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The God of Small Things
It didn't matter that the story had begun, because Kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The God of Small Things is a 1997 Booker...
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The God of Small Things
This passage talks about Ammu dreaming of a one-armed man who can only do one thing at a time; she half-wakes from her dream and can sense her children there, trying to decide whether they should...
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The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is very much a novel about what it means to be colonized. Specifically, Arundhati Roy looks at how individual Indian characters respond to the fallout of India's having been...
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The God of Small Things
The most important relationship that Roy suggests between the caste system and the ideals of the Communist party is that both are equally hypocritical and corrupting. The story is set in the Indian...
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The God of Small Things
Roy's novel can be viewed as a complete indictment of patriarchy. Male-dominiation in all things is the norm in India, whether the domination be in the realm of political, social, or financial...
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The God of Small Things
It is an interesting question to consider how much a work of fiction reflects the life and concerns of its author. When we examine this excellent novel in this light, we are able to detect some...
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The God of Small Things
The novel The God of Small Things is author Arundhati Roy's most well-known work, published in 1997. The story is centered on a Syrian family living in southern India from the 1960s to the 1990s....
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The God of Small Things
This is clearly a big topic with lots of aspects to it. There are plenty of examples of suffering in the novel, and you might want to think about how suffering is experienced by the following pairs...
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The God of Small Things
It would be worth your while to re-read Chapter 11 of this incredible novel, entitled "The God of Small Things." One of the key aspects of Roy's style that is employed throughout the book is the...
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The God of Small Things
One of the key aspects of this novel is its narrative structure and the way that Roy presents the reader with two characters who are tortured by an event in the past, and their complicity in that...
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The God of Small Things
This novel is certainly not lacking in literary features. Roy shows herself to use an absolute plethora to describe and paint the picture of what she wants to convey to her readers. I will pick...
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The God of Small Things
To understand Arundhati Roy’s novel of India, The God of Small Things, one needs some appreciation of the ancient culture that continues to define that country. India’s is a caste system;...
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The God of Small Things
I think that one element of social realism that is present in Roy's work is how political and authoritarian establishments do not necessarily work for the best ends of the people. These...
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The God of Small Things
The importance of the illimba tree in this book is that it marks the place and also the moment when Sophie Mol drowns and dies. It is when Sophie Mol leads her Indian cousins, Estha and Rahel, on...
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The God of Small Things
In this excellent novel Arundhati Roy seems to turn her rapier-like wit and intellect on many aspects of modern Indian life, as well as traditional Indian life. You might like to consider how she...
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The God of Small Things
Ammu first mentions the idea of “The God of Small Things” in Chapter 11, after she has a dream of a man with one arm holding her close. Not only is the man holding her close, but Ammu and this man...
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The God of Small Things
One of the first instances that religion becomes a factor in the story is when Baby Kochamma falls in love with Father Mulligan, a Catholic Priest, and moves to the convent in order to be closer to...
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The God of Small Things
This is one of my favourite all-time novels, so well done for studying it! You have asked a very important question, as obviously the title that an author gives to their work is a very important...
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The God of Small Things
One of the major issues that is presented in this excellent novel is that of caste and social stratification. Velutha is an "untouchable," a Dalit who occupies the lowest social stratum of Indian...
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The God of Small Things
You have identified an incredibly important aspect of the way in which this unforgettable novel is written. What is distinct about the narrative style of Roy in this book is that she abandons a...
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The God of Small Things
I would say that Roy places a great deal of weight on how the social stratification of a nation can impact its people. The divisions caused by race, class, and religion are ones that occupy...
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The God of Small Things
Diasporic literature is a genre characterized by the gulf between a homeland and an adopted country. In these works, characters often face the isolation of belonging neither to the cultures they...
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The God of Small Things
Since caste and class are related in the novel, I will answer both together. The novel concerns a couple, Ammu and Velutha, who break the Love Laws--a touchable Ammu (upper class/higher caste)...
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The God of Small Things
The elements you have highlighted are inextricably intertwined with the themes of the novel. Note how one of the central plot elements, the affair between Ammu and Velutha, breaks so many taboos....
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The God of Small Things
I don't know if the copy I have of this novel corresponds to yours in terms of page numbers. I recommend that you visit the pages suggested by your teacher in the question to double-check which...
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The God of Small Things
Yes, very much so. Set in Kerala, India, the novel shows the devastation that occurs within a family as a result of the love affair between the twins' mother (Ammu) and an Untouchable (Velutha)....
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The God of Small Things
In many ways you answered the first question with the second. The last scene between Ammu and Velutha is quite poignant and quite graphic. Roy spares no detail in describing the physical love...
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The God of Small Things
This is a tough question because of the intricate nature of Roy's work. She provides no easy answers. In my mind, I think that if there is one source of evil or a location for it, the class...
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The God of Small Things
It seems to me that the most overwhelming aspect of the cruelty at the hands of the class segregation system lies in the reality that individual action is motivated by its adherence over all else....
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The God of Small Things
This is a fairly sensitive issue and will not have a reductive and easy answer. There are some fundamental issues that need to be addressed here. Some of them are in the context of Roy's novel...