here my ppt on comparison between to booker winner novel The God of small Things and Midnight's children

1. 
Name : Jethwa Monali
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Semster : 3 , M.A
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Paper : 11 The Post-colonial literature
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Submitted : Dept.of .English
M.K.B.U
Emailid : monalijethwa19@gmail.com
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Topic : Comparision between two booker prize winner novel
The God Of Small Things and Midnight's children.

2. Introduction about both the author :
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Midnight's children
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Salman Rusdies
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Born 19 june 1947
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British Indian novelist , essayist
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Much of his fiction is set on the
Indian subcontinant
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The God of Small Thing
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Arundhati Roy
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Born 24 november 1961
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Indian novelist ,activist
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Politicalactivist- involved in
human rights-environmental
causes.

3. Booker winner prize
Midnight's children
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Won the Booker prize for fiction
in1981
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The winner chosen by public vote,
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Announced on july 10 at London
Literature Festival.
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James Tait Black Memorial booker
prize 1981
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Booker of Bookers Prize 1993, which
commemorated the award's 25th
anniversary.
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The best all time prize winner 2008
celebrating in the 40th
anniversary.
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An Arts council Writers Award.

4. 
The God of Small
Thing
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Arundhati's
novel booker
prize winner
1997
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National film
award for best

5. About Midnight's children
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At midnight on aug 15, 1947
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Two boys are born in a Bombay hospital,
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Where they are switched by a nurse.
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Around that time thousand children were born ,
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They are midnigh children .
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Saleem the narrator of the novel.
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Mary Pereira – midwife at the clinic ,
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Sees chance to impress her revolutionary lover and switches the name tage on the
two baskets .
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Amina and Ahmed with childe saleem narrator, while their true child shiva is
raised in the slums by a poor singer.

6. About The God of Small Things:-
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This novel set in the Kerala in the 1960s .
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It is a story about the childhood experiences of faternal twins whose lives are
distroyes by the “love laws”.
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This is novel about the two children , Estha anf Rahel.
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In magical and poetic language , the novel paints a vivid picture of life in a small
rural indian town .
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The thoughts and feelings of the two small children , and the complexcity and
hipocrisy of the adults in their world.
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Facts of Kerala life captured by the novel are Communisim, the caste system
,Keralite Syrian Christian.

7. Theme of Midnight's children
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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 .
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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.
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Other thems :
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Indian national identity vs. British colonization – indian dispora
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Colonialism and gender / power struggle

8. Theme of The God of Small Thing :-
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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 .
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THEMES OF THE SOCITY AND CLASS :-
- The charactes in the novel are constantly coming up against the force of society and
class
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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.

9. 
THEMES OF MEMORY AND THE PAST :
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THEME OF INNOCENCE :
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THEME OF LOVE :
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THEME OF FEAR :
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THEME OF IDENTITY :
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THEME OF MORALITY :

10. References
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB876868387535477500
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_of_Small_Thing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_the_Book
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-57564360
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