Essay Archive - Childhood’s Own World in The God of Small Things
Childhood’s Own World in The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy’s first novel The God of Small Things takes place in a very unstable environment. All the events combine and explode in one tragic day, a day of persecution and loss that is fated to last a lifetime: families that broke apart, people who goes, who dies, love lost and childhood destroyed.
Rahel and Estha, “two-egged twins” suffer the punishment of a world to whom they don’t belong, the world of adults. They fight to achieve the unconditional love of a parent and a safe enviro....
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