Name : Jethwa Monali Semster : 3 , M.A Paper : 11 The Post-colonial literature Submitted : Dept.of .English M.K.B.UEmailid : monalijethwa19@gmail.com Topic : Comparision between two booker prize winner novel The God Of Small Things and Midnight's children.

Introduction about both the author : Midnight's children Salman Rusdies Born 19 june 1947 British Indian novelist , essayist Much of his fiction is set on the

Indian subcontinant

The God of Small Thing Arundhati Roy Born 24 november 1961 Indian novelist ,activist Politicalactivist- involved in

human rights-environmental causes.

Booker winner prize

Midnight's children Won the Booker prize for fiction in1981

The winner chosen by public vote,

Announced on july 10 at London Literature Festival.

James Tait Black Memorial booker prize 1981

Booker of Bookers Prize 1993, which commemorated the award's 25th anniversary.

The best all time prize winner 2008 celebrating in the 40th anniversary.

An Arts council Writers Award.

The God of Small Thing Arundhati's novel booker prize winner 1997 National film award for best screen play in 1989. 2002 Lannan Foundation's culture freedome

award 2003 awarded “ special recognition” as a women

of peace. Awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in may 2004-

social campaigns. 2006 Awarded Sahitya Akademi Award from

Indian Academy of letters. 2011 , awarded the norman mailer prize of

distinguished writing . 2015, returned the national awaded – against

religion intolerance.

About Midnight's children At midnight on aug 15, 1947

Two boys are born in a Bombay hospital,

Where they are switched by a nurse.

Around that time thousand children were born ,

They are midnigh children .

Saleem the narrator of the novel.

Mary Pereira – midwife at the clinic ,

Sees chance to impress her revolutionary lover and switches the name tage on the two baskets .

Amina and Ahmed with childe saleem narrator, while their true child shiva is raised in the slums by a poor singer.

About The God of Small Things:-

This novel set in the Kerala in the 1960s .

It is a story about the childhood experiences of faternal twins whose lives are distroyes by the “love laws”.

This is novel about the two children , Estha anf Rahel.

In magical and poetic language , the novel paints a vivid picture of life in a small rural indian town .

The thoughts and feelings of the two small children , and the complexcity and hipocrisy of the adults in their world.

Facts of Kerala life captured by the novel are Communisim, the caste system ,Keralite Syrian Christian.

Theme of Midnight's children THEME OF TIME :-

- Midnight's children is definitely a time warp.

- Time goes forwards and backwards , up and down ,slantways and sideways .

- The story only follows the linear narrative for moments at that time .

THEME OF FAMILY :-

- Families have gotten pretty non – traditional nowadays , but non traditional as in midnights children.

- here childrens get a switch at birth , parents are created by the children.

- Idea of family is pretty malleable in the novel, but doesnt make it any less important to the characters.

Other thems :

Indian national identity vs. British colonization – indian dispora

Colonialism and gender / power struggle

Theme of The God of Small Thing :- THEMES OF FAMILY :-

- this novel is the more anything else a novel about the family .it explore the relationship.

- Family relstionship in the novel complecated , confusing, and fustrating .

THEMES OF THE SOCITY AND CLASS :-

- The charactes in the novel are constantly coming up against the force of society and class

THEMES OF THE VERSIONS OF REALITY :-

- Through out the novel we get see how things look from different characters point of view – diffrent version of the same reality. Estha and rahel at two very diffrents points in their lives.

THEMES OF MEMORY AND THE PAST : THEME OF INNOCENCE : THEME OF LOVE : THEME OF FEAR : THEME OF IDENTITY : THEME OF MORALITY :

References

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB876868387535477500

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_of_Small_Things

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_the_Booker

https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-57564360/salman-rushdie-s-midnight-s-children-national-narrative

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy

http://www.junglee.com/God-Small-Things-Booker-Arundhati/dp/014302857X

http://www.shmoop.com/god-of-small-things/mortality-theme.html

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