The God of Small Things

First of all, let me to talk about two little events: The first one was in 1997. The indian activist and writer Arundhati Roy, published a book tittled «The God of Small Things». Some of you you can have read it, but in case you haven't done so already, don't worry: I'm not going to spoil it. The book sets in the town of Ayemenem in Kerala, India. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins and describes the life of an Indian girl (the author) and her brother. Roy captures the children's observations. Through the girl’s eyes you are shown family dynamics of India which are all about keeping up the appearances. The book explores how the small things affect people's behavior and their lives. Now, the second one: In the…

populations, even in a postcolonial world, are taught that their cultures are inferior to their colonizer, they are unworthy of being loved because of the color of their skin and their subsequent cultural practices, The God of Small Things is a postcolonial semi-biographical Indian novel, and Arundhati Roy’s debut novel tackles several of these identity shaping struggles. It is astounding that The God of Small Things critical acclaim is still valid in regards to the cultural relevance and…

The caste system has been in India for thousands of years. It has been legally outlawed but still has pull in society to this day. In Roy’s book the theme is that society is an ugly thing. Love and family are unable to triumph over the class boundaries. Ammu and Velutha, like many others who have tried to love across classes end up paying a heavy price. In The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy she develops the story and leads us to the theme through three literary elements. Roy uses the way…

The book received Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and got national and international recognition and was published in different languages. The God of small things mainly focused the condition of life in a single family but it has a global messages and global awareness on male hegemony and caste Discrimination in India. In her book The God of Small things she has written the story which is the reflection of male dominated society and how female are exploited by male during the…

The characters of the two novels Persepolis and The God of Small Things are portrayed in such a way that it is evident for the reader that their personalities are high influenced by other characters of the story. Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi is an autobiographical graphic novel while The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is pure fiction though the setting is in the village she was born in. The significant thing that relates these novels is that both Arundhati and Marjane are women…

Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is a story about trauma. Told through a series of nonlinear flashbacks, the reader learns of the effects of the event known as “The Terror” long before the narrative reveals its causes. As the novel progresses, the reader is able to piece together not only the events which directly lead to the death of Sophie Mol (and Velutha) and the emptiness and quietness of the twin main characters, Rahel and Estha, but also the societal and cultural systems at play…

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is a novel that showcases a family that has to deal with domestic abuse, divorce, incest, rape, and many more issues. This family has been through it all. They know the meaning of the word suffering. Baby Kochamma, the baby aunt of the family, has specifically gone through many issues including heartbreak and failure. These experiences drive her to jealousy against her family members who, in actuality, have just as or more difficult lives as her. In the…

In The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, the love laws intervene with the family’s social life because the characters cross their social boundaries for love which breaks these laws that are set up by the caste system in India. The Kochamma family lives in Ayemenem where the caste system is dictated. Each member of the Kochamma family, Ammu, Estha, Rahel, Chacko, Baby Kochamma, Mammachi, and Pappachi, have a downfall due to the caste system, the Love Laws. The Love Laws are rules…

Introduction: Arundhati Roy, the first Indian woman writer to have won the Man Booker Prize in 1997 for her debut novel The God of Small Things, has chosen to employ language psychologically, typographically, structurally, and culturally in order to create characters and represent the Indian sensibility in all its cultural dimensions. Language is not only employed to mean the spoken or written words but also the way cultural groups understand and communicate to one another through customs and…

In The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, readers get a far share of revelations that are accompanied by concealment, thus proving the gap between the text and the reader. Right from the start, the readers are thrown into present day Ayemenem, where they learn the fate of the twins, but have to work backwards to figure out the events that led to the present day. The writing style of the novel aids the readers in filling in the gaps by jumping in and out of the past and present. These out of…