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E 407 Postcolonial Literature IIWorksheet 01

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

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2. Evaluate (symbolism, representation, connotation etc.) the title and the subtitles of all three books of

Midnight’s Children: (you may use keywords and explanation is not always needed)

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A public announcement:

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4. Locate ideas/incidents/factors that go with the following terms/issues: (use hints and keywords and

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7. Locate (mention chapter name and page number) and briefly explain the following extracts from the text:Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

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Dear baby Saleem , My belated congratulations on the happy accident of your moment of birth! You are the newest bearer of that ancient face of India which is also eternally young. We shall be watching over your life with the closest attention; it will be a sense, the mirror of our own.

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“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach thepresent, it inevitably seems incredible.

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“Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed, andpepperpots…. I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied than I—even I—had dreamed.

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…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... I had also been overwhelmed by an agonizing feeling of sympathy for the country which was not only my twin in birth but also joined to me (so tospeak) at the hip, so that what happened to either of us, happened to us both. If I, snot- nosed and stain faced etcetera, had had a hard time of itthe so had she, my sub continental twin sister; and now that I had given myself the right to choose a better future, I was resolved that the nationshould share it too.

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………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… We, the children of Independence, rushed wildly and too fast into our future; he, Emergency-born, will be is already more cautious, biding histime; but when he acts, he will be impossible to resist. Already, he is stronger, harder, more resolute than I….

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………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… One day, perhaps, the world may taste the pickles of history. They may be too strong for some palates, theur smell may be overpowering, tearsmay rise to eyes; I hope nevertheless that it will be possible to say of them that they possess the authentic taste of truth….that they are despiteeverything, acts of love.

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………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Yes, they will trample me underfoot, they will trample my son who is not my son, and his son who will not be his, and his who will not be his, untilthe thousand and first generation, until thousand and one midnights have bestowed their terrible gifts and a thousand and one children havedied, because it is the privilege an the curse of midnight’s children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and besucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace.

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