Opinion

I thought Midnight’s Children was an interesting story. It is however a difficult read with a need for a large vocabulary. Rushdie uses very descriptive and advanced language to tell his story. The plot itself seems to have no conflict at first. It’s just a very long description of Saleem’s relatives. Though not very interesting it does help the reader to understand Saleem better. The book is definitely not what I expected it to be. I expected a story about magical people saving the world but instead I got a lengthy description of a family tree. The book isn’t bad and it isn’t good. In my opinion it could be offered as reading but I wouldn't recommend it.

Week Five

Welcome to Week Five, and our last week week of blogging. This week's post should be on your overall thoughts about the book. It must be a ten sentence summary. You do not need to comment on anyone else's blog, but your post should be up here by Sunday, March 29 You should have made up any missing work by then as well.

Will - Question

Salaman Rushdie uses a lot of imagery and figurative language. How would the novel be affetcted if he did use it at all or as much? Use specific examples. Also, would it improve or worsen the story?

Like I forgot to post this...Question.

Salman Rushdie has written two other best selling novels that are a couple of the most controversial and opinion arousing. He always includes culture and crucial historical political events. Why do you think he'd add them? We know that these aspects effect the story and characters of Midnight's Children; but how? Why is it that he would add those elements when this novel is essentially supposed to be about "super heros" born at midnight?

QUESTION!

I have a question related more to the text than the story itself. On page 126 Rushdie clumps the words "talldarkhandsome" together at the bottom of the page. He does a similar thing with "higherhigher" on page 135. Assuming these are not type-os, why do you think that Rushdie chooses to do this at particular parts in the book?

Question

Later in the story you find out that Mary switched Saleem with another baby born at midnight. The parents they have weren't the ones that gave birth to them. How would the story change if this hadn't happened?

Discussion Question Post

In the book there is a lot going on in India. The conflict and culture really help set the scene in the story. How do you think the plot of the book would change if the setting wasn't in India and how have the historical and political events influenced the character's lives in the book?