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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

A little bit more on Baby K. -
First of all, the police station section. On one hand, I was astonished and absolutely sickened by what was happening, but at the same time, I was not completely surprised about Baby Kochamma's behavior. But all the same, it was so twisted of her to manipulate Estha and Rahel into telling the lie about Velutha. But then again, she was only doing what she had to do to protect her family, right? What would any of us do in her position? And, like she said, and like was true, Velutha didn't even make it through the night. But I still think she was wrong for hurting the twins by saying that they were murderers.

1 comment:

lilym said...

I understand what you're saying. Especially since family is very important in that culture, and so is the reputation of the family. I definitely do not agree with Baby K's decision to do that to the children, but i can understand how she could think that was the right thing in some twisted way.