Midnight's Children Questions and Answers
What is the significance of the title of Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"?
How is magical realism used in Midnight's Children?
Comment on the narrative technique of Midnight's Children.
How is the issue of diaspora explored in Midnight's Children?
What was Salman Rushdie's purpose in writing Midnight's Children?
What is the theme of Midnight's Children?
What is the role of the epic structure in Midnight's Children?
Describe the structure of Midnight's Children.
Discuss Midnight's Children as Postcolonial novel.
How does Salman Rushdie present magic realism in his novels, especially in Midnight's Children?
What is the trauma of historical memory in Midnight's Children?
Identify how the theme of revenge is present in Midnight's Children.
Name 3 important and intriguing quotes that refer to noses in Midnight's Children.
How is Midnight's Children a postcolonial novel?
What is the role of Hindu gods in Midnight's Children?
What values exactly is Salman Rushdie trying to preserve for the people of India in Midnight's Children?
Where did Aadam Aziz initially live in Midnight's Children?
Discuss Midnight's Children as a landmark in the history of the Indian novel in English.
Discuss the contribution of Rushdie's Midnight's Children to the Indian novel in English.
How does Salman Rushdie explore the notion of 'truth' in the novel?
How does Salman Rushdie present histogriographic metafiction in Midnight's Children?
How important is the theme of identity to an interpretation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children?
How does Salman Rushdie reflect postcolonial elements in Midnight's Children?
Why is Saleem Sinai, the protagonist of Midnight's Children, considered an antihero?
How did the revelation of Saleem‘s blood type during an accident change his life?
Explain how magical realism is used as a style to describe a tumultuous time in India (postmodern and postcolonial studies).
What justification is there in Midnight's Children for viewing Saleem Sinai as heroic?
Discuss the language of Midnight's Children
Discuss Romanticism in Indian literature.
What quotations in Midnight's Children are the best for discussing the topic of 'time'? What quotations in Midnight's Children are the best for discussing the topic of 'time'?
What are the aspects of myth and history in Rushdie's Midnight's Children? He also mentions in the introduction of the novel that he took inspiration from the oral tradition of India. What are the specific aspects of folklore in the novel?
What are Saleem Sinai's expectations in Midnight's Children?
How does Salman Rushdie rewrite or reclaim History in Midnight's Children?
Comment on the narrative technique of Midnight’s Children.
Please explain the role of Saleem Sinani as an autobiographer in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of self-reflexive and non-linear historical account or narration of Saleem Sinai in Midnight's Children?
Comment on the language of Midnight's Children.
Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" reflects the socio- economic and political relationships. Elaborate with reference to theoretical positions.
How does Salman Rushdie reflect magical realism in his book Midnight’s Children?
Can we classify Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children as histogriographic metafiction?
In Midnight's Children, Aadam and Naseem Aziz embody the tension between traditionalist and more modern values. How is Aadam depicted to be a richly flawed character?
Comment on Midnight's Children as a landmark in the history of the Indian novel in English.
Is Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children an example of historical fiction?
What are the salient features of magical realism? What is the use of magical realism in Midnight's Children?
How would you characterize the narrative mode of Midnight's Children?
What are the ambiguities of Magic Realism with special reference to Salman Rushdie's novels? What is the structural design?
Discuss the language of Midnight's Children.
How is the issue of diaspora presented in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children?
In the perforated sheet what key issues are raised ?
In the introduction of Midnight's Children, Rushdie says he has written elsewhere about his debt to the oral narrative traditions of India. What has he written?
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