dah of the History House. (While other children of their age learned other things, Estha and Rahel learned how history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who breaks its laws... it would lurk forever in ordinary things...They would try to tell themselves... it was an insignificant event...they would find no comfort in the thought – 53-54). Both felt responsible for the death of Velutha, "they both knew that they had been given a choice" (302), but chose to save their mother and themselves, thus betraying a friend to pay for a crime he did not commit.
             The film proves to its viewer that love is truly the most universal of all emotions. It is impossible for a person to live without the warmth of love. It is much like the sun, which gives life to all living creatures through the warmth that it provides. As the sun that never stops to give off rays as a sign of joy and hope, so did love function in the lives of the Kochamma household – this became the reason for their existence. Besides the relationship between Ammu and Velutha, Ammu was also able to show a mother's love to her twin children (155), which they reciprocated with theirs by "saving Ammu" (301). At the same time, the twins were also able to share a bond of friendship with Velutha – "with the man they weren't supposed to love" (53). More importantly, Estha and Rahel had the love more than what must be between a brother and a sister, to the exten
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