Study of Salman Rushdie’s Midnights Children
Keywords:
Historical, Midnight’s ChildrenAbstract
The episode is described in a mock-serious manner by Salman Rushdie, although he still uses fire in his prose. There's no arguing with his historical veracity. Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie elicits a wide range of emotions on numerous levels. Humans have an incredible ability to bounce back from adversity. Disillusionment, sadness, and frustration ensue when there is a lack of balance in one's life. Confidence and hopelessness pervade. Postmodernist authors are driven by a need for a life-giving sap to make a massive effort to convey the current socio-political scenario's ruling chaos in images that are hideous and incorrigible. To keep the audience's attention, the storey is told in a surrealist style.
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