Midnight’s Children
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Book 1: The Perforated Sheet
Book 1: Mercurochrome
Book 1: Hit-the-Spittoon
Book 1: Under the Carpet
Book 1: A Public Announcement
Book 1: Many-headed Monsters
Book 1: Methwold
Book 1: Tick, Tock
Book 2: The Fisherman’s Pointing Finger
Book 2: Snakes and Ladders
Book 2: Accident in a Washing-chest
Book 2: All-India Radio
Book 2: Love in Bombay
Book 2: My Tenth Birthday
Book 2: At the Pioneer Café
Book 2: Alpha and Omega
Book 2: The Kolynos Kid
Book 2: Commander Sabarmati’s Baton
Book 2: Revelations
Book 2: Movements Performed by Pepperpots
Book 2: Drainage and the Desert
Book 2: Jamila Singer
Book 2: How Saleem Achieved Purity
Book 3: The Buddha
Book 3: In the Sundarbans
Book 3: Sam and the Tiger
Book 3: The Shadow of the Mosque
Book 3: A Wedding
Book 3: Midnight
Book 3: Abracadabra
Themes
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Truth and Storytelling
British Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Sex and Gender
Identity and Nationality
Fragments and Partitioning
Religion
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Characters
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Saleem Sinai
Shiva
Aadam Aziz
Naseem Ghani / Reverend Mother
Mumtaz Aziz / Amina Sinai
Nadir Khan / Qasim Khan
Ahmed Sinai
The Brass Monkey / Jamila Singer
Mary Pereira
Parvati-the-witch / Laylah
Padma
Aadam Sinai
Major Zulfikar
Tai
William Methwold
Dr. Narlikar
Aadam Aziz’s Mother
Aadam Aziz’s Father
Rani of Cooch Naheen
Mian Abdullah / The Hummingbird
Alia Aziz
Mr. Ghani
Homi Catrack
Evie Burns
The Widow / Indira Gandhi
Brigadier R. E. Dyer
Lafifa Das
Dr. Narlikar’s Women
Terms
All Terms
Ayah
Hartal
Purdah
Tetrapod
Symbols
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Noses
Pickles
Spittoons
Literary Devices
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Allegory
Allusions
Foreshadowing
Frame Story
Genre
Hyperbole
Imagery
Metaphors
Mood
Motifs
Oxymorons
Personification
Satire
Setting
Similes
Style
Tone
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Introduction
Intro
Plot Summary
Plot
Summary & Analysis
Book 1: The Perforated Sheet
Book 1: Mercurochrome
Book 1: Hit-the-Spittoon
Book 1: Under the Carpet
Book 1: A Public Announcement
Book 1: Many-headed Monsters
Book 1: Methwold
Book 1: Tick, Tock
Book 2: The Fisherman’s Pointing Finger
Book 2: Snakes and Ladders
Book 2: Accident in a Washing-chest
Book 2: All-India Radio
Book 2: Love in Bombay
Book 2: My Tenth Birthday
Book 2: At the Pioneer Café
Book 2: Alpha and Omega
Book 2: The Kolynos Kid
Book 2: Commander Sabarmati’s Baton
Book 2: Revelations
Book 2: Movements Performed by Pepperpots
Book 2: Drainage and the Desert
Book 2: Jamila Singer
Book 2: How Saleem Achieved Purity
Book 3: The Buddha
Book 3: In the Sundarbans
Book 3: Sam and the Tiger
Book 3: The Shadow of the Mosque
Book 3: A Wedding
Book 3: Midnight
Book 3: Abracadabra
Themes
All Themes
Truth and Storytelling
British Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Sex and Gender
Identity and Nationality
Fragments and Partitioning
Religion
Quotes
Characters
All Characters
Saleem Sinai
Shiva
Aadam Aziz
Naseem Ghani / Reverend Mother
Mumtaz Aziz / Amina Sinai
Nadir Khan / Qasim Khan
Ahmed Sinai
The Brass Monkey / Jamila Singer
Mary Pereira
Parvati-the-witch / Laylah
Padma
Aadam Sinai
Major Zulfikar
Tai
William Methwold
Dr. Narlikar
Aadam Aziz’s Mother
Aadam Aziz’s Father
Rani of Cooch Naheen
Mian Abdullah / The Hummingbird
Alia Aziz
Mr. Ghani
Homi Catrack
Evie Burns
The Widow / Indira Gandhi
Brigadier R. E. Dyer
Lafifa Das
Dr. Narlikar’s Women
Terms
All Terms
Ayah
Hartal
Purdah
Tetrapod
Symbols
All Symbols
Noses
Pickles
Spittoons
Lit Devices
All Literary Devices
Allegory
Allusions
Foreshadowing
Frame Story
Genre
Hyperbole
Imagery
Metaphors
Mood
Motifs
Oxymorons
Personification
Satire
Setting
Similes
Style
Tone
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Theme Viz
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