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    A. Prose: Fiction Assignment Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the day of India’s independence from British rule, Saleem’s life is a microcosm of post-Independent India. The Title of this text, Midnight’s Children, gives the reader a broad idea of what the text is about: It gives the time and where the setting may play off. This text dominates the theme of identity that breaks down colonial constructs of Western dominance over Eastern culture

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    non resident Indian writers the struggle is everywhere, whereas the Indians trapped in the cultural conflict in their country itself endure a constant struggle which ends nowhere leads nowhere. The Man Booker prize winning Indian works Midnight’s Children, The God of Small Things, The Inheritance of Loss, and The White Tiger are written with an intention to discuss the inner struggles faced by various elements of the society in India and outside India. The cultural confusion naturally suffered in

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    Impressions Gained of Pip's Character from Great Expectations 'Pip' is very much a child in the the first chapter. However, it is Pip narrating it as an adult ( retrospective narrator). You know he is a child by his 'childish' thoughts and his rather odd imagination. He manages to come up with the 'childish conclusion' that his father is a 'square, stout, dark man, with curly hair' just by looking at his fathers tombstone. Also, that his mother was 'freckled and sickly'. It is quite bizarre

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    globe, writes using dream-like magical sequences to allow him to explore the inner-workings of the transcultural man. In doing so, he uses the cultural connotations of the images to convey the chaos and surrealism of the modern world. In Midnight’s Children and Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie aptly applies magical realism and religious parallels to convey the internal struggle of reconciling self-determination with cultural heritage. Through the character Saladin Chamcha’s arc in The Satanic Verses

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    Week 4: Assignment List Instructions: All of your answers should be written on this document. Please save the document (last name, first name) and upload it to the digital drop box. 1. Citation Exercise 1 Create a reference for each source listed below in proper APA format. - Write a reference for a book. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (2010). Answer: Hsieh, T. (2010).Delivering happiness: A path to profits, passion, and purpose - Write a reference

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    Salman Rushdie is one of the biographer , who emerged in eighties with a new affectionate of announcement and abstruse innovation. His ‘Booking abettor Prize’ win atypical Midnight ’s Accouchement is generally associated with adapted categories of arcane allegory , which cover postmodern fiction, postcolonial novel, absolute novel, and, a lot of importantly, bewitched accurateness . Assorted characters in the adventure are able with bewitched big agent , and the a lot of important of them is the

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    Before children were sent to Canada they received some education as well as some training. Only the children who were in good physical health as well as demonstrated a good personal character were chosen to go to Canada. Children gave consent to be sent they had the option to say ‘no’ to the trip, however with promises of a better life and the ability to help develop the new country, the trip seemed like an adventure to many. Children did not understand what they were agreeing to. They were usually

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    Rushdie's “Midnight's Children” and Virginia Woolfe’s “Mrs. Dalloway”. Rushdie explores the History, Nationalism and Hybridism of the nation of India after they became independent of Great Britain. Woolfe comments heavily on English society more through her description of her characters, and the weaving of time and place is an effective way to telling the stories of her characters as we follow them through a single day. This essay will compare in three passages from “Midnight’s Children” the effectiveness

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    IDENTITY CRISIS IN SELECT NOVELS OF SALMAN RUSHDIE The question of identity is the most controversial issue in postcolonial time and literature and it can be regarded the most important because of its crisis exist in all postcolonial communities. Due to the circumstances of post colonial era and the problematic conditions that faced newly freed nations and countries in their search and formation of self identity the crisis floated on the surface. In the following of World War II, the act

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