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Midnight’s Children is about India’s change from British colonialism to Independence. It regards as an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism. The story is represented through several characters and it is precedes by real historical incidents as with historical fiction. In this novel, Rushdie symbolically represents the story with moral about the events in India both before and after the Independence and partition of India, especially the incidents happened during the midnight on 15 August 1947. Rushdie’s works reflect his own experiences and through his works he shows the sufferings and difficulties of immigrants and how the immigrants search for their self development and how they felt strange experiences when they got new relations with land, family, community and nation during migration. Rushdie occupies a prestigious position as a migrant intellectual and the main characteristic feature of his writing is its self- consciousness with an analysis of the cultural locations from which it is written.