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Question: The elements in Salem Rushdie's work "The Perforated Sheet" are contemporary in style, which is the first thing to comprehend. Texts from the modern era frequently combine complicated ideas or components. "The Perforated Sheet" is a narrative with multiple topics rather than a single overarching theme. The ideas of memory, society vs. man (many vs. one), destruction and creation are a few, but not all of them.The plot would collapse without these ideas because they are so entwined with one another. Characters or narrators have a major role in contemporary works. In this instance, the tale starts with him as a little boy. This narrator can be deemed untrustworthy due to their personal connection, bias, and the fact that they are only recounting events from their own perspective and memory. I'll repeat it again: memory's truth, because memory has its own unique sort. Salem even provides an example in his second section of "The Perforated Sheet," "At the Pioneer Cafe." In the end, it generates its own reality, its varied but generally consistent interpretations of events, and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own. It chooses, removes, modifies, exaggerates, minimizes, praises, and vilifies as well. He employs a wide range of issues, literary techniques, realism, and character development to drive the plot. A character is a character whether or not the character is himself.