https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks Examples of trauma in The God of Small Things en-us 2022-02-15 11:44:08 UTC 2025-10-12 12:51:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048408067 Relates to:
Space & Place - Estha is molested in the lobby of a cinema, a place meant to be fun and safe is twisted to become scary and dangerous. This shows Estha's loss of innocence.]]> 2022-02-15 12:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048408067 https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048408608 The ancient Hindu caste system plays an important factor an example would be between the touchable and the untouchables and the love affair between Ammu and Velutha. This reinforces the idea of an impossible relationship for their future because they are both of different positions within the caste system. ]]> 2022-02-15 12:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048408608 https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048412210 The gender double standard of the Indian society plays a large factor within the plot, Papachi and Chako's sins are over looked, however, Ammu is disowned and scorned for being divorced. ]]> 2022-02-15 12:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048412210 https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048412415 "The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear—civilization’s fear of nature, men’s fear of women, power’s fear of powerlessness. 
Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify" 
This is in relation to Velutha's, rather violent, death. An act committed by the police, witnessed by the twins - a memory that seems to stay with them. It was done (I believe) due to Velutha's class, especially with him being somewhat higher in position as a worker at the factory, that Chacko refuses to fire despite being asked to? ]]> 2022-02-15 12:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048412415 https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048414242 ‘Velutha introduced himself and his paralysed brother, Kuttappen (although he was fast asleep). He greeted them with upmost courtesy. He addressed them all as Kochamma and gave them fresh coconut water to drink. He chatted to them about the weather. The river. The fact that in his opinion coconut trees were getting shorter by the year. As were the ladies in Ayemenem. He introduced them to his surely hen. He showed them his carpentry tools, and whittled each of them a little wooden spoon.
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with an adult hindsight, recognises the sweetness of that gesture.’ (p.190)

Velutha is deemed untouchable and a lower societal status. He refers to his societal superiors with respect and provides them with the best he can offer (for example the fresh coconut water) and is as hospitable as he can be. Providing the twins with a handmade wooden spoon was a gesture of being genuine, and only years later when the twins are adults do they appreciate the kindness and work behind the gesture. Velutha’s lack of material possessions demonstrated in the extract can link to his class, but when they were younger, the twins were unaware of such differentiation.]]> 2022-02-15 12:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048414242 https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048421037 The repercussions of colonialism are still felt throughout the text, explored most thoroughly through the twins' Uncle Chacko. He states to the twins that he only knows about India's history under British colonialism. This shows that trauma causes a long, strenuous ripple effect on other people's lives, years later. Events leading to further events is one of the key themes of the novel.]]> 2022-02-15 12:16:59 UTC https://padlet.com/asmachar/Bookmarks/wish/2048421037