ARUNDHATI ROY,
The God of Small Things, 1997
ANLISYS OF THE EXTRAT AT PAGES 447,448 OF LITTERATURE IN TIME,B.DE
LUCA,D.J.ELLIS,P.PACE,S.RANZOLI,LOESHER EDITORE
MORELLI LUCA
STORYLINE
Taking cue from the Pied Piper Rahel, Estha and
Sophie Mol go away to home to heightrn yhe adults
remorse;
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They go in a dark river with them boat;
They have an incident and they fall into the current of
the dark wather;
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Rahel and Estha are able to go to the bank, but
Sophie Mol can't.
“She was gone. Carried away on the muffled
highway”(citation)
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Characters
AMMU: mother of Estha and Rahel. She is divorced
and she has a secret affair with Velutha who is an
Untouchable.
ESTHA and RAHEL: two seven-years-old twins. Estha
is a boy and Rahel is a girl.
SOPHIE MOL: daughter of Chacko and his English exwife
CHACKO: uncle of Eatha and Rahel
Narrative technique
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Third person narration
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The narrator isn't omniscente
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Use of past tence of verbs
Setting
The action is set in the village of Ayemenem in Kerala,
in South India in 1969
ARUNDHATI ROY
Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya,India.
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Her mother was a rights activist.
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Her brother had schizophrenia and committed suicide, possibly while under the
influence of drugs of abuse.
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At the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi she met her first
husband: the architect Gerard DaCunha.
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Roy met her second husband, filmmaker Pradip Krishen, in 1984.
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Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992,
completing it in 1996.
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In 2007, Roy announced that she would begin work on a second novel.
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