e of accuracy exactly when (the year, if not the month or day) he stopped talking" altogether (Roy, 12). In reality, there wasn't an exact moment when Estha went mute. In accordance with the narrator, Estha's silence was "a gradual winding down and closing shop" (Roy, 12). However, "once the quietness arrived, it stayed and spread in Estha" (Roy, 13). Over time, the causes and reasons for his muteness were "hidden away, entombed somewhere deep in the soothing folds of the fact of it" (Roy, 13), but as readers, we are able to trace the muteness, and the isolate key moments of Estha's downward emotional spiral, as well as identify the causes contributing to Estha's silence, even if they are "hidden away. The first key moment occurs at the Abhilash Talkies when Estha is sexually assaulted by the "Orangedrink Lemondrink Man," who worked the concession stand at the movie t
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