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1. Midnight's Children is clearly a work of fiction; yet, like many modern novels, it is presented as an autobiography. How can we tell it isn't? What literary devices are employed to make its fictional status clear? And, bearing in mind the background of very real historical events, can 'truth' and 'fiction' always be told apart? 2. To what extent has the legacy of the British Empire, as presented in this novel, contributed to the turbulent character of Indian life? 3. Saleem sees himself and his family as a microcosm of what is happening to India. His own life seems so bound up with the fate of the country that he seems to have no existence as an individual; yet, he is a distinct person. How would you characterise Saleem as a human being, set apart from the novel's grand scheme? Does he have a personality? 4. 'To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?' (p. 109). Is it possible, within the limits of a novel, to 'understand' a life? 5. At the very heart of Midnight's Children is an act of deception: Mary Pereira switches the birth-tags of the infants Saleem and Shiva. The ancestors of whom Saleem tells us at length

Author

adapted for the theater by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade, and Tim Supple

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307538383

Subjects

Drama, Performing Arts, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.45 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13