I noticed that both Roy and Rushdie have employed the tactic of false suspense. With Rushdie we wait until halfway through the book for the main character to be born. While we wait we are given a whole bunch of lead up, then it happens like nothing. In Roy's book, we are waiting too. We are waiting and waiting foremost for Sophie Mol to arrive (pg. 157) We already know she will arrive and she will die from very beginning of the book. Kind of like we know Saleem will be born on the stroke of midnight from his first page. In Roy's we are also waiting for the forbidden love.
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