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The Prophet's Hair By Salman Rushdie
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The Prophet’s hair is one of the strong short stories just like Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. Author Rushdie is under the influence of multi-cultural ethnicity. Rushdie talks about a story of stolen hair which is accepted as a sacred, holly belongings of the founder of the Islam, The Prophet Muhammed. Author has a different perspective in terms of looking at the scene and scenario. Thus, he is misunderstood and misinterpreted while he depicts the story for his readers.
Coming from a different foreign country, believing in a different religion among the majority of the other religion and grow up in a different culture cause one to improve its the way of thinking believing living situation. Salman Rushdie, who is born in India, raised in a Muslim family as a Muslim and grow up in England. He is influenced by
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Even though all religions believe that there is a creator of the universe, they all name the name of the creator in the different form such as in Islam it’s called Allah, in Christianity, it’s called the God. Creator sent prophets for his people to show and guide them the right way, and become a good server of him. There are disbelievers who causes trouble, conflicts among people and put in danger and rise riots and confuse people’s mind in society. In such these kind of cases, willing of the Creator, Prophets show miracles and let see how powerful Creator is and if Creator wants what he can do. Therefore in such an opposite case he shows his other face and punishes the people who disobey his orders. “If a fetish, as Eagleton observes, is "according to Freud, [...] what stands in for some intolerable lack", turning a religion into a fetish could indicate that the religion itself has faded

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