The document discusses a comparison between two Booker Prize-winning novels: 'Midnight's Children' by Salman Rushdie and 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy. It highlights the authors' backgrounds, major themes, and narrative styles, focusing on themes such as family dynamics, social class, and identity. The analysis contextualizes each novel within the framework of post-colonial literature and their unique portrayals of Indian society.

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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.

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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