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Childhood’s Own World In The God Of Small Things - School Essays

Childhood’s Own World In The God Of Small Things

Arundhati Roy’s first novel The God of Small Things takes place in a very unstable environment. All the events combine and explode in one tragic day, a day of persecution and loss that is fated to last a lifetime: families that broke apart, people who goes, who dies, love lost and childhood destroyed.
Rahel and Estha, “two-egged twins” suffer the punishment of a world to whom they don’t belong, the world of adults. They fight to achieve the unconditional love of a parent and a safe environment.
The world built on childhood is a world built on LOVE. They can love as more than any adult because their soul is not attach to their mind; love is not attach to reasoning; feelings are not ...

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novel (109), as many others, Rahel shows the reader how important her mother’s love is to her and how her mother’s indifference to her words hurt her. At a hotel, the night before the twin’s cousin Sophie Mol arrives, Rahel gets very sad because she thinks that her mother love her “a little less.” She ask for a punishment so her mother love her the same as before. Then Baby Kochamma, Ammu’s aunt, said: “Some things come with their own punishments.” Those words can be changed to: In order to love and be loved people must suffer. But Rahel can’t understand those words; she can’t understand that in adult’s world: “There are no rules.” That “anything’s is possible in Human Nature.” “Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.” as Chacko, the twin’s uncle, says(112). But for Rahel things were different, she must love Sophie Mol just “because we’re first cousins. So I have to.” And love means love, not just pretending to; that’s how it was for the “two-egged twins.”

Otherwise, Rahel ...

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Added: 12/28/2007 08:45:22 AM
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