The God of Small Things:Roy´s writing and its effects
Describe the main features of Roy´s writing and show how they are effective."And the Air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say.But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside" (p.136)"The God of Small Things" Since the title of the novel is read, the invisible thread connecting the first page with the last one is presented. The whole book deals with the significance of things that appear insignificant. Little things add up. Everything counts. Roy´s extreme delicacy when writing, the way she shapes the language so as to mould meaning and rhythm of each word, enhances the importance given to details all along the story. Form and content are so intrinsically jointed that one never knows when is the theme moulding the language and when is the latter the font of the perceptions the thread arises in the mind of the reader.The novel is rich with Indian family relationships, social custom and mores, politics, and the most universal of human emotions and behaviour. At one and the same time, it is a suspenseful and tragic mystery, a love story, and an exposition of the paradoxes that exist in an ancient land whose history was forever altered by its B
Chapter 3 for instance, begins interrupting another time the story of the trip that was being told , to see the Sound of Music; to tell the reader more about an encounter between Estha and Rahel which took place in later years, after both had returned to Ayemenem. The intense use of flashbacks reinforces such "go and return" mood the author tries to develop during the novel . Magical sounds, magical phrases, the minds of the children, the mind of the reader. Roy´s verbal exuberance is all her own, and it makes "The God of Small Things" a real pleasure. In chapter 6 for example, Estha´s memory is triggered by all kinds of random events and words of his encounter with the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man. Incongruously jaunty tone to relate tales of horror and tragedy. Roy takes up classic material, but she delights in verbal innovation and stylistic tricks. The perspective of childhood--of imagination and inventiveness, of incomplete understanding, fear, dependence, assertion of independence, vulnerability, comradeship, competitive jealousy, and wonderment--is beautifully rendered. of how in these small events and in these small lives the world intrudes. And because of this, because of people being unprotected. Very interesting images and nice turns of phrase appear every now and then conveying such poetry to he story, that sometimes the reader feels embedded in a world of magic. In order to resemble the trauma that man aroused in Estha, Roy mentions such random events and words. " At Sophie's funeral, a bat alights on a mourner: "the singing stopped for a 'Whatisit?' 'Whathappened?' and for a Furrywhirring and a Sariflapping.
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