ARUNDHATI ROY,

The God of Small Things, 1997

ANLISYS OF THE EXTRAT AT PAGES 447,448 OF LITTERATURE IN TIME,B.DE LUCA,D.J.ELLIS,P.PACE,S.RANZOLI,LOESHER EDITORE

MORELLI LUCA

STORYLINE

Taking cue from the Pied Piper Rahel, Estha and Sophie Mol go away to home to heightrn yhe adults remorse;

They go in a dark river with them boat;

They have an incident and they fall into the current of the dark wather;

Rahel and Estha are able to go to the bank, but Sophie Mol can't. “She was gone. Carried away on the muffled highway”(citation)

Characters

AMMU: mother of Estha and Rahel. She is divorced and she has a secret affair with Velutha who is an Untouchable.

ESTHA and RAHEL: two seven-years-old twins. Estha is a boy and Rahel is a girl.

SOPHIE MOL: daughter of Chacko and his English ex-wife

CHACKO: uncle of Eatha and Rahel

Narrative technique

Third person narration

The narrator isn't omniscente

Use of past tence of verbs

Setting

The action is set in the village of Ayemenem in Kerala, in South India in 1969

ARUNDHATI ROY

Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya,India.

Her mother was a rights activist.

Her brother had schizophrenia and committed suicide, possibly while under the influence of drugs of abuse.

At the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi she met her first husband: the architect Gerard DaCunha.

Roy met her second husband, filmmaker Pradip Krishen, in 1984.

Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996.

In 2007, Roy announced that she would begin work on a second novel.