Almost entire book was just full of tragic, bad, sad events. For example, people's death such as Velutha and Sophie Mol, betrayal between people who had tight relationship between them, and tragic(?) family background of Rahel and Estha's family. However, although Velutha died, I like how the story ended. Roy described the love between Velutha and Ammu and I felt like the story had a happy ending.