critical approaches that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a text. These features include not only grammar and syntax but also literary devices
Possible Messages of Novel
What
Literary Devices
What
Allusions
Allusions to Hindu Mythology; Shiva, Parvati, etc.
Points of View
First person; third person omnicient, etc.
Narrator Bias
Unreliable Author because he is the one retelling the story and he has experienced a loss of memory when he was hit with a spittoon during the war between Pakistan and India
Power of a Nation
Influences the country can have on its citizens.
Role of the Individual in a Larger Whole
Saleems impact on India
Impact of Past on the Present
Saleems family histroy plays a large role in his personality and character.
Allegorical Narrative
Everything seems like a large metaphor; Indias history is a metaphor for Saleems life.
Disappearing
Everyone seems to vanish by the end, and Saleem himself vanishes. p500