These abortions occur in order to guarantee that a male is brought into the family‚ in order to avoid the dowry system‚ and to ensure that there will be more career opportunities for the offspring. In his essay‚ “Abortions in India” (281)‚ Salman Rushdie opines‚ “Fundamentally‚ it’s the result of modern technology being placed at the service of medieval social attitudes.” Here‚ he is suggesting that although the technology of today has a neutral purpose‚ the society of India has not progressed
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why John Cleese and Graham Chapman were the writers who caused the universe to stand completely still every Friday night in the 1970s. Ironically‚ this bold insight‚ which I shall reveal later‚ came to me thanks to Salman Rushdie on page 42 of Midnight’s Children. (Quote) Rushdie however‚ like Lessing‚ Baldwin‚ Atwood‚ and all the British Post-Romanticists‚ Post-Realists‚ Post-Modernists‚ Post-Structuralists and the ad nausea post scripts to earlier British Literature‚ for all their awards fame
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Censorship in China: A Western Issue & the Chinese Opinion “Free societies... are societies in motion… Free people strike sparks‚ and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom ’s existence”. So are the words of Salman Rushdie on the topic of freedom of speech and its censorship (Rushdie). Those words bring attention to many of today’s societies that disallow these sparks in many of its forms. The most prominent country forbidding those sparks is China. China is a nation that is noticeably powerful
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happen when a person decides to take control of something in his or her life. Whether it be good or bad‚ there will be consequences for every decision one makes. Both “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer‚ and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie‚ use allegory to show the dangers of wanting and having control. “Once Upon a Time” shows the power and dominance of control through a real-life situation and a fairytale. Gordimer writes about apartheid‚ a situation going on in her life that
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Haroun’s Heroic Feat A tale of adventure can pertain to an individual’s journey‚ whether it is a story in which the character physically journeys from one place to another‚ or a story encompassing a journey within the character. Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and The Sea of Stories takes readers on a journey of their own as they experience the enchanting tale of a young boy‚ Haroun‚ and his heroic journey from one realm to another. In a way‚ this story amounts to the structure of the standard hero’s
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Cat Stevens was one of the most successful singer/songwriters of the first half of the 70s‚ and several of his soft‚ romantic‚ and sometimes mystical singles were Top 10 hits. After eight gold albums in a row‚ his star began to fade‚ and in the late ’70s‚ following a near-drowning‚ he converted to Islam‚ changed his name to Yusef Islam‚ and dropped out of music. The son of a Greek father and Swedish mother‚ Stevens spent his early youth developing a love of Greek folk songs and dances. By the
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the main characters of each story have to make many important decisions/choices. The choices that are made change how other characters see the main character as well as how they react to them. In the short story‚ "The Free Radio‚" by Salman Rushdie‚ Ram has many choices to make throughout the story. Ram who could have had anything in the world he wanted made many poor choices. Ram was the cutest guy in the town; he had everything going for him. Then he met the widow and her five
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Post-Colonialism: Definition‚ Development and Examples from India 1. Post-colonialism in general 1.1 Definition Post-colonialism is an intellectual direction (sometimes also called an “era” or the “post-colonial theory”) that exists since around the middle of the 20th century. It developed from and mainly refers to the time after colonialism. The post-colonial direction was created as colonial countries became independent. Nowadays‚ aspects of post-colonialism can be found not only in sciences
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