https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l en-us 2023-06-01 19:34:16 UTC 2023-06-03 00:52:15 UTC hello@padlet.com talex022 https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2612156172 "On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. Clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I came... what set beside what has befallen me in that benighted moment, because thanks to the occult tyrannies of those blandly saluting clocks, I had been mysteriously handcuffed to history, my destinies indissolubly chained to those of my country. For the next three decades, there was to be no escape." (Rushdie 3).]]> 2023-06-01 19:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2612156172 talex022 https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2612156232 "Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it, the halal portions of the past, drained of their redness, their blood. Unfortunately thus makes the stories less juicy; so I am about to become the first and only member of my family to flout the laws of halal. Letting no blood escape from the body of the tale, I arrive at the unspeakable part; and, undaunted, press on." (Rushdie 71-72). ]]> 2023-06-01 19:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2612156232 talex022 https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2612156345 “I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’m gone which would not have happened if I had not come.” (Rushdie 535).]]> 2023-06-01 19:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2612156345 talex022 https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2612156393 “My body is screaming, it cannot take this kind of treatment anymore… I am the bomb in Bombay, watch me explode, bones splitting beneath the awful pressure of the crowd” (Rushdie 462–3).]]> 2023-06-01 19:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2612156393 talex022 https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2613306273 Rushdie used metaphors to convey how Saleem's body is terrorized by the overbearing forces of history and the emerging secular postcolonial state. As a messianic figure who stands in for the secular nation and its history, Saleem's parabolic position is unsustainable which ultimately leads to his bodily demise.

As David Punter stated in Chapter 8 about how metaphors then become, crucially, a contested field, it can also become a weapon in the ideological armoury in which history is interpreted, or reinterpreted, from the perspective of the conqueror or in this case, the conquered. ]]> 2023-06-02 23:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2613306273 talex022 https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2613317068 As Geary stated, "like Metaphors, parables have double meanings. This quote is just apart of a bigger story where Family history is quite abstract, but food is very tangible. To eat the cuisine is to comprehend the past. Rushdie adds the halal legislation here to further muddle the issue by limiting how the food may be eaten in accordance with the law. The "redness" and the "blood" are two components that shouldn't be ingested in order to be comprehended. The taboo against learning about one's family's tragic and painful history must thus be a mirror to the halal rule on the physical world. ]]> 2023-06-03 00:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/talex022/m9l14e9q5cr7fv1l/wish/2613317068