God Of Small Things Analysis

The concerned research article entitled as The Myth of Odimarichil and the Cultural

Resistance of Paraya community in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things focuses on the myth of Odimarichil prevailed amongst the Paraya community in Kerala. The myth is powerfully presented in the novel, indirectly, by projecting Velutha as a demi god of Paraya community. The cynosure of the novel, the death of Sophie Mol, is submerged in the ghettos of Myth of Odimarichil. One of the main problems that comparative study of literature and cultural studies confront is nothing but the lack of professional academic knowledge in Myth and other cultural aspects. The concerned research article is tries to project that Sophie Mol died because of the occult practices

In Arundhati Roy‟s hilarious novel The God of Small Things, this cultural and mythical identity is existed through the Paraya representatives Velutha and Vellaya

Pappan (Velutha‟s father). The cynosure of the novel is Sophie Mol‟s death.

However, Roy never mentioned the reasons of the death in the novel. Instead, she presented the idea with some cryptic remarks like “the burial killed her”. It is assumed that Roy‟s the god of small things in the novel is Veluthapparayan. If Velutha is capable of creating some small things to Ammu‟s siblings, Rahel and Estha, which would be has his destructive small things? The question and its answers are buried in

Karisaippu‟s house and other mysteries shrouded in the novel. As a postcolonial novel, the entity of Sophie Mol is always questioned in the novel, for the indigenous entitities Rahel and Estha are being always questioned because of the racial superiority of Sophie Mol and the superior position she is usurped from the

Ayemanam House where Baby Kochamma and others heralded the alien entity

Sophie Mol over Ammu‟s entity and