The way Salman Rashdie prepares us for the events in chapter 1 is how everyone in the city is sad but one family who are happy everyday. Then, all of a sudden, the family breaks up. The mum leaves the family and runs away with the nextdoor neighbours husband, the dad is unable to tell stories to the town who forgot it’s name and Haroun is so sad that the family has spattered.

The way he shows the familys problem is that he made Haroun ask his dad how he got these stories. His dad, Rashid Kalifa (The Ocean of Notions), told him he had a water genie give him a story water tap so he can drink some story water so he can tell a story from the sea of stories. Haroun didn’t believe him so he kept asking his dad how he came up with these stories until Soraya, Harouns mum, had enough. That is also why she left.

“Maybe the sadness of the city finally crept in through their window.”

This shows how the city is know to its people as sad ones and now the family has got the sadness, they can not get away from it.

Storywater was one of the things that Rashid told Haroun about. He said that who ever drank the water will be able to tell stories from the sea of stories. He also said that water genies have him a tap to get the water. As a class, we thought that this was a lie but when we got to chapter 4, story water was real. The water genie thing was true as well. There is a genie called Iff the water genie and he has a disconnecting tool that allowed he to makgenies distroy a disconnecting tool. There is also a Gup city where water genies live.

The theme is like an Arabian nights, fairytale and modern theme.

Arabian nights: genies

Fairytale: Rapunzal

Modern: factories, buses and cars.

This shows us how Salman Rashdie prepares us for the events in chapter 1.