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“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
INTRODUCTION
The God of Small Things is a novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy. This novel is debut novel of Arundhati Roy and known for wining booker prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the English-language literary world. Roy started writing her first novel (The God of Small Things) in 1992 and novel got completed in 1996. The publication of “The God of Small Things” catapulted Roy to international fame. It was listed as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year for 1997. It reached fourth position on the New York Times Bestsellers list …show more content…

“The God of Small Things” consists of two primary interlinked storylines. One is that of the family in Aymenem and their day-to-day affairs. The other concerns itself with the protagonist 's first meeting with her fraternal twin after a gap of twenty-three years. In between, there are other secondary plotlines chronicling the stories of the other characters. “The God of Small Things” is an ambitious novel that portray universal theme ranging from religion to biology. Roy stress throughout the novel that small and big things are interlinked. The novel is able to comment on the issue simultaneously on, abstract themes, universal and a wide variety of ideas relating to the individual and family history of the members of the Kochamma family as well as the wider concerns of the Kerala region of India. Most striking feature of this novel is its innovation in linguistic that the writer make. It have also a major theme “love-laws” which means “who should be loved, and how. And how much”. This book is collection of stories of small things that shape different character in the novel. Rahel and Estha look at the difficulties and complexities of …show more content…

Indian society was structured for centuries according to very rigid social classes and boundaries and it gave birth to caste system in India. The rigidity of caste system come in limelight when writer describes about a character Velutha who belongs to Paravans, and works at their pickle factory.
In Mammachi’s time paravans, like other Untouchable were not allowed to walk on public roads, not allowed to cover their upper bodies, not allowed to carry umbrellas. They had to put their hand over their mouths when they spoke to divert the polluted breath away from those whom they addressed. (Roy, 1997,

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