The story is based on the quote, "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?" The use of these stories is to help people get an imagination, and to help people keep their imagination. One question you could ask is, who are fantasy stories mostly told to? They are told to children and babies. This is probably the reason why they have more imagination. Imagine a child without an imagination. Just think what a …showed first 75 words of 1253 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1253 total…he wouldn't have written this novel if he didn't have a "Fatwa" on his head. The novel wants to sent the message out that he wrote the book Satanic Verses from his own thoughts ant that people should respect him for doing so. Index http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/pakistan/literature/rushdie/haroun4.html http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~clit234/Review/notes_on_haroun.htm http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi680.htm