Point out Salahuddins‘development during the first two weeks in England The narrative and fictional text “England was a peculiar-tasting smoked fish” is an extract from “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie is about thirteen-year-old Salahuddin, who moves with his father from Bombay in India, to London in England. Salahuddin is the view-point-character, because he is the most complex person in the story. The third person narrator knows everything, like feelings and thoughts, about the young boy, who is on his way to be a man. To underline the feelings of Salahuddin there often is an interior monologue. Especially in the first part of this text the setting is very important for the story, because it takes place in an air-plane. It is a spiritual setting, the boy is deeply influenced by his journey and it is important for the content of the story. The plane is a metaphorical setting, too, because Salahuddin is on his way from childhood to a grown up man. A Plane is also a thing which never stays long at one place, it is always moving, like Salahuddin at the moment. He does not exactly know where he belongs to, on the one hand he reads childish science-fiction-tales and on the other hand he has thoughts like an adult, so he compares the plane to a “metal phallus” (l.17) Salahuddin is excited to go to England, but he does not know what to expect there. He thinks he is chosen by God to move to London (c.l.7) But he is also frightened to go to this “brave, new, world”, too (l.9). To secure himself he tries to convince himself that the “distance between cities is always small” (l.23), to make sure that there is no great difference between England and India. In this first part you can see, that this young boy is very insecure, but also excited because of his new life. When Salahuddin and his father are in London, his Dad gives him a black billfold, which the boy found before, but he had to handle it out to his father. Now Changez gives it back to Salahuddin, but...