embled the peninsula of India. His temples described the Himalayan Mountains to the north while his nose was associated with the Deccan Plateau, a centrally located elevated area on the peninsula(Oxford University Press 2). 4. Comment on the author’s use of humor, myth, and fantasy. What about his use of language?- Rushdie uses humor and hope to lighten the feel of the story’s grave subject matter. - The style of the novel is mythical and magical.- What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all.5. How does the author deal with political matters? Comment on his probably political views, religious views, class sympathies – if these seem relevant.6. What are the author’s views , if any on the conflict between tradition and family solidarity on the one hand, and the urge for individualism and modernity, on the other? Does he portray “westernized” and “traditional” Indian characters, and with which type does he seem to sympathize more?- Some of the philosophies the children presented include collectivism, individualism, filial duty, infant revolution, capitalism, altruism, science, religion, and so on. In short, as Saleem explains, "Nowhere, in the thoughts of the Conference, could I find anything as new as ourselves . . . but then I was on the wrong track, too; I could not see any more clearly than anyone else" (273-4).- 7. What is the value of studying works of creative literature for an understanding of another society and its history? Your own b...
