Chapter Five: About Guppees and Chupwalas 1.

Name: _________________________________________ Per: _____

On page 79, Butt the Hoope says, “…any story worth it’s salt can handle a little shaking up.” Given some of our previous assignments (HINT: pre-reading quote-response) who/what people or institutions to you think Rushdie is referring to? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why would this be an especially important issue to Salaman Rushdie as he wrote this book? ________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you agree? Explain your answer. ____________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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In the extended metaphor of this story, what could Khatum-Shud represent? _______________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ HINT: Fantasy-stuff aside, what kind of things in the real world act how Khatum-Shud is described?

3.

Label the map of Kahani

4.

According to Mali, what do Floating Gardeners do?

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5.

Explain the pun in the name ‘Plentimaw Fish’ on page 85 Answer #1 ________________________________________________________________________________________ Answer #2 ________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What do Bahga and Goopy do? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter Five: About Guppees and Chupwalas 7.

On page 86, Iff explains to Haroun, "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old- it is the combinations that makes them new,". How is the novel itself an example of this idea?

(Write 4 – 5 sentences to explain)

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What is the ‘Old Zone’? ___________________________________________________________________________ Are Old Stories important to the world? _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ How might too much focus on “new” things provide a problem? ______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Describe the Army of Gup (be sure to list the rankings) – 5 tiers

Lowest

Highest

Explain the metaphor here. ___________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. How do you think the eggheads tie in to the importance of stories? In other words, how do the processes and machines too complicated to explain tie in to the importance of stories? ____________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Explain how the Walrus got his name.

Mali

a Page

a Plentimaw fish

the Walrus