Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Comparisons
I find it interesting that the two daughters born into one family are so opposite. One daughter represents shame while the other daughter represents the lack of shame. I was wondering about Omar’s family, and how he represents the lack of shame, and would that make his brother become the representative shame? Another interesting fact is that Omar was named after a poet, and was not poetic, but his brother, who was not named after a poet, is the one who made attempts at being poetic. Rushdie appears to purposefully make these drastically opposing comparisons between relatives, and I wonder what is his ultimate reason for these comparisons?
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I think his reason for these comparisons is to contrast the really big themes in a book against each other. He is creating foil characters to feed off of each other in order to highlight their character and the themes they represent. The author could also be doing this to make some sort of emphasis on identity or names.
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