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Salman Rushdie, the author of the famous and awarded books such as, “The Satanic Verse”, "Midnight Children”, “The Moor’s last Sigh” and “Shame” has been inspiring readers for many years. Through these books, he got many awards such as, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Man booker international prize and international IMPAC Dublin literary award, and Austrian state prize for European literary award. Despite of all his awards the novel “The Midnight’s children” makes him recognize as an international famous writer. The author he creates a new pattern through which to interpret both his own history and that of India itself through the character Saleem in Midnight’s Children.
As a fiction, the author emphasize on the children who born in the midnight have power of telepathy and reading mind, which illuminate the events were occurred at the moment . Moreover, his work shows the whole world how the children who born during the independence possess superior power. However, his main concept about Indian and Pakistan historical event fail to reach most of the readers whoever not familiar with it. For example, he explained Amritsar massacre in a complicated way even the people who familiar with the event could not able to understand easily. Additionally, he brings new and complicated characters and plots which are unsuccessful to keep the readers interest on the book for a long time.
Moreover, one of the principals of this book emphasizes the concept of nationalism by giving characters which are in different religion and culture in India. It made us to agree the author’s intention because he uses characters names’ Saleem, Shiva, and Mary to indicate different religion. On the contrary, we do disagree with one of the characters; Mary because she switches the name tag of the two babies Shiva and Saleem who were born in the same labor room. Due to her guiltiness she becomes nanny for Saleem, her action could not accept by us because she could tell the truth instead of being nanny.
Furthermore, there are many quotes which made the story interesting and in some point those quotes will make the reader to feel that he or she is a part of the story. For instance, “I told you the truth,” I say yet again, “Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent versions of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.” (Rushidie, 253), this quotation occurs in Book Two, in the chapter “At the Pioneer Café.” Saleem has interrupted his story in order to defend its truth to Padma. For Saleem, everything he says is true not necessarily because it happened that way, but because he remembers it that way.
In addition to that, when we compare his banned book Haroun and the Sea of Stories with Midnight’s Children we have found that both stories’ strength is power of storytelling. In the Midnight’s Children his narrating inspired readers as well as Haroun and the Sea of Stories too. Specially, in Haroun and the Sea of Stories he made the readers to think about their own rights. For example, Rushdie talks about freedom of speech and how it is important to human life (Rushide 117-118). Another similarity which we have found is that author addresses India and Pakistan historical issues in the two books. Generally, the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories an emotional and portray in a logical way.
Finally, the book Midnight’s Children’s first published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd. On 1980. It has published by the Penguin group and its ISBN is 0 14 01.3270 8.




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