Well, I love the pics, now let's talk literature. Please tell me what you are feeling about this novel. What is there to discuss? What do you notice? What do you love? What do you hate? I want to hear it and so does everyone else.
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What is the god of small things?
"To me the god of small things is the inversion of God. God's a big thing and God's in control. The god of small things...whether it's the way the children see things or whether it's the insect life in the book, or the fish or the stars - there is a not accepting of what we think of as adult boundaries. This small activity that goes on is the under life of the book. All sorts of boundaries are transgressed upon. At the end of the first chapter I say little events and ordinary things are just smashed and reconstituted, imbued with new meaning to become the bleached bones of the story. It's a story that examines things very closely but also from a very, very distant point, almost from geological time and you look at it and see a pattern there. A pattern...of how in these small events and in these small lives the world intrudes. And because of this, because of people being unprotected.. the world and the social machine intrudes into the smallest, deepest core of their being and changes their life." - Arundhati Roy
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- I love to read and I love to write, and always have so I first decided to become a jounalist. I graduated from URI with a degree in journalism in 1988. I worked in the field for about two years and then returned to school to become certified in teaching English and English as a Second Language. I have a MEd from RIC, and have been working in the Cranston Public School system for the past 21 years. I have taught WRT104 to high school students for about 20 of those years and started at URI's Kingston campus eight years ago.
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What is the god of small things?
"To me the god of small things is the inversion of God. God's a big thing and God's in control. The god of small things...whether it's the way the children see things or whether it's the insect life in the book, or the fish or the stars - there is a not accepting of what we think of as adult boundaries. This small activity that goes on is the under life of the book. All sorts of boundaries are transgressed upon. At the end of the first chapter I say little events and ordinary things are just smashed and reconstituted, imbued with new meaning to become the bleached bones of the story. It's a story that examines things very closely but also from a very, very distant point, almost from geological time and you look at it and see a pattern there. A pattern...of how in these small events and in these small lives the world intrudes. And because of this, because of people being unprotected.. the world and the social machine intrudes into the smallest, deepest core of their being and changes their life." - Arundhati Roy
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Heyyyy =) We may have touched upon this in class...but I have a question/discussion topic:
Is there any significance to the "dream Velutha" to having one arm? Does it mean anything?
Answers welcome =D
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