Midnight’s children:
Midnight’s children wrote by controversial writer Salman Rushdie. This is adopted as a film by Deepa Mehta. In the movie Deepa Mehta used very well Salman Rushdie’s narrative style – magic realism. Magic realism is literary devise whereas post colonialism is literary theory. Thus, magic realism is a postcolonial device. Salman Rushdie very well composed literary theory in his writing through his style magic realism.
Saleem Sinai is the protagonist. Saleem born on midnight that time India got freedom in the hand of British. So Saleem Sinai’s generation of midnight’s children to the generation of Indians with whom he was born and raised. Saleem’s entire life struggled with self – identity, conflicts of living between two worlds and the forces of new cultures. Saleem’s life represents the life of Salman Rushdie.
Salman Rushdie felt that he hasn’t his own land, there was only Imaginary Homelands. Same thing he gave to his character – Saleem that he became the sandwich between two identities, two nations. He hasn’t his own neither blood nor love or neither identity nor nation. This we can say through what he said that
‘‘My wrong blood changed my father’s love into hate.’’
And also said that
‘‘I have many families and no family’’
Or
We can say that he have many nations and no nation, what Salman Rushdie talked about ‘‘Authenticity’’ that there is no authenticity. Authenticities in everywhere like ideas, nations and also narrator. We cannot say that these all things are truth. We cannot rely on that. Because nothing is ours, we are just part of that. The only thing is about the ‘‘Acts of Love’’ and ‘‘Humanity’’.
This idea is reflect at the end of the movie when Saleem said to his child that
‘‘A new generation but more careful Acts of Love’’.
These two things we find out in ‘‘Reluctant Fundamental’’ also. The novel wrote by a Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid. It is based on 9/11 incident. This is adopted as a movie by Mira Nair. The protagonist is Changez Khan. The image was created by American as a superior, he has in his mind. He has an American dream. He works in America very well. But as time passes he comes to know that he exploiting his ‘‘own people’’. He himself drives thousands of people into unemployment.
Afterward he comes to know that they are considered as a Pakistani terrorist instead of a Pakistani man. It is also constructed image by English people. Here Changez tries to remove this image through the postcolonial tool. He is coming from third world country, so he knows very well about the aspects of post colonialism. And through this tool he tries to remove the identity which is imposed or constructed. He tries to remove the identity through the basic fundamental. He comes into introduction of two different persons, who are talked about fundamental at the surface level.
For example –
Jim Cross – ‘‘we do that by focusing on the fundamentals’’ and
Mustafa Fazil – ‘‘our only hopes as a people are the fundamental truths…’’
Everybody talked about fundamental but the thing is that nobody knows the basic fundamental. Changez tries to gave basic fundamentals like,
‘‘Acts of love’’ and ‘‘Humanity’’.
Colonial people forget these two aspects. So through the mouthpiece of Changez, Mohsin Hamid tries to reached these two aspects to the people through postcolonial.
Thank you...
Midnight’s children wrote by controversial writer Salman Rushdie. This is adopted as a film by Deepa Mehta. In the movie Deepa Mehta used very well Salman Rushdie’s narrative style – magic realism. Magic realism is literary devise whereas post colonialism is literary theory. Thus, magic realism is a postcolonial device. Salman Rushdie very well composed literary theory in his writing through his style magic realism.
Saleem Sinai is the protagonist. Saleem born on midnight that time India got freedom in the hand of British. So Saleem Sinai’s generation of midnight’s children to the generation of Indians with whom he was born and raised. Saleem’s entire life struggled with self – identity, conflicts of living between two worlds and the forces of new cultures. Saleem’s life represents the life of Salman Rushdie.
Salman Rushdie felt that he hasn’t his own land, there was only Imaginary Homelands. Same thing he gave to his character – Saleem that he became the sandwich between two identities, two nations. He hasn’t his own neither blood nor love or neither identity nor nation. This we can say through what he said that
‘‘My wrong blood changed my father’s love into hate.’’
And also said that
‘‘I have many families and no family’’
Or
We can say that he have many nations and no nation, what Salman Rushdie talked about ‘‘Authenticity’’ that there is no authenticity. Authenticities in everywhere like ideas, nations and also narrator. We cannot say that these all things are truth. We cannot rely on that. Because nothing is ours, we are just part of that. The only thing is about the ‘‘Acts of Love’’ and ‘‘Humanity’’.
This idea is reflect at the end of the movie when Saleem said to his child that
‘‘A new generation but more careful Acts of Love’’.
These two things we find out in ‘‘Reluctant Fundamental’’ also. The novel wrote by a Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid. It is based on 9/11 incident. This is adopted as a movie by Mira Nair. The protagonist is Changez Khan. The image was created by American as a superior, he has in his mind. He has an American dream. He works in America very well. But as time passes he comes to know that he exploiting his ‘‘own people’’. He himself drives thousands of people into unemployment.
Afterward he comes to know that they are considered as a Pakistani terrorist instead of a Pakistani man. It is also constructed image by English people. Here Changez tries to remove this image through the postcolonial tool. He is coming from third world country, so he knows very well about the aspects of post colonialism. And through this tool he tries to remove the identity which is imposed or constructed. He tries to remove the identity through the basic fundamental. He comes into introduction of two different persons, who are talked about fundamental at the surface level.
For example –
Jim Cross – ‘‘we do that by focusing on the fundamentals’’ and
Mustafa Fazil – ‘‘our only hopes as a people are the fundamental truths…’’
Everybody talked about fundamental but the thing is that nobody knows the basic fundamental. Changez tries to gave basic fundamentals like,
‘‘Acts of love’’ and ‘‘Humanity’’.
Colonial people forget these two aspects. So through the mouthpiece of Changez, Mohsin Hamid tries to reached these two aspects to the people through postcolonial.
Thank you...
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