This blog task is assigned as thinking activity on Arundhati Roy's novel, "The God of Small Things".
Q - TO WHAT EXTENT ARE RACE, SOCIAL CLASS, AND RELIGION IMPORTANT IN THE TEXT? HOW FAR DO YOU THiNK ABOUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE SOCIETY. GIVE YOUR VIEWS!
In the novel "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy, race, social class, and caste are important themes. Roy aims to challenge the harmful social hierarchy of caste through her storytelling. She suggests that if society accepted the relationship between Velutha and Ammu, they could have had a happy life together with their twins, Rahel and Estha. However, societal norms and Baby Kochamma, Ammu's aunt, play a significant role in driving them apart, leading to tragic consequences. Velutha is falsely accused and beaten to death by the police, leaving the twins orphaned. Roy highlights how stubborn societal attitudes and individuals like Baby Kochamma can disrupt lives.
Q - WHICH IS YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER?AND WHY?
My favorite character is Ammu. She's incredibly strong and resilient throughout the novel, even until her death. One of the reasons I admire her is how she courageously divorces her first husband, Baba, without hesitation, all for the sake of her children. She's determined to provide them with a better life. What's even more inspiring is how she learns from her past and becomes a better version of herself. Her journey of growth and perseverance makes her a truly remarkable character.
Q - IF YOU ARE AUTHOR WHAT CHANGES YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IN THE TEXT?
I Would like to Make few Changes in the novel.
Baby kocchmma is the main character who is responsible for the separation of Ammu and Velutha so I would end her Character mid way in novel.
second, I think that Velutha should have more Stronger and courageous as he did nothing against the false charge of kidnapping the childrens.
if we Altered the Castes of Ammu and Velutha then What would happen!?
Q - FIND TWO SCHOLORY ARTICALS. SUMMARISE IT AND CITE IT.
"Set in Kerala in the 1960s, this Booker Prize winner follows Ammu’s family through both ordinary and tragic events, focusing most memorably on her “two-egg twins,” Estha and Rahel. The accidental death by drowning of a visiting English cousin is to have a pivotal effect on their young lives. The novel is told in nonlinear time through a jigsaw of vivid encounters and descriptions, recounted in exquisite prose. The reader pieces together a childhood world that is interrupted by adult tragedies and the effect these have on Velutha, the twins’ boatman friend who belongs to India’s “untouchable” caste".(CURTIS)
The question of borders, and how they are constantly blurred, lies at the heart of The God of Small Things, not only as regards the identity of the main characters and the social boundaries of castes, but also with respect to the novel’s narrative pattern and Roy’s creative experimentations with the English language. In The God of Small Things, the horizon can be apprehended as a boundary, a line separating the land and the sea from the sky, but also joining them, since it is the place where they seemingly meet. The horizon will thus be analysed as a geometrical line in its relation to both horizontality and verticality, and also as a boundary. Although the horizon is literally absent from the novel, it becomes re-inscribed on the figurative level, and subsequently becomes a place for transgression and creation, inscribing a Deleuzean line of flight for language to follow and reinvent itself.(SACKSICK)
Work Cited
- Curtis, Abi, The God of Small Things, Britanicca.com.
- Sacksick, Elsa, The horizon in the god of the small things, journals.openedition.org, 2010
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