Punishment by Rabindranah Tagore

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy's debut innovative The God of Small Things quickly became a world-renowned scholarly sensation after it was published in New Delhi in 1997. Immediately identified as a passionate, sophisticated, and lushly descriptive work, it won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize and commenced its scribe to worldwide fame. The innovative tells the story of the Kochammas, a rich Christian family in a small town in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Based loosely from the perspective of Rahel Kochamma, who has returned to her hometown to see her twin male sibling, it pieces simultaneously the story of the spectacular events of Rahel's childhood that drastically altered the lives of every individual in the family.(Roy,1997,21)

The God of Small Things is an ambitious work that addresses universal themes extending from belief to biology. Roy stresses all through the innovative that large and small themes are interconnected, and that historical events and seemingly unrelated details have far-reaching consequences all through a community and country. The innovative is thus adept to commentary simultaneously on universal, abstract themes, and a broad kind of ideas pertaining to the personal and family history of the members of the Kochamma family as well as the broader concerns of the Kerala district of India. Some of the novel's most methodically evolved themes are forbidden love, Indian history, and politics. It is in love and politics that Roy's mindfully constructed, multifaceted narrative tends to dwell, and it is when love, politics, and history blend that Roy is adept to broadcast her most deep authorial insights.(Menon,1997,3)

The God of Small Things begins with Rahel coming back to her childhood dwelling in Ayemenem India to see her twin male sibling, Estha, who has been sent to Ayemenem by their father. Events flash back to Rahel and Estha's birth and the time span before their mother Ammu separated their father. Then the narrator describes the burial of Sophie Mol, Rahel and Estha's cousin, and the issue after the burial when Ammu went to the policeman station to say that a awful mistake had been made. Two weeks after this issue, Estha was returned to his father

The narrator succinctly describes the twins' mature individual lives before they come back to Ayemenem. In the present, Baby Kochamma gloats that Estha does not speak to Rahel just as he does not speak to any individual else, and then the narrator gives an overview of Baby Kochamma's life. Rahel looks out the window at the construction that used to comprise the family business, Paradise Pickles and Preserves, and flashes back to the circumstances surrounding Sophie Mol's death.The second describes the journey in which Rahel, Estha, Ammu, Chacko, and Baby Kochamma journey to the village of Cochin in alignment to choose up Margaret Kochamma and Sophie Mol from the airport. They are on the way to see The Sound of Music, but they are delayed at a train crossing by a Marxist demonstration in which Rahel sees her ally Velutha, who is a Paravan, ...