Class Forum: THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Throughout the God of Small Things, I've been very interested in following all of the reoccurring themes/objects/symbols in the book. At first, I thought there were just a few very important ones, but now I've found many! Some of these are:
-the moth
-Orangedrinks/Lemondrinks/the OrangedrinkLemondrink Man
-Love-in-Tokyo
Those are some of the more obvious ones, but there are probably many more. What do you think is the point in using these various ideas/pictures in the book? I think they may be a sort of vehicle, helping to move the plot along. Also, what are some more of these?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I also found another one of these symbols/reoccurring ideas. It is the "(insert word here) shaped Hole in the Universe. On page 237, it is a "schoolteacher" shaped Hole. On page 223, an "elephant" shaped Hole. There's many more.