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The God of Small Things

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The God of Small Things	comment	The God of Small Things is Arundhati Roy's bitter, funny, and heart-wrenching novel about the ruin of an Indian family through a mesh of tradition, prejudice, politics, and the meddling of a bitter spinster great-aunt. It is told out of sequence, spanning several generations, with the bulk of the story centered around the childhood of Rahel and Estha, fraternal twins who are separated at the age of seven after the death of their cousin, Sophie Mol.Half-English and all-privileged, Sophie Mol arrives in Ayemenem, India, after the death of her stepfather. Her mother's sensationalizing of the local customs infuriates Ammu, the mother of the twins; filled with the conflicted indignation with the rape of her culture simultaneously as that culture repeatedly stifles and nullifies all that she is as a woman and a single mother, she runs for comfort to the arms of the beautiful untouchable servant working for her family. Baby Kochamma, the spiteful great aunt who hates Ammu's ability to cope with life without a husband, finds out about the affair and, petrified of what consequences it could have on the family name, decides to put a stop to it.Luckily for her, the disappearance of Sophie Mol in a heavy storm gives her a pretext on which she can have Velutha the Untouchable carted off to prison and out of their lives, but what she does not account for is that Velutha's political party makes him a very dangerous target. Forced to either provide corroboration or admit her lie and be legally responsible for a false accusation, Baby Kochamma coerces the twins into testifying against Velutha by telling them that their mother's freedom depended on their account. Estha agrees to testify and does so, only to experience a horrific realization.
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The God of Small Things / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Ipes. Pappachi is abusive and tyrannical, Mammachi is domineering and distrustful of Untouchables, Baby Kochamma is a spiteful Manipulative Bitch, Ammu is something of a social climber, Chacko is a has-been with broken dreams, depression and delusions of grandeur, and the twins—who bear the brunt of it all—eventually take it by shutting down, withdrawing from the world, and seeking solace only in each other—romantically. One could be forgiven for sensing a Lannister vibe in this family.
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The God of Small Things / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Some of the scenes told (in third-person limited) from the children's point of view contain elements of this, most notably Sophie Mol's funeral.
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The God of Small Things / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: On the way to Cochin to see The Sound of Music, the twins see Velutha marching in a Communist Party demonstration. He playfully denies it and jokes that it was his twin brother. Later, when Estha sees Velutha beaten up to the point of dying at the police station, the twins half-heartedly attempt to deny this by claiming that Velutha's twin brother had been beat up instead.
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The God of Small Things / int_5e032315	comment	One-Book Author: Until 2017, when Roy came out with The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
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The God of Small Things / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: How Velutha received his fatal wounds
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The God of Small Things / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Take your pick. "A [fill-in-the-blank]-shaped Hole in the Universe," and "seye rieht ni nataS" are common. Plus, for some unfathomable reason, everything associated with The Sound of Music is described as peppermint. No exceptions.
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The God of Small Things / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Several. The book opens with the funeral of Sophie Mol and explores her through flashback. Ammu and Velutha are also revealed to be these as well. Several minor characters such as Margaret Kochamma's second husband Joe, Baby Kochamma's love interest Father Mulligan, and Pappachi also count. One of the novel's major themes is about how characters, despite being dead, are still very much alive due to the presence of memories and the recurrence of history.
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The God of Small Things / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
The God of Small Things / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Chapters flash back and forth between the twins' childhood in The '60s and their adulthood early in The '90s, not to mention occasional long passages to even earlier times like in Ammu's own childhood.
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The God of Small Things / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: After he is Returned, Estha becomes this.
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The God of Small Things / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Rahel and Estha, played for drama (they're described as two-egg twins that are two halves of the same soul.)
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The God of Small Things / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Deconstructed with Baby Kochamma. True, she gets away with the multiple layers of manipulation towards her family, particularly in how she manipulates Estha and Rahel into testifying that Velutha kidnapped them and killed Sophie Mol just to save her sorry skin. But by the time we see her in 1993 Ayemenem, she's living a hollow life where her plants have all died, she's basically a prisoner in the old family home due to her television addiction and failing health, and she's hopelessly trying to preserve her love for Father Mulligan with her diary. In the end her situation looks much more like a Pyrrhic Victory than a real one. Played straight with the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man that forces Estha to give him a handjob.
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The God of Small Things / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
The God of Small Things / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Baby Kochamma is Catholic, went to Catholic school, has a rosary and develops an unrequited crush on Irish Jesuit Father Mulligan, but otherwise averted: the main Christian sect in Ayemenem is Syrian Christianity (directly founded in India by followers of St Thomas coming from Syria, according to lore, and thus not brought by colonisers), and then Anglicanism is mentioned as a religion which some of the Paravans (Untouchables) convert to, not that it does them much better.
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The God of Small Things / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: After Estha is separated from her, Rahel turns into this. Her husband thought she had a Sugar-and-Ice Personality. He was wrong. After the separation, Estha qualifies for this trope even more than Rahel (just switch "girl" to "boy"). There are hints that he's more emotionally repressed than truly emotionless, though.
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The God of Small Things / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: "Ammu" simply means "mother" and everyone refers to her as such.
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The God of Small Things / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The God of Small Things / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Rahel sees Sophie Mol do a cartwheel in her coffin, but no one else sees this.
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The God of Small Things / int_e5d37e0f	comment	Divergent Character Evolution: Played for Drama. Much of the book's present-day passages deal with how Rahel and Estha no longer share the bond they once did, and the book ends with them trying to reconnect in the only way they feel able—through sex.
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The God of Small Things / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Estha, who's always been a quiet child. And then...
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The God of Small Things / int_ec4b148	comment	Old, Dark House: The ancestral home of the Ipe family. When Rahel returns in 1993, the lights are dimming, the garden is wild and overgrown, the wooden fittings are rotting in, and the car has rusted into the ground, giving the house a very Gothic atmosphere overall.
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