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The God of Small Things
On a crowded street in India, a poor Untouchable is scowled at by the upperclassmen with disgusted faces. To everyone around he is unclean. This is a way of life for millions of Indians. Social classes and the caste system are very important to everyday life in India. These sentences are short and choppy They don’t flow easily. Could you combine a few to make it flow easily. This idea is demonstrated strongly in the novel, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. In the novel, Roy displays intimate and realistic sides of the caste system through the experiences of Velutha, Chacko, and Sophie Mol. Good thesis
Through Velutha’s experiences, one is able to see the difficult times an Untouchable can go through at any given time. In India, an Untouchable has practically no rights. This idea is shown in the novel once Velutha and Ammu’s relationship is discovered. After Baby Kochamma and Mammachi fight with Velutha, where awkward – I think you mean ‘and” he is practically unresponsive, Baby Kochamma goes to Thomas Mathew’s office. There, she takes the small, polite responses he gave her and “enhanced and embroidered them into threats of murder and abduction” (269). The simple fact that Baby Kochamma was able to do this without Velutha being able to speak up for himself shows that he has no rights. Once an upper-class woman made claims against him to an authority figure, any chance he had was over because no one would believe him over her. Another example of the caste system being shown through Velutha was present tense when Chacko and Comrade Pillai were discussing the feelings of the workers at Paradise Pickles and Preserves toward Velutha. On this subject, Pillai states, “but other workers are not happy with him. Already they are coming to me with complaints. You see, comrade, from local standpoint, these caste issues are very deep-rooted” (263). From Pillai’s statement, the reader sees that workers are against Velutha working with them because he is an Untouchable. The mindset of everyone in the workplace is that someone so low in the caste system shouldn’t no contractions be able to do work just like them and receive the same pay at all. Being looked down upon and being seen as practically nothing made life as Untouchable hard to handle.
To be an upper-class man in India made one’s life easier than most others. Through Chacko, the book portrays what the life of an upper-class man is like. When Pillai and Chacko are discussing present tense - discuss Velutha, Chacko’s seniority is shown through comments by Pillai. Pillai feels that Chacko, as a man of upper class, would be in his own best interest to fire Velutha and get him as far away as possible. The whole situation where Chacko has the power to do this to Velutha because he is an untouchable shows just how much the caste system can influence everyone’s life. You do a great job at reinforcing your thesis statement. Another example of Chacko’s experiences with the caste system is about wrong preposition his marriage to Margaret Kochamma. Intro quote – maybe say Roy writes, “…Margaret Kochamma and Chacko were married. Without her family’s consent” (234). By her parents not approving this is what we call passive. Why not just say – her parents refusal to consent demonstrates… of Chacko marrying their daughter, the distinction between whites and Indians is stressed. Margaret Kochamma’s parent not wanting her to marry someone different and of color, shows that even if a man is well respected in social status and India, it doesn’t matter to others. While being an upper-class man seemed to be much more glamorous, sometimes it was as difficult as being of a lower status. This is not about India, though.
A final way the caste system is portrayed in the novel is through Sophie Mol. As an English, white girl, she is placed above all the inhabitants of India. This is shown right when she enters the airport in India. INTRO QUOTE!!!“When Sophie Mol walked into the Arrivals Lounge, Rahel, overcome by excitement and resentment, pinched Estha hard” (135). Everyone in the terminal waiting with Chacko was overly excited to see her, and treats her with much more respect than any other child gets, just because she’s English. Another way Sophie Mol’s status is shown is by how the other children are treated when she’s around. In the airport when Rahel runs away from all the commotion due to the new arrivals, Ammu brushes it off by simply saying “just ignore her. She’s just trying to attract attention” (189). Because Sophie Mol was in her presence, Ammu completely ignored her own daughter instead of finding out what was wrong. The twins got no attention from any adults whatsoever because there was a white child around them. This action seemed to be reoccurring Melanie – never use seems, instead, just say it out there. It reoccurs when they return home., happening when they arrived home as well. Being a white person in India was close to being royalty, because everyone saw that person as more important. Relate to reality idea in thesis.
Through Velutha’s, Chacko’s and Sophie Mol’s experiences, the reader receives an insight into the ideas of the Indian caste system. Whoa – where is the rest of the conclusion?