Theme

One of the main themes I’ve noticed thus far in Midnight’s Children would be the unreliability of memory and of narratives. Throughout the novel, Saleem acknowledges that he remembers things wrong or presents factual errors, like an election date. He is honest about his errors and uses them to progress the story and one of the overall ideas he is trying to get across in the novel, that truth is a matter of different perspectives and not just facts. One person’s truth could be different than another person’s and I believe that is what Saleem is trying to prove as he tells his story. Saleem even notices that memory creates its own truth, and that anything can be anyone’s truth as long as they believe in it.