the god of small things theme of insecurity

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  • Insecurity
    • Rahel
      • divorce lack of attention to man
        • page 18, 19
      • attachment insecurity isolation loneliness
        • page 146
        • page 17
      • emotional baggage from childhood
        • page 111
        • page 112
        • page 159
        • page 163
        • page 315 - moth
    • Baby Kochamma
      • personal insecurity jealous so acts out when she finds out ammu is happy and in love
        • page 45
        • page 329
        • page 149
        • page 259
        • pages 314, 315, 316, 317, 318
      • relationship insecurity loved the priest
        • page 22, 23
        • page 24, 25,
      • isolation and loneliness when old due to mistakes when young
        • page 26, 27 , 29
    • Ammu
      • abuse and violence from father
        • page 181
      • attachment insecurity gets close with wrong people due to childhood neglect
        • page 176
        • page 202
        • pages 338, 339 340
      • divorce
        • page 3
        • page 9
      • failure due to life choices she felt like a failure and was treated like one too
        • page 160
        • page 163
      • professional insecurity losing her job
        • page 159
        • page 161
    • Estha
      • relationship insecurity molestation would make relationships heard lead to isolation
        • page 253
        • page 300
      • fear and anxiety turned into insecurity due to molestation
        • page 119
        • page 109
        • page 108
        • page 140
        • page 150
        • page 194
          • page 197
          • page 212
        • pages 10, 11 and 12
      • attachment insecurity due to molestation and being sent away from mother and rahel when young
        • page 145
        • page 13
        • page 31
      • personal insecurity guilt due to falsely accusing veltuha
        • page 320
        • page 326
        • page 32
  • The fragmented structure of The God of Small Things is one of its most striking and challenging features. In the novel, narrative time does not correspond with chronological time. In other words, the way in which the story unfolds does not follow a conventional route from beginning to middle to end.
  • Roy employs alternating narrative threads, flashbacks, and flash forwards to tell her story out of sequence in a non-linear fashion.
  • This shapes a singular narrative voice that is a hybrid combination of the two children’s psychologies.
  • Roy also offers an inter- generational narrative voice of different viewpoints that is transhistorical
  • the caste system was abolished in 1950 - book takes place in 1969
  • form - alternative narratives, flashbacks, flash forwards/ foreshadow
  • semi-auto- biographical fiction because its setting is so obviously reminiscent of Arundhati Roy's childhood home
  • her depiction of the Syrian Christian community to which the Ipe family belongs is also highly critical of their assumed social superiority
  • roy said about kerala 'its the only place in the world where religions coincide... I couldn't think of a better location for a book about human beings'
  • the novel’s intertextuality. Roy’s novel names and engages classic literature throughout as well as a variety of high and popular cultural intertexts.

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