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From the Ted Talk by Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read "Midnight's Children"?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Over the course of the novel, Rushdie dazzles us with multiple versions of reality. Sometimes, this is like renidag a rsoelcotrealr. Saleem narrates: “Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in- the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I,' every one of the now-six- hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow a world.”
Saleem’s narrative often has a breathless quality— and even as rhsdiue dpeitcs the cosmological consequences of a life, he questions the idea that we can ever condense hsiroty into a single narrative.
Open Cloze
Over the course of the novel, Rushdie dazzles us with multiple versions of reality. Sometimes, this is like _______ a _____________. Saleem narrates: “Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in- the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I,' every one of the now-six- hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow a world.”
Saleem’s narrative often has a breathless quality— and even as _______ _______ the cosmological consequences of a life, he questions the idea that we can ever condense _______ into a single narrative.
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Original Text
Over the course of the novel, Rushdie dazzles us with multiple versions of reality. Sometimes, this is like reading a rollercoaster. Saleem narrates: “Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in- the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I,' every one of the now-six- hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow a world.”
Saleem’s narrative often has a breathless quality— and even as Rushdie depicts the cosmological consequences of a life, he questions the idea that we can ever condense history into a single narrative.
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