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    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, hence Salman Rushdie position as

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    “From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.” -Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie points are truly stated and are seen in literature work. The two stories “The Most Dangerous Game” and “Porphyria’s Lover”, both portray the characters, General Zaroff and Porphyria’s Lover, as murderers who think they have done nothing wrong. The authors Connell and Browning use conflict and characterization to convey that some find it easy to justify murder. Through the use of

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    Literature is a term used to describe written and sometimes spoken material, writing that possesses literary merit and Language that foregrounds Literariness, as opposed to ordinary. The term derived from Latin Literatura meaning writing formed with letters, although contemporary definitions include texts that are spoken or sung. Literature can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction and whether it is poetry or prose. It can be further distinguished according to major forms

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    The act of migrating has been around for almost all humanity and is practiced by a majority of human beings. Salman Rushdie talks about the privileges and beauty of migrating in a set of stories that explore his philosophy on the topic. Scott R. Sanders writes in response the essay “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,” where he happens to not agree with the philosophy of migration that Rushdie proposes, and instead believes that we should stay put in one place in order to make a “durable

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    a Home in a Restless World,” in which he encompasses the revolutionizing topic of human migration. He commences his essay with the origins of migration and proposes that Americans are now likely to concur with the idea of migrating, as a result of Salman Rushdie’s story, a writer who left his native India for England. However, Sanders contradicts and retaliates Rushdie’s notion. Rushdie believes migrating is imperative, meanwhile Sanders thinks the idea of migrating is more detrimental, rather than

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    Analysis of Salman Rushdie’s Essay; Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality In his essay, Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality, Salman Rushdie argues that the popularity of reality television shows should both alarm us and enlighten us as we examine their success. What is Rushdie’s primary argument, and in what tone does he make his plea? How well does Rushdie keep our attention as a writer and are his arguments credible? Are his claims supported by hard evidence

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    Haroun and the Sea of Stories SALMAN RUSHDIE Novel, 1990. Summary. In this story we encounter storytelling as a means of saving your identity, your relationship with your family, and perhaps even your life—which means that, in a sense, you are saving a world. The British-Indian author Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) had to go underground after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses in 1988. The book was considered blasphemous to Islam by the fundamentalist government of Iran, which issued

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    Comparing Home in Richard Ford's I Must Be Going and Scott Sander's Homeplace Most people define home as a comfortable setting which provides love and warmth. In Scott Sanders “Homeplace” and Richard Ford’s “I Must Be Going” the concept of home is defined in two different ways. Sanders believes that by moving from place to place, the meaning of home has been diminished. Sanders believes that America’s culture “nudges everyone into motion” (Sanders 103) and that his “longing to become an inhabitant

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    and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.” Ms. Brown was a news network anchor and was exposed to sexism almost everyday of her life. Sexism is found in movies, music and even novels. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories written by Salman Rushdie in 1990, sexism is found throughout the novel, with the help from the characters Blabbermouth and Princess Batcheat. Sexism is unfair as it produces rebellion, eliminates women’s rights and creates a stereotypical role of women in society

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    According to Ian Almond in the article "Mullahs, Mystics, Moderates and Moghuls: The Many Islams of Salman Rushdie", Rushdie wrote this piece from a medieval religiousness perspective, most pointedly making use of symbols such as the "ancient holy relic whose disappearance inspires countless deaths" (Almond 3). These violent deaths mark something more in the theme of the book; presumptuously, Rushdie is attempting to enlighten his readers with the many faces of Islam, this particular story showing

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