The god of small things7/5/2023 She wrote to her parents informing them of her decision. She thought that anything, anyone at all, would be better than returning to Ayemenem. Of course, Ammu “didn’t pretend to be in love with him. Baby Kochamma, Ammu, Velutha, Chacko, Margaret, Sophie Mol, Rahel, Estha – all of them suffer at least a dislocation, and, in some cases, internal or external violence.Īmmu “tampers with the laws” from the outset (of both the novel and her life, at twenty-seven years of age) by marrying Pappachi, a charming alcoholic, but a terrible husband and father. The God of Small Things is, in many ways, a meditation on the kinds of violence that get imposed when boundaries are crossed. This, of course, is necessarily a cursory glance at the “forbidden transgressions” of most of the novel’s dominant figures. That is to say, every character in some way crosses or transgresses, a boundary of some sort. This is a massive question – one which affects every character in The God of Small Things.
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