Midnight children's content summary

Midnight's Children is narrated in the first person.

I (Salim Bamboo Knife) am the most powerful child in the middle of the night. My grandfather Aziz is a Kashmiri, studying medicine in Germany. He is a witness to India's modern history. He gave my family both the ancient cultural background of India and the free spirit of modern western civilization. My mother aminah is my grandfather's second daughter. Her ex-husband left her to escape the military arrest, leaving a divorce certificate before leaving. Aminah later married Ahmed Hinai, a businessman from Delhi. They are my parents. At the beginning of 1947, as the partition date of India approached, the sectarian conflict between Hindus and Muslims intensified day by day and bloodshed continued. In the Muslim area where Hinai lived, at the critical moment of a conflict, pregnant aminah stepped forward to stop the impulsive people in this area and save the life of a Hindu youth. In order to save his life, the young man asked his cousin to read Amino's palm and predict her child's future. The prophet said that a child would have two heads and grow old before he died. Aminah was frightened by these incomprehensible predictions, but they all came true after many years. Ravana, a Hindu violent organization, extorted ransom from Muslim entrepreneurs such as cinar, claiming that their businesses would be set on fire if they didn't pay. Hinai and others failed to give the money to the blackmailer because of their mistakes, and as a result, the enterprise was burned. Afterwards, Hinai listened to the advice of his old friend Dr. Nal ricard and took advantage of the fact that a large number of British people left the country, and the real estate in Mumbai was as cheap as dust, so he bought real estate in Yumai and moved to Mumbai. Aminah is in labor in a clinic in Nal ricard. At the same time, the singer Moon Hee's wife is about to give birth. In fact, her future child is the product of her affair with her British grandfather Meswald.

1At 0: 00 on August 5th, 947, when India celebrated its independence, two children were born at the same time in this private clinic. In the hustle and bustle, Mary, a nurse who hates the rich, stole the famous brands of two newborn babies when people were unprepared, so that the children of poor families had rich families, and the children of rich families had poor families' childhood. So I became the singer's child, and the singer's son Shiva (the name of the Hindu god of destruction) was aminah's own flesh and blood. This mystery was solved after 10 years. I was taken back to Shinai's home. As I was born in India, my photo was published in The Times of India, and I also received a handwritten trade letter from Prime Minister Nehru. The letter said that my life would be a mirror of new India in a sense. Mary is a nurse, originally to please her lover, radical Philip, but later found out that Philip had abandoned her. She regretted her sin and dared not admit it. In order to atone, she recommended herself as my wet nurse. When Mary lived in my house, she found someone moving in the abandoned clock tower in the middle of the night. She was very scared and called the police. The police found the wanted man, Philip, and shot him. The clock tower was his explosive magazine. Mary regretted all her life.

I have been telepathic since I was 9 years old, and then I can talk to midnight children all over the country every night and concentrate all their souls in my heart for meetings. From different castes. Children of all religions, classes and social groups talk about their lives and ideals and express their views on various issues at this conference, so this conference has truly become the epitome of modern Indian society. Some of these midnight children can change their size at will, some can shuttle freely in the long river of time, some can go in and out of the mirror at will, some can change their sex at will, some can fly higher than birds, and some can run faster than the wind ... but Shiva and I have the greatest strength. My soul can enter anyone's brain and know people's worries, while Shiva has strong knees and is invincible in the war. Growing up in poverty, he was born with the concept of attaching importance to material interests and a cruel character. His father tried to break his knee so that he could have a begging income, but he broke his father's wrist with his knee. When discussing how to solve the existing social problems, I advocate that all midnight children unite as one and transform society with kindness, while Shiva advocates violence. There is a leadership struggle between him and me.

My father suddenly became empty-handed because of his investment mistakes, and he has since fallen into a decadent life of fighting for wine. And impotence made his relationship with aminah worse. I found out that my mother was secretly dating her ex-husband, Nadir, a red molecule, and decided to warn her to stop her from learning other people's experiences. I have long found out that Laila, the wife of neighbor and admiral Saba Marti, was having an affair with Katrak, the king of movies, so I informed the general himself in a secret letter. Imagine that this move actually led the general to kill the film actor and seriously injured his wife, and he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. When I was fighting with my classmates, I broke a finger in an accident. During the hospital treatment, I found that my blood type was different from my parents'. This incident, together with the urging of Philip's ghost, finally made Mary tell the true feelings of the switch. Hinai suspected that aminah was unfaithful, but at this time he insulted her even more. This made my grandmother unbearable. She took aminah, my brothers and sisters and my newly widowed aunt Pia to Pakistan to meet General Zulficar, the son-in-law who has become a senior general in Pakistan. As a relative of the general, I participated in the planning and action of the military to overthrow the government and carry out a military coup, and was appreciated by the later Pakistani President General Ayub Khan.

1962, the Sino-Indian border conflict, midnight children are more and more influenced by their social groups, and the contradiction tends to intensify. The midnight meeting was in chaos, and most of the children retired in disappointment and returned to their own life circles. The meeting existed in name only. After the armistice, my parents tricked me into the hospital and forced me to have a nose operation, which made me lose the ability to communicate with midnight children. After the war, my father was desperate for India and my family moved to Pakistan. Before I left, I put my birthday photos, Premier's letters and other souvenirs in a broken globe and buried them in the garden, which marked the end of my spiritual contact with midnight children. I grew up in Pakistan, participated in the India-Pakistan war and witnessed the cruelty of the war. Later, as a deserter and refugee, I met a midnight child, the witch parvati. She put me in a magic basket, escaped the police and took me to India. I also met Shiva, a war hero, an Indian officer who became the object of worship in the India-Pakistan war. Parvati loved him, but he abandoned her. Finally, parvati married me with Shiva's son. During the years when the emergency law was implemented in India, most of Midnight and I became a menace to Mrs Gandhi, so we were persecuted, and only Shiva was successful in her official career. But after Mrs Gandhi stepped down, he also became a prisoner. Later, the wife of an abandoned steel king broke into the prison and killed him with a pistol. And I'm old before I get old, just like the fortune teller said. But I hope the future generation.