Comment on the narrative technique of Midnight's Children.

The narrative technique of the story is in first person. 
It is told from Saleem's point of view and we understand the history of Indian
independence, Partition, and all that follows through his eyes.  Yet, it is within this
that the greatness of the themes and story itself lies.  Saleem is an unreliable
narrator.  He makes many errors in trying to be the sole font of knowledge and solitary
light that guides the reader through the darkness that is called "history."  The
narrative technique of first person fraught with errors is a deliberate attempt on
Rushdie's part to bring to light the idea of subjectivity having limits but being the
only guide one has.  Rushdie has written that the work itself should not be seen as
totalizing as history, but rather be seen as art, as an example of how individuals have
only their own subjectivity to guide them.  This is evidenced in Rushdie's embrace of
Saleem as the sole narrator.  Although he makes obvious and subtle mistakes, we, as the
reader, can only rely on him to help provide understanding through the emotional and
political complexities of the time.  We are thus left with a powerful stylistic and
thematic statement in how human freedom is futile at many points, but it is all that one
has in the modern setting.