature prevents it from doing so....
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May 17, 2005, 01:59 PM
We’re holding out for our heroes
E3 Haroun Alice
by kmcqueen

A hero defined as a person noted for feats of courage, nobility of purpose, or one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life. Both Haroun and Alice display heroic qualities throughout their separate journeys. Each character encounters different situations to enact their heroism, but Haroun’s socially directed...
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May 13, 2005, 04:54 PM
Different Worlds, Different Realities
E3 Haroun Alice
by sstewar2

When talking to her kitten, Alice explains “how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass House!” (143). Exploring the depth of her imagination is Alice’s primary conflict. Interested in figuring out what lies beyond what she is able to see in the looking-glass, Alice’s determination...
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May 13, 2005, 01:37 AM
The end:or is it?
E3 Haroun Alice
by jmurray

More often than not the ending of a story is some kind of conclusion. It is a closing remark that ties together all of the loose ends and provides a sense of security for the reader. When a story ends mysteriously, abruptly, or with a paradoxical question the reader is...
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May 12, 2005, 06:01 PM
El último trabajo escrito
E3 Haroun Alice
by jhoffman

John Hoffman E3 Haroun Alice Enigma and Escape in Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Through the Looking Glass Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Through the Looking Glass are viable as children’s stories because they ostensibly deal in absolutes. Salman Rushdie’s Kahani is the scene of an...
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May 12, 2005, 04:14 PM
Why the PG rating?
E3 Haroun Alice
by rmccally

In both Through the Looking Glass and Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the reader is presented with landscapes divided in severe conflict. Haroun and the Sea of Stories features a land divided into two factions, the Chupwalas and the Guppees, who are on the verge of a terrible war...
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May 12, 2005, 03:54 PM
Hunger Artists
E3 Haroun Alice
by aahearn

Fish in Through the Looking Glass and Haroun and the Sea of Stories Oysters, glumfish, sharks, pomfrets, and Plentimaws: fish surface repeatedly in Through the Looking-Glass and Haroun and the Sea of Stories. These aquatic creatures are one of the few constants between the two worlds Alice and Haroun traverse....
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May 12, 2005, 02:51 PM
Powerful Young Heroes
E3 Haroun Alice
by began

Through the Looking Glass and Haroun and the Sea of Stories both feature young, pre-adolescent protagonists who still are capable of incredible actions. Although Lewis Carroll and Salman Rushdie were both, in comparison to children, old, they wrote these novels through the eyes of kids. Salman Rushdie wrote his book...
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May 12, 2005, 01:56 PM
Oedipal Alice?
E3 Haroun Alice
by oradwan

Children transition smoothly from a real world to a ‘dream world’ early in the beginnings of both Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Through the Looking Glass. While both children have similar passages between worlds, the immediate effects of the transition on their power are completely different: Alice gains...
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May 12, 2005, 11:46 AM
Accepting the Inevitable
E3 Haroun Alice
by acathcar

In both Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, a young character is presented with a world where everything is predetermined. Although the Sea of Stories and the Looking-Glass chessboard differ greatly on a superficial level, they...
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May 12, 2005, 10:00 AM
Power Relations for Kids
E3 Haroun Alice
by lcolon

Children must be taught to behave correctly in order to succeed in life. Salman Rushdie and Lewis Carroll both cared for children and, therefore, were invested in their futures. They both took on the paternal role, whether or not appropriate, of entertaining and teaching their respective child: Jafar Rushdie and...
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May 12, 2005, 09:36 AM
Identifying One's Self
E3 Haroun Alice
by kanders2

Salman Rushdie’s and Lewis Carroll’s, respective novels, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Through the Looking-Glass beg their reader to form a response to Shakespeare’s famous cliché: what’s in a name. Rushdie and Carroll take the mundane and transform it into the fantastical simply with the twist of a...
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May 12, 2005, 09:13 AM
The Grand Controller
E3 Haroun Alice
by pdecoste

In both Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass the question begs to be asked: who controls the story? In both stories there is an overarching controller that dominates the flow of action. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories the mechanical...
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May 12, 2005, 12:35 AM
Third essay assignment
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by mphillip

Submission dates Tuesday, 5/10 Please bring to class two copies of full (4-5 page) rough drafts of your essay to class. We will be peer editing on that last day of class. Thursday, 5/12 by 4 p.m. Please drop off in my mailbox (English Department office, first floor of Massachusetts...
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May 08, 2005, 02:52 PM
gated in
8 Carroll
by jsimpson

The setting of “It’s My Own Invention”, basically takes place on a gate. The White Knight, in his poem, describes a man who sits on a gate as he questions how the man makes his living. Throughout his spiel the man remains on the gate. The poem even ends with...
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May 05, 2005, 02:40 PM
contrary titles
8 Carroll
by bellwang

The knight’s poem would best be titled its real name in Alice’s world: “I give thee all, I can no more.” The narrator of the poem keeps asking the aged man how he lives, but is not satisfied with the old man’s answer, because every time the old man answers...
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May 05, 2005, 02:34 PM