I personally like foreshadowing and there are some of that in the God of small things. When Pappachi knew the moth he discovered was named after other person, he gets really angry and kind of foreshadows what is going to happen. "Its pernicious ghost-gray, furry...It tormented him and his children and his children's children."(pg.48) And this actually happens as the stories goes on by representing Rahel's fear by depicting moth.

Moth had appeared several times in this book. Whenever Rahel got fear from something, description about moth represented the fear she was getting. "A cold moth unusually dense dorsal tufts landed lightly on Rahel's heart. Where it's icy leg touched her, she got goosebumps. Six goosebumps on her careless heart. A little less her Ammu loved her."(pg.107) This is the quote from the incident when Ammu was mad at Rahel because of Rahel said something inappropriate.

I can see some forbidden loves in this book. The love between Velutha and Ammu was quite shocking because Velutha is untouchable. Also, the love between Rahel and Estha was shocking too. I felt Ammu will be in love with someone, but I never imagined and thought about Rahel and Estha having sex. I think Roy tried to emphasize the power of love by forbidden love or was just a big fan of love.

Almost entire book was just full of tragic, bad, sad events. For example, people's death such as Velutha and Sophie Mol, betrayal between people who had tight relationship between them, and tragic(?) family background of Rahel and Estha's family. However, although Velutha died, I like how the story ended. Roy described the love between Velutha and Ammu and I felt like the story had a happy ending.

Arundhati Roy didn't narrated(wrote) the story in chronological order. This made me that I actually become the narrator and think back some important stories from the past. Also, Arundhati Roy foreshadows some of the events that will happen later. All of these skills she used increased the tension in this book and made the book more interesting.

It made me feel terrible that Vellya Paapen betrayed his son because he didn't wanted to get into trouble. I wouldn't do that if my son was in the same situation. But at the same time, I could understand Vellya and thought about the caste system once again. He didn't betrayed Velutha because he hated him. Vellya knew what is going to happen to them since he and Velutha are UNTOUCHABLES. So it was like a moral vs cruel reality.