"As lonely as a wolf. The God of Loss. The God Small Things." (Roy 274). So, I think it's become evident to everyone now that Velutha is the God of Small Things. He seemed like a not-so-important character at first, but eventually evolved into the most pivotal character in the entire novel. I guess it serves, then, to delve into what 'The God of Small Things' really means. It's my understanding that it has to do with all the chaos that came from the small things within the big things. It's like all the secrets from the History House and such, small things in this case, suddenly came out and just wrecked everything. In trying to preserve a little sanctity and order in their big world, characters like Baby Kochamma and Comrade Pillai have created more havoc, and have therefore made this book much more tragic with occurrences like Velutha's brutal murder. They can all be traced back to these "small things" though, and, henceforth, to Velutha, their deity.