https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62 en-us 2023-06-01 01:05:57 UTC 2023-06-01 01:43:31 UTC hello@padlet.com jentavarez https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611138001 The central metaphor in the book is the idea that the children born at midnight, possess extraordinary powers and are tied to the fate of their nation, India. ]]> 2023-06-01 01:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611138001 jentavarez https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611146347 The birth occurring at midnight in itself is a symbol of transition for the children and the country. The birth stands for the beginning of a new country and the passage from the previous colonial era to an independent and free India.]]> 2023-06-01 01:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611146347 jentavarez https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611151074 The children's special abilities represent many facets of the nation's history, culture, and identity. They serve as symbolic representations of the struggles, aspirations, and contradictions of the country.

]]> 2023-06-01 01:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611151074 jentavarez https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611154710 The children eventually lose their superhuman talents as the plot develops, paralleling the decline of India's initial zeal and idealism following independence. This defeat stands in for the difficulties, setbacks, and fractious nature of the nation as it struggles with social and political problems following independence.]]> 2023-06-01 01:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611154710 jentavarez https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611163328 "It takes time and lots of real-life encounters before children are able to clear new lines of sight."]]> 2023-06-01 01:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611163328 jentavarez https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611169864 "We might take from Lodge's comment that, in fact, for no attempt to construct a truly universal metaphor can wholly succeed, for obvious reasons of cultural diversity and difference; but that nevertheless, the effort to construct metaphors, or to revitalise them, or to reforge them for particular times and places, is also integral to literature, even if here it is, in some sense, safeguarded by begin itself couched in the Promethean metaphor of heroic struggle."]]> 2023-06-01 01:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jentavarez/g1e9e2u9f1n2tp62/wish/2611169864