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c) Why does Lizzie react with such scepticism to Fevvers' enthusiastic speech about women's liberation? Activity



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c)
Why does Lizzie react with such scepticism to Fevvers' enthusiastic speech about
women's liberation?
Activity
1.2.
Read through this extract from Book 1, Chapter 1, "The perforated sheet", of Salman
Rushdie's 
Midnight's Children
(1981) several times before attempting the questions which
follow it.
"I was born in the city of Bombay... once upon a time. No, that won't do, there's no
getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar's Nursing Home on August
15th, 1947. And the time? The time matters, too. Well then: at night. No, it's important
to be more... On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. Clock-hands joined palms
in respectful greeting as I came. Oh, spell it out, spell it out: at the precise instant of
India's arrival at independence, I tumbled forth into the world. There were gasps. And,
outside the window, fireworks and crowds. A few seconds later, my father broke his big
toe; but his accident was a mere trifle when set beside what had befallen me in that
benighted moment, because thanks to the occult tyrannies of those blandly saluting
clocks I had been mysteriously handcuffed to history, my destinies indissolubly chained
to those of my country. For the next three decades, there was to be no escape. Soothsayers
had prophesied me, newspapers celebrated my arrival, politicos ratified my authenticity.
I was left entirely without a say in the matter. I, Saleem Sinai, later variously called
Snotnose, Stainface, Baldy, Sniffer, Buddha and even Piece-of-the-Moon, had become
heavily embroiled in Fate –at the best of times a dangerous sort of involvement. And I
couldn't even wipe my nose at the time."
a)
This is the beginning of 
Midnight's Children
. Why is the narrator dissatisfied with the
phrase "once upon a time"? Why won't the phrase do?

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