“Once you are born a woman can you go and confront a group of four or five men?” should you ever do it?.
This narration accommodates more than thirty-five characters most of whom…female, but in conventional sense there is no individual who may be tagged as hero or heroine. Bama gives another picture of the community. Although both men and women came after hard day’s work in the field. The men went straight to the bazaar or chavadi to while away their time, coming home only for their meal. But as for the women, they return home vessels, clean the house, collect water, gather firewood, go to the shops to buy rice and other provision boil some rice, make a kazhambu or a kanji feed husband and children before they eat what is left over and go to bed. Even they lay down their bodies wracked with pain; they were not allowed to sleep. Whether …show more content…
Bama says that man can humiliate woman many times, he can disrespect a woman, it is very normal. But in this partial double minded society woman has no right to spoken out anything. This is acceptable to all. The postcolonial thrust of her book is in its huge criticism of Indian church. Bama raises voices out the grievances of paraiya women. Characters like vellaiyamma patti and a small girl and the narrator herself, who learns the story from her grandmother which becomes the development of the