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Midnight's Children
One purpose in writing Midnight's Children was to demonstrate the impossibility of a perfectly accurate retelling of history. When we normally think of "history," our mind drifts to an undisputed...
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Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie’s seminal Man Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children is written as a first-person memoir from the perspective of Saleem Sinai, a man born at the exact moment that India...
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Midnight's Children
Salman Rusdie’s classic novel Midnight’s Children is a prime example of a postcolonial novel for a number of reasons. Chief among them is the fact that Rushdie addresses British imperialism and...
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Midnight's Children
Identity is extremely important in interpreting Rushdie's Midnight's Children. One reason why identity is so important is because Midnight's Children explores a national and psychological...
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Midnight's Children
Saleem's parents have blood types A and O. Genetically Saleem should be one of those two blood types. He is neither, which proves that is not their biological son. Mary, much later, confesses to...
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As with so much in Rushdie, Aadam is a richly flawed character. In order to illuminate the sense of fragmentation that is intrinsic to the subcontinent's history, Rushdie has to create many...
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One of the most significant contributions of Midnight's Children to the Indian novel in English existed in how the novel critiqued both Indian and Colonial cultural expressions of the good. While...
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Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children can be seen as a landmark in the history of the Indian novel in English for a couple of reasons. The first reason would be that Rushdie composes one of the most significant...
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Midnight's Children
One way in which Rushdie rewrites history is through Saleem as the narrator. Since so much of the past that Saleem relays is unclear, Saleem himself rewrites history. There are many instances in...
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Midnight's Children
While there are many complex aspects to Midnight's Children, it is clear that Rushdie offers a Postcolonial narrative. Rushdie appropriates many elements of Postcolonialism in his work. The first...
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One way in which the theme of revenge is evident in the story is how Shiva seeks control through violence. Already a bully, when Shiva becomes aware of the Midnight's Children Conference, he wants...
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Midnight's Children
Rushdie's construction of fragmented political identity and personal identity in the novel is one that exists outside the role of Hindu gods. Like most religion featured in the book, Hinduism is...
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Midnight's Children
The title of Salman Rushdie’s novel “Midnight’s Children” refers to a total of "1001" children in the story that are born just at midnight and during first hour after it, on the very day of...
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Midnight's Children
It is clear that this novel, more than any other before it, was the first Indian novel written in English to gain the widespread attention of the English reading public. This was partly due to the...
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I tend to think that Rushdie's work is a direct response or challenge to the traditional epic structure. The epic structure is one in which the clarity of the protagonist is evident. It is one in...
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The story is told in first person. First person narration makes you feel like you are there. It is a very personal narrative style, and it brings the reader much closer to the character. You...
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Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children is the first-person narrative of Saleem Sinai, an obscure thirty-year-old pickle factory worker who writes the fantastic story of his life each night, reading it aloud each...
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Midnight's Children
On some level the perforated sheet is a metaphorical representation of the cultural separation of men and women. The sheet serves as a barrier between men and women that is upheld as a tradition...
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You might like to consider the way in which language is used in this brilliant novel to stress the contrast between Saleem and Shiva, his mystical twin. One of the repeated expressions that is...
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Saleem, using his telepathic powers, assembles a Midnight Children's Conference, reflective of the issues India faced in its early statehood concerning the cultural, linguistic, religious, and...
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Midnight's Children
Sinani fills at least two distinct roles in "Midnight's Children."First, he represents India itself. Sinani is born at the very moment that India becomes a free nation. He has telepathic powers...
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I am not sure if you are going to find an exact quotation about time. Part of the reason for this is because time is an exact quality and Saleem, though he might pretend to be otherwise, is not an...
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Rushdie is able to challenge the supposed impartiality of history by displaying it as a collection of narratives rooted in power- based constructs. One of the most powerful elements in Rushdie's...
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Midnight's Children
Midnight’s Children is neatly divided into three parts to give the novel coherence and tie the it together. Overtly the three parts serve no purpose other than making the reading a bit simpler...
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Midnight's Children
I would say that one of the most unique elements to Saleem's narration is that it is fragmented and not coherent. This is similar to the manner in which India was partitioned and what resulted...
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I think that Rushdie's work fits several of the conditions of historiographic metafiction. On one hand, the construction of the narrative through Saleem's eyes makes him the center of the work....
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The style in which Rushdie presents his work helps to bring out its thematic development. I think that Rushdie's grasp of historiography is driven by the expressions of the subjective. Rushdie...
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Let us begin by reminding ourselves what a definition of magic realism actually is before going on to examine this excellent postcolonial classic. Magic realism is a literary style that combines...
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I think that some of the distinctive language featured in Rushdie's novel can center on how Saleem tells the story. His method of narration is unique because the language and context told to us is...
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I think that the post-colonial struggle for identity is what Saleem endures throughout the novel. In this light, there is much in way of post-colonialism in the work. Saleem is an interesting...
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I think that many consider Rushdie's work to be an example of historical fiction. Being true to form about his own capacity as an artist, Rushdie might hold some views on the subject. If one...
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I think that one can see magical realism best displayed in Rushdie's protagonist. Saleem's unique ability of being able to possess a strong sense of smell helps to allow the idea of magical...
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Midnight's Children
In Salman Rushdie's story, Midnight's Children, there are several themes. One of the main themes is identity. The main character of this story is Saleem Sinai who begins telling stories to Padma,...
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I think that the answer to such a question is present in how both conditions are impermanent. The idea of a lack of absolutism in either is a source of liberation and a source of pain for the...
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The narrative technique of the story is in first person. It is told from Saleem's point of view and we understand the history of Indian independence, Partition, and all that follows through his...
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One of the most striking elements of the narration technique in Rushdie's work is its subjectivity. On face value, the reader can mistakenly presume that they are reading a history text. Saleem's...
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On the narrative technique of the work, I would suggest that the role of Saleem as narrator is an important one because it is fraught with error and bias. Saleem narrates the novels of both his...
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I think that this is a fairly broad question. Accordingly, there are many ways to answer it. On one hand, I would suggest that one of Saleem's expectations would be to unify the children of...
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There is going to be much in way of specifics needed in answering the question. Simply put, I think that it is too broad of a question given the work. There are distinct social, economic, and...
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In all honesty, I am not sure I would consider him the anti hero. I think that Shiva plays this role much better in the novel. Perhaps, we could try to reconfigure Saleem as an atypical...
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More detail to the question is needed. I think that if the question is about Romanticism in Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," there will have to be more clarification in terms of what is being...
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One justification present might simply be that Saleem Sinai is one of the few who actually lived through what India was to what India has become. He could be viewed as heroic because of his mere...
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Through Saleem Sinai, Rushdie is able to provide an excellent narrator who is able to convey the extreme level of challenge in trying to provide a coherent narrative to the modern Indian nation....
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The sense of magical realism presented in the novel is not one that operates in a fantastic and dazzling type of manner. Saleem's powers are unique and demonstrate a capacity for the traditional...
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Midnight's Children
Magical realism is a story set in modern world, in a normal setting, but with fantastical elements. It is often applied to describe the work of Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia...
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In describing his grandfather's nose, Rushdie uses vivid imagery. This quote also is an example of simile and metaphor - "My grandfather's nose: nostrils flaring, curvaceous as dancers....