Salman Rushdie

Presentations have never been my strong suit, whether it is talking about myself in front of a group of people to presenting a complex situation to a class. By taking this course I am hoping that I’ll be able to boost my confidence when it comes to public speaking. I have had to complete many presentation in the past but I have yet to master the ability to present well in front of large groups. The first project that we were assigned in my communication class was to get to know our classmate…

individual memory, and is admittedly fragmented and incomplete” (Literary Contexts in Novels: Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children".) means that the historical satire of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children revolves around 20th century India when women were trapped at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Women were stuck at the bottom of this ladder due to political and religious customs at the time. However, Rushdie breaks away from the rich history of India during the 20th century, portraying…

Courage can be defined in a variety of ways; it all depends on what an individual perceives as courageous, and the different aspects of courage they find most important. In the short story “On the Rainy River” Tim O’Brien focuses on the action side of courage. Action meaning the big and small tasks in a person’s life that determine their courageousness. The actions an individual takes when caught in a difficult situation is what defines them as brave. For example, when presenting the Medal of…

are techniques often used to develop character and plot, and make the text more accessible to the reader. However, authors choose to deal with and present these difficult life events using different methods. Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’ and Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children both depict somewhat similar difficult life events in that they have similar settings, involve both domestic and political conflict, are told by fairly similar narrators. Despite this, both authors employ different…

heaven” by Salman Rushdie and the song “Imagine” by John Lennon are some of the efforts of supporting the case that the world would be better without religion.…

who are all born around India’s Independence. Midnight’s Children is written by Salman Rushdie, an author who has a purpose for every character in his novel. This essay is about one of the purposes of Saleem. Saleem that describes his life, which is connected to and intertwined with the history of India. As…

Scott Russell Sanders responds to a paper by Salman Rushdie by disagreeing with Rushdie’s belief that people should root themselves in ideas rather than places. Sanders argues the complete opposite of that belief, which is that people should root themselves in places rather than ideas. By Sanders structuring his response based on Rushdie’s counterargument, using a respectful tone, and alluding to historical events, he is able to argue why people must begin to root themselves in places in order…

This article examines the implications of history in Salman Rushdie’s Shame (1983), Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners: Three English Lives (2007), and Colum McCann’s Transatlantic (2013). History plays an important role in discriminating and distinguishing the proper characteristics of certain nations and people of a specific historical era. The purpose of the current paper is to scrutinize the historical components in the selected novels. These novels incarnate the authors’ visions of the silenced…

In a small passage from Salman Rushdie's "Staying Put: Making a home in a restless world", Rushdie writes on his perspective when leaving India for England. Although, another supposed writer by the name of Scott Russell Sanders has perceived a different view on mass migrations, much like to what Rushdie was a part of. Russell states, "The creation of radically new types of human being: people who root themselves in ideas rather than places.", as he talks about migrations. America is always seen…

In Salman Rushdie’s story Midnight’s Children, offers an overview of events in India immediately following the nation gaining independence in 1947. Within the context of the novel, The Midnight Children are the inheritors of India’s lasting promise, and the evidence of its lasting strength. They each have an unusual power, which not only provides them protection, but more broadly signals India’s ability to rise, in a post-colonial era. It is their magic, that becomes the strongest thread for…