Thursday, December 3, 2015

God of small things

So the story unfolds in beautiful delicious bits
Vivid real scription of air swirling down from the ceiling fan in a never ending potato peel.

Let me piece together the story.
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Day1: before Sophie arrives
Stopped by the march. Baby humiliated.
Estha molested and terrified.

Day2:
Sophie arrives
Rahel plays with velutha
Velutha and ammu notice each other
Estha rows jam and thinks two thoughts.
They find the boat and get velutha to fix it up
Ammu dreams of the one handed man
She gets pissed off at all the attention over Margaret and Sophie
She meets him and they make love on the boat and start a romance that lasts for two weeks
That same day chacko sees comrade pillai and finds out that velutha is in the party. Males it clear he's okay with his untouchable caste.
Day 3 to day 14
In the afternoons the kids row and play in the history house.
Day 15
Velutha 's father tells mammachi. 
Mammachi and baby kochamma lock up ammu
Ammu screams unforgivable words at the kids
They row out in the rain to the history house.
Boat overturns
Sophie drowns
Kids go to history house. 
Velutha goes to the house gets scolded
Velutha goes to comrade pillai
Then he goes to the history house.
Sophie washes up.
Baby kochamma makes a police report.
Police go to the history house destroy velutha
That night baby kochamma manipulates kids to lie about velutha.
Next morning funeral. .
Ammu goes to the police station
Velutha dies
Family breaks apart.
Kids have seen brutality.
Mother has known love and betrayal.
Lives are destroyed. Totally. Wreaking havoc on the kids.
Mother turned and left into the black hole left by velutha 's death.  Leaving them alone unmoored in a dangerous world.
Life loved and over by 27 for ammu. By 7 for the kids.


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