I want to know why Salman Rushdie used a country like Alifbay in his story. Please give som strong points as i need to write an essay! Thanks
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The opening setting is in the “sad city.” The city is unnamed except for its emotion because the people have forgotten the name of the city. The act of naming is a theme throughout the novel. In a later chapter, Iff the Water Genie tells Haroun that to name a thing is to bring it into being. The opposite is also true -- to lose a thing or place name means that an essential identity of it is lost. This is the case for the “sad city.” The city is Rushdie’s commentary on the collision between the ancient and the modern. Modernity is represented by the city’s industrial advance. One of the results of modernity is that it strips the essential identity from culture.
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The Hebrew alphabet's first and second letters are Alif and Bay.
The Hebrew Alphabet
