https://padlet.com/ngall028/pmzlrbuq56ydqztl en-us 2023-06-02 20:51:17 UTC 2026-03-11 04:28:00 UTC hello@padlet.com ngall028 https://padlet.com/ngall028/pmzlrbuq56ydqztl/wish/2613257700 In 'Midnight's Children' Saleem is a metaphor for India itself.]]> 2023-06-02 21:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ngall028/pmzlrbuq56ydqztl/wish/2613257700 ngall028 https://padlet.com/ngall028/pmzlrbuq56ydqztl/wish/2613267537 "Soothsayers had prophesied me, newspapers celebrated my arrival, politicos ratified my authenticity." (Rushdie, pg. 1)

Here we see how from the very beginning of the story, Saleem himself seems to interchange his own being with the freed India.]]> 2023-06-02 21:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ngall028/pmzlrbuq56ydqztl/wish/2613267537 ngall028 https://padlet.com/ngall028/pmzlrbuq56ydqztl/wish/2613278551 Midnight's Children takes several smaller metaphors and places them in context of each other to weave this larger central metaphor. A great example of this is Saleem's skin which is "stained" with birthmarks and discoloration that literally turns his face into a map of India. Yet despite these outlandish descriptions, the story is rooted in real human experiences. Geary describes this for of parable in his textbook: "Parables are narrated metaphors; they place a fictional story by the side of a fact of life" (Geary, pg. 181).]]> 2023-06-02 22:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ngall028/pmzlrbuq56ydqztl/wish/2613278551 ngall028 https://padlet.com/ngall028/pmzlrbuq56ydqztl/wish/2613283486 In his novel, Rushdie tries to explain to us the effects and troubles of India's transition to independence and following partition. He does this through a fantastical story about children with superpowers! How and why? Well, as Greary explains in his book I is an Other, "We can never know what it is like to be a bat. But metaphor can always tell us what it is like, by providing the right analogy from our own experience" (Geary, pg. 176). This tells us that Rushdie is telling us the story of India in a way that is understandable through Saleem's story.]]> 2023-06-02 22:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ngall028/pmzlrbuq56ydqztl/wish/2613283486