Something I noticed while reading through Midnight’s Children was Saleem’s seeming obsession with making himself the center of everything. There is even an instance in the chapter “All-India Radio” where Saleem is remarking on the fact that he had Ghandi’s assassination on the wrong date. During this error in memory, he states “Am I so far gone, in my desperate need for meaning, that I’m prepared to distort everything – to re-write the whole history of my times purely in order to place myself in a central role?” It absolutely seems like Saleem is willing to place himself in the center of everything in his history. There are multiple times where he claims he was to blame for both good and bad things happening around him. Things where his father has a successful business venture, or his mother wins money gambling, Saleem claims responsibility for these actions. He even places himself at the center of the fight between The Monkey and Evie, claiming they clearly fought over him. It seems Saleem just can’t help but force himself upon people, whether it be within his story telling of events, or his invading of their minds through telepathy.