Today in this blog we will see a masterpiece work written by Indian contemporary writer Arundhati Roy named The God of Small Things. This is a novel by Arundhati Roy. It was published in 1997. It was written between 1992 and 1996 in New Delhi. Its setting is in Kerala, and its point of view is third-person omniscient.
The biggest influence on writer Arundhati Roy was her contemporary British Indian writer Salman Rashidi.
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Friends, this novel has received the Booker Prize in 1997. In this novel, Arundhati Roy tries to show how small incidents in life affect our entire life. There is still Marxism in some states in India, Kerala is one of them.
Friends, this novel is a fiction and a drama. This novel has been criticized a lot and it has also received the Booker Price.
You will know its reason at the end. Before sorting this novel, let me tell you what is in this novel.
In this novel, there are rules for love in society as to how much one should love. This novel destroys those rules
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Do we have to follow society’s dictates as to how much we should love? This story starts with a village named Ayemenem in Kerala. A very wealthy Christian family lives in this town. This is the story of two brothers and sisters, The brother’s name is Estha, and the sister’s name is Rahel. They live with their mother Ammu in this family. The age of both of them is 7 years.
This Ammu’s mother’s name is Mammachi, and his brother’s Name is Chacko. And they have an aunt living with them whose name is Baby Kochamma. So this is the whole family of wealthy people.
There is a background of this family, and there is a history, this family had two husbands and wives in the past.
Mammachi and Pappachi. Pappachi was not a good husband, he used to beat his wife Mammachi.
What work did he do? He used to study insects. Mammachi and Pappachi had two children, the daughter’s name was Jammu and the son’s name was Chacko. He was rich and went to England to study at Oxford. He meets a girl, Margaret, an English girl. He marries her.
(Indian book recommendations )He has a daughter named Sophie from Margaret but Chacko’s marriage with Margaret does not last long and Margaret leaves him and marries a man named Joe. After this Chacko returns to his village Ayemenem.And after coming here he takes care of his family business. His family’s business is a pickle factory.
His sister was Ammu. She also married a man named Baba to get out of this village. But Baba turned out to be a drunkard and an abusive man who used to beat her. Baba used to beat him a lot She gave birth to two children from Baba. Twins Setha and Rahal After that Baba makes a grave mistake and asks Ammu to sleep with his master but Ammu refuses.
After that Baba beats Ammu a lot and then Ammu leaves Baba and returns to her village Ayemenem. His brother is also in Ayemenem. He is also in Ayemenem. Both his children are also in Ayemenem. The whole family is in Ayemenem.
So this is the background of this whole family. Now this story goes back to 1969, In those days the Communist Party was becoming powerful in Kerala. This was a family, they were wealthy landlords. So these communists wanted to destroy families like these. A low-caste man used to work in the factory of this family. This is a young man whose name was Velutha. Chacko learns that his wife, Margaret, had married a man named Joe and he died. Then Chacko seeing this opportunity, called his daughters Sophie and Margaret to his village for a holiday. Now the whole family goes to pick up Sophie and Margaret. On the way, a communist group comes in front of their car. This group was marching.
they go to Threater and after that, They, watch a movie named Sound of Music. The next day Sophie and Margaret arrive at the airport. He brings the entire family back to his village Ayemenem. He was scared of a man selling orange drinks in Estha Theater Then Rahel took him for a tour of her history house in a boat. There was a lot of love between these two brothers and sisters. Ammu gets attracted to Velutha These two spend the night together. Ammu met Valutha every night for the next two weeks.
Finally one day Valutha’s father comes to Mammachi and tells him that his daughter is in a relationship with his son. will do a lot more in my life and we will done(Indian book recommendations ).