The God Of Small Things 💫

 

Hey everyone, 

        This blog is based on our paper "Indian Writing" 's unit The God of the small things.

1. To what extent are race and religion important in this text? How far it is important for the society. Give your views.

# Race in the text:

                             In The God of Small Things all the characters especially Major victims faces race. There is main race between the white race and brown race. Everyone regards the English so highly, an Englishman would be incapable of such a travesty–hence the Englishman is more honorable, decent, and virtuous than an Indian man. Roy This internalized racism grows becoming more than a feeling of inferiority to the English. . Despite Velutha’s birth into the Untouchable caste, the author makes clear that the foremost distinction in Velutha is his dark color.  hierarchal distinction of skin color in India. This can be seen in relation to the caste system as well as the family structure. 

# Religion in the text:

     In The God of Small Things', religion is portrayed as a source of tradition, societal conventions, and even conflict. As the novel is set in Kerala, India, there are two main religious forces present - Hinduism and Christianity. The blending of the two, therefore, form an unwitting paradox of values. Ammu's family, for instance, is pre-dominantly Catholic. However, they still respect and observe the Hindu caste system, even as it contradicts the teachings of the Catholic church. While the role of religion in the novel is tangential, it provides an invaluable insight into why the characters act as they do - as, depending on how it is wielded, religion can either be an oppressive or benevolent force. 

               I think as it's 21st century one must have to come out from this rigidity. We are youngsters and future of everyone we must have to believe in equity as well as faith is good but be aware about not to lied in superstition.

2. Which is your favourite character ? Why?

       Ammu is my favourite character among all the characters still I like Velutha too. 

• Ammu is strong and indipendent women.
• Believed in herself and single handedly maintain everything.
• Her past helped her to shape her character.
• She also trying to become best daughter and elder sister.
• She proudly gave devorced his toxic husband and not feeling shameful for this act. Kind of strength you need while you are fighting against the society.
• Ammu want that her both children's upbringing become well.
• Ammu was great lover though she knew that Velutha was from lower cast still she loved him.

3. If you are the author of the text , what changes you would like to make in the text..?

1. First I do change in Ammu's life as she treated well by even his husband as well as other characters.
2. Then I removed the incidents of theatre which was happened with Estha. 
3. Then I also try to save Sophie mol so that children don't faces struggle.
4. I made every character's mindset broader so that they treated lower people in good way.
5. I completed love story of AMMU and Velutha.

4. Two articles about novel .

The children are one of the most vulnerable classes in family and society. They were tormented perpetually in their life in different stages of their life. The theme of trauma is widespread in the novel, The God of Small Things through the deplorable living conditions of the children and the truma in their life. 

        Constriction is another symptom of trauma which is visible in the character of Estha. Out of conscious pricking, Estha agreed with Rahel that it was not Velutha that they saw in History House where Police Officers had attacked him. Earlier, Rahel informed Estha that she was sure, it was not Velutha but his imaginary twin brother, Urumban from Kochi. The writer explains that Estha was initially reluctant to believe and unwilling to seek refuge in imagination. But Baby Kochamma had changed all these things. She had succeeded in bullying Estha into condemning his friend, Velutha. This betrayal was unbearable for the children whom they loved as the God of small things. The guilty feeling Estha felt in his life for betraying an innocent man haunted the whole life. Out of trauma, sometimes Estha whispered in Rahel’s ear that you were right, it was Urumban. For the sake of appeasing his guilty consciousness, Estha finally agreed with Rahel. 

         Significantly, the characters rarely watch the horizon. Instead their eyes are focused on “Small Things” – minute details such as the life of insects – so that they are rarely seen to look forward or far away. The narrative abounds in examples showing striking elaborations on the tiny visual details to which the children are attentive. Estha, while retching, is staring at a basin: “The basin had steel taps and rust stains. A brownwebbed mesh of hairline cracks, like the roadmap of some great intricate city. Thoughts hovered over the . . . Basin City. But the basin men and basin women went on about their usual basin business. Basin cars, and basin buses . . . basin life went on.”  Although the scope is limited to a small basin in a public toilet, the character’s imagination broadens the perspective, so that the idea of the horizon is to be found on a symbolic rather than on a literal level. In The God of Small Things, descriptions rarely embrace a vast horizontal expanse, but jump from one tiny detail to another. The incipit already discloses this preference for discontinuous details and for vertical lines over horizontal ones through the image of the pouring rain: “slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth,” a syntagm in which alliterations in re-enact the same verticality on the micro level of the letter. As a result, the opening description follows a visual, vertical trajectory, leading the eye from the sky to the earth – down the electric poles –, and from the roof of the house down the walls to the “undergrowth” of the garden.

Work cite:

1. Dr. Sibi k. J. "Trauma in Arundhati Roy's The God of the small things'. IJCRT. An international open access, peer-reviewed, Refereed Journal.

2. Sackisick Elsa, "The Horizon in The God of small things by Arundhati Roy: A poetics of lines " Horizon. 2010.