Resumo de God Of Small Things

here.

It is a story of two children ? fraternal twins - a
boy

and a girl and their quest for love. Set in a small
village

of a coastal Indian state, Kerala, the story also
captures

the caste politics and the initial phase of communist

movement, lead by the affluent upper caste people. The

children live with their mother at her maternal home,
an

anglicized Syrian Christian family, but were regarded
as

social outcasts by them.

Ammu their spirited mother had defied her family and

married a Bengali Hindu, but was unable to continue
with

the relationship. Rahel and Estha the products of the

marriage, live in their own world and derive their

happiness from nature. Within the family, the religious

hybrids were treated with special scorn by their
spinster

grandaunt, Baby Kochamma.

Deprived of paternal love, the children look up to
their

maternal uncle Chacko, a Rhodes scholar and worship him

like a father. However Chacko himself a divorcee has

reserved all his love for his absentee half-British

daughter and fails to reciprocate their feelings.

Twins find love from Velutha, an untouchable young

carpenter, whose family had worked under them for

generations and hence treated as lowly serfs. Velutha

incidentally has amorous relationship with Ammu. The

spinster aunt Kochamma, who could not achieve her dream

hero, a Catholic holy man, feels jealous of Ammu and
was

determined to deny her the happiness of love. .

In this context enters Sophie Mol on a short vacation
from

London. Sophie Mol, the rightful owner of Chacko?s

affection and the darling of the entire family feels

attracted to the twins. But the family spares no
efforts to

make the twins insignificant by the showering an overt

appreciation to the newcomer. At this crucial juncture
when

the twins were going through an emotional crisis, Ammu
was

caught with Velutha the lowly untochable, in a romantic

escapade.

Revengeful aunt gets Velutha arrested on rape charge
and

embarrassed Ammu goes on isolation. When the lonely
twins

went to seek emotional shelter from mother, she refuses
to

open the door and brushes them away with harsh words.
At

the dead night the twins take up an expedition to their

favorite refuge, a deserted bungalow to the other side
of

the river in an old boat repaired for them by Velutha.

Sophie tags along and the inexperienced girl drowns in
the

river in the darkness.

Opportunists, to achieve own objectives uses the
tragedy.

Baby Kochamma accuses Velutha for everything and the
low

caste party worker, was betrayed by his communist
leader

too. The children who knew that Velutha was innocent
were

blackmailed to silence. Believing that their confession

will bring danger to Ammu, Estha agreed to betray the
only

man who provided them unconditional love.

In an emotion charged climax, the twins were led to the

dying Velutha, tortured brutally by police to confirm
the

accusation of rape. Ironically, in spite of his extreme

physical pain Velutha greets the children with a
smile.

The touching gesture leaves an indelible scar, and
later

Estha grows into an introvert. The revengeful aunt
manages

to separate the twins and Estha was sent Calcutta.

Finally, defiant Ammu slowly succumbs to her weariness.

The story opens up decades later with a divorced and

dejected Rahel coming back to kerala to find her
brother,

with whom she had shared a dreaded secret, grown into
an

unapproachable loner. To pierce his wall of
loneliness,

Rahel made forbidden love to him , the way Ammu had
done

once to Velutha. The novel deals with the clashes of
human

emotions with that of forbidden social love laws.

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