Arundhti Roy

One of the most pivotal question is that is literature belle of power? If not, then answer is very simple that whatever writer wants to write  let them write because writer locates the points which are very difficult to locate by anyone else. As we all know, period between late 16^th and 17^th centuries in England is known as Puritan Age because of highly religious anarchy. Writer does critique on his/her political system, social and cultural problems and religious chaos and discovers many issues of society.

As Maya Angelou says that….

“There is no greater agony that bearing an untold story behind you.” And feeling very pathetic to say very few are able to touch other’s pain in the self and try to write on that as it is very difficult to any common person to see one sidedness happened with them! Arundhati Roy is one of the most remarkable among this. How tormented it is!

We are given the task of watching two small videos on two novels and to write our response. To take look over the task, click on these both links.

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Arundhati Roy explains why India is corporate and stress on upper caste and upper class state. She denounces what is happening in India today.  She has also debunked the Gandhi Myth. One can quickly find influence of Salman Rushdie in her writings.

Arundhati Roy
Awards	Booker Prize 1997 · The God of Small Things
	Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing 2011
	Sydney Peace Prize 2004
	National Film Award for Best Screenplay
Works	The God of small things
	The ministry of Utmost Happiness
	Works    The end of imagination
	Capitalism: A Ghost Story
	War Talk

The God of small things:

“The God of Small Things (1997)” narrated in third person omniscient, is one of the greater monument of Arundhati Roy. Arundhati’s this novel focuses on how diminutive things effect/affects the life. In India, even in this 21^st century, at several places, we can identify Marxism specially in Kerala and she has just tried to portrayed this in this novel.

Many people claim that authors do not “allow children to simply be children”. This claim can be seen in the novel The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Roy puts the twins, Estha and Rahel, through many life-changing experiences at a very young age, stripping them from the joys of childhood.

“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.”

Most people are familiar with the fact that children pay very little attention to detail and are always focused on the bigger picture because detail does not have as much meaning when one is young. The twins, however, felt that the, “little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story,” (Roy 17). Estha and Rahel learned that life is not always about the big picture at a startling young age, and learned that sometimes the little things in life are more important than the bigger picture. While this lesson is a positive lesson in most lives, being struck with the brutality of reality at a young age takes away the joys of childhood. Childhood is meant to be spent enjoying day to day life and not worrying about how things are going to affect other things because of the small details. The twins were always worrying about the small things in life, and therefore lost the joy of childhood that most adults long to have once again.

Molestation, rape, and sex are all words that should not even be in a child’s vocabulary. Estha becomes all too familiar with molestation after Orangedrink Lemondrink man molests Estha all for his own pleasure. Estha was innocent, Estha was young, Estha was singing, and then Orangedrink Lemondrink stole the small portion of his innocence that he still had. Estha was thirsty so, “He got a cold bottle and a straw. So he held a bottle in one hand and a penis in the other,” (Roy 48). Molestation is an act that that no should go through in their lives, especially a child that is so young. Again, Roy strips Estha of the childhood that he never really experienced.

Roy’s choice of story with the twins and their unfortunate situations prove the statement that authors cannot let children be children. The twins were stripped of their childhood and forced to grow up in extreme circumstances in many ways. Estha and Rahel could not just be children in any ways, and this reasoning gave Roy’s novel the perspective of a child through an adults point of view because of their stripped childhood