God Of Small Things Analysis

The Post-colonial experiences have made the relationships of families much more difficult due to the fragmentation throughout the country. Children and adults lost their home and the struggles and troublesome difficulties they had in their homeland. The development of the colonizer’s land, made them to become confused with where their loyalties should lie. In Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’, the Kochamma family is a family of tragic people. It is their own cultural traditions that lead them to the tragedy. However, the theme within the novel is of the people oppressed by the colonisation of India especially by England, and how a society is consumed with prejudices based on class or caste and color that begin to turn on itself,
The novel reveals a decisive colonial condition; through its language, characters, events and instances it goes through. The novel is based on the family that lives in the town of Ayemenem in Kerala, India. The novel shifts back from 1969, where Rahel and Estha, both twins were 7 years old and they met each other when they became adult. The novel begans with a sister who returns to her childhood home to see her twin brother, who has been sent to their native town by their father. The flash back to both their birth and the period before their mother divorced their father comes in front of them. The narrator described the funeral of their cousin, and the point after the funeral when their mother went to the police station to say that a mistake had been made. After this, Estha was returned to his father. The narrator briefly describes the lives of both the twins before they return to their native place. In the present, Baby Kochamma life has been shown how he thought of past which made certain differences among each other. By these falshbacks the story highlights about what happened in the family when both the twins were young their memories revealed. They conquered, subjugated and dominated others for all internal differences. The discussion has been formed against issues like postcolonial identity, hybridity, their cultural differences and conflicts.
She used to listen to the twins speaking and punished them if they spoke in any other language or their own native language and if they made any mistakes while speaking in English. Their cousin was presented to them as superior and higher in every aspect of knowledge and ideality. She is constantly compared to the twins which made both of them depressed. Their English cousin is loved from the beginning even before she arrives and when she died the loss of her became more important than her memory. Hybridity occurs as a result of movements of cultural suppression, as when the colonial power invades to over rule political and economic control, or when settler disposed people and forced them to assimilate to new social patterns. The impression that Sophie left for herself is loved from the beginning. The entire family’s behavior is peculiar especially in Baby Kochamma’s. In the novel there are different levels of meaning other than the peripheral one. It means that people are forced into a unique pattern of thinking and practice which is enabled by the public school education established by the colonial