Tuesday, May 11, 2010
"Blood barely shows on a Black Man... It smells though, Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze." (Roy 293). In this chapter, we find that Velutha is practically the epitome of small things. When the policemen raid the History House, they nearly beat him to death and they heed no attanetion to his innocence or 'human-ness', for lack of a better word. Simply because he is an untouchable they see no reason to treat like a human being, just another useless Paravan. Even Estha and Rahel saw,as he was being beaten senselessly, that the laws of the world of bigger things are starting to encroach on the more peaceful, smaller things. Did his blood not show because he was "less human"? Did they smell his blood because there was one shred of hope for stability? What do you guys think?
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You can take that statment and think of it literally or figuratively. That his blood was literally as dark as his skin and wasn't visible in the night. Or the way I took it, thinking that his blood didn't show because he is the god of small things. The way I perceived it was that his blood symbolized his death, and b/c there was no blood, he didn't truly die. Though he was beaten, and his status though it was Paravan, Velutha was better in spirit then the rest. That his strong soul and spirit still lived even though his true shell was destroyed. He himself, still lived, and because of it, he didn't bleed out.
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