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"To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world." (Saleem Sinai, Tick Tock)

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This quote manifested itself into the novel through the different lives and histories told in the structure of the novel. The novel has a diverse group of characters that tells layered stories of their lives and events that made them who they are. So this quote serves as a reminder of the exploration of life. "How many things people think we bring with us into the world, how many possibilities and also restrictions of possibility!-Because all of these were the parents of the child born that midnight, and for every one of the
midnight children there were as many more" (Saleem Sinai chapter 2)

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Another example would be how these characters might have different lives but they  have shared experiences. This story doesn't just talk about one character but the other characters as well and how they share this relationship of interconnected experiences. They all have powers that intertwine into their lives. "He, too, was born on the stroke of midnight; he, like me, was connected to history. The modes of connection-if I'm right in thinking they applied to me-enabled him, too, to affect the passage of the days" (Saleem Sinai chapter 1)

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The final example of how this quote manifested itself through storytelling and the preservation of memory. Throughout the novel, the main character is recalling memories of his own life and other characters. It shares the importance of recognizing one's personal life. "what was in my mind was that once again destiny, inevitability, the antithesis of choice had come to rule my life, once
again a child was to be born to a father who was not his father, although by a terrible irony the child would be the true grandchild of his father's parents; trapped in the web of these interweaving genealogies, it may even have occurred to me to wonder what was beginning, what was ending, and
whether another secret countdown was in progress, and what would be born with my child." (Saleem Sinai chapter 8)

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14: Cultural Variations in Metaphor and Metonymy

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14: Cultural Variations in Metaphor and Metonymy

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"Behind these large cultural metaphors lie vast swaths of cultural assumption: the intensely English metaphor of ‘hearts of oak’, to take a further but equallymaritime example, would not be a thinkable way of construing the world(after all, one might think it meant merely ‘hard-hearted’ rather than‘brave’) unless one knew that oak was the favoured, strongest wood forshipbuilding, and thus available as a cultural metaphor for a concept ofpower and courage appropriate to a nation which perceived itself, duringthe eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the metaphor came to itsfullest fruition, as essentially maritime, dependent on naval supremacy."

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 7: Metaphor, Difference, Untranslatability

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 7: Metaphor, Difference, Untranslatability

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"Not only conceptual metaphors but also conceptual metonymies can participate in producing cross-cultural variation. One language-culture may have metonymies that the other does not have in a conventionalized linguistic form. In the case of emotion concepts, conceptual metonymies are the linguistic descriptions of the physiological and expressive responses associated with an emotion."