Salman Rushdie's Haroun 9/4/08 @ 10:00PM

Salman Rushdie's novel, Haroun Sea of Stories, is an interesting book of fiction stories promoting imagination. Rushdie uses many different outside sources within Haroun, helping to bring in a unique intertextual connection within the novel. These intertextual connections include films such as Star Wars and The Wizard of OZ as well as musical connections such as the Beatles. Although briefly touched upon in class, I wanted to take a moment and discuss a few intertextual connections that I noticed while reading Haroun Sea of Stories that were not discussed in class. First of all, the movie Wizard of OZ seems to have a deep connection within many different scenes. For example, the mini genie's that all look alike had a similar quality of the munchkins (Lollipop kids). The second example unmentioned in class is the initials OZ. Within the story, the discussion of the "Old Zone" came into play. I noticed a direct correlation with the words Old Zone and its initials OZ. The second intertextual connection that I noticed is a musical correlation between the characters Eggheads and Walrus and the famous Beatles hit, I am the Egghead, I am the Walrus (coo coo kachoo). Although the lyrics themselves are not very similar to the text itself, the language and characters greatly reflect each other.