Kochamma Family In Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things
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,
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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. This novel even though complex and fragmented, conveys a deeper meaning that runs through regarding human perspectives, values and attitudes of a post colonial nation. The relation between India and English has been a long and filled with troubles. In India, the cultural impact of imperialism dominated the upper and lower classes. When Rahel and Estha’s cousin comes down from London their grandmother wanted her grandchildren’s to speak in English fluently. She used to listen to the twins
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. This novel even though complex and fragmented, conveys a deeper meaning that runs through regarding human perspectives, values and attitudes of a post colonial nation. The relation between India and English has been a long and filled with troubles. In India, the cultural impact of imperialism dominated the upper and lower classes. When Rahel and Estha’s cousin comes down from London their grandmother wanted her grandchildren’s to speak in English fluently. She used to listen to the twins