Estha and Rahel, are stuck in a horor movie, their hopes and dreams are lost, now replaced with newer, more terrible ones. Roy describes the events after Sophie Mol's death with the description of Hansel and Gretel, how both Rahel and Estha are two lost kids just like them. Trying to follow the bed crumbs all the way home, but it is too dark to see the crumbs, to rainy that the crumbs might of washed away. Just like how Sophie washed away. Once it is lost to the river, nature takes care of the rest. Hansel and Gretel, Estha and Rahel, both lost kids who ran from home. Both scared for what will happen next. Both nervous about their futures. They don't know what will happen, but they know it wont be pretty.
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I also noticed this comparison, and agree that Rahel and Estha are like Hansel and Gretel. While they are completely abandoned by their parents, they do not leave a trail for themselves to follow back to their mother. This maybe is why certain events happened the way they did.
I agree, Estha and Rahel really only have each other, and with no one to guide them, they are just two lost children following eachother. The blind leading the blind. "Stumbling through their parts, nursing someone else's sorrow. Grieving someone else's grief."
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