In the God of small things we can find many themes. One of these, which was interesting to me, was discrimination in terms of social class. This story happens in India which has social hierarchy. It's called caste system and the people lowest class in that system are considered. In this book, Velutha, Vella Paapen, and Kuttappen belong to the untouchables. Arundhati Roy showed this cruel social discrimination by giving story of Velutha. "They woke Velutha with their boots. Esthappen and Rahel woke to the shout of sleep surprised by shattered kneecaps...They heard the thud of wood on flesh. Boot on bone...The gurgle of blood on a man's breath when his lung is torn by the jagged end of a broken rib. What Esthappen and Rahel witnessed that morning, though they didn't know it then, was a clinical demonstration in controlled conditions of human nature's pursuit of ascendancy. Structure. Order. Complete monopoly....at least biologically he was a fellow creature...No means of gauging how much or how permanently they had damaged him."(pg.292-293) This quote shows how cruel the caste system is.