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History Personified History Mob Boss
Katie Dobersztyn
English IV Accel
Ms. Gutierrez
History Personified

History the Mob Boss

Arundhati Roy personifies history as a mob boss, with Baby Kochamma, Chacko, Inspector Thomas Matthew, Comrade Pillai, even Vellya Paapen acting has the mob boss’s thugs, who maintained order and came to collect what you owe when you don’t follow the rules. When you owe the mob money, the boss’s thugs will come for you. Roy uses the personification of owing the mob boss to show what happens when you don’t maintain the natural order of things. When you get off balance, history’s thugs work to return to and maintain balance. In India, marriages are arranged, which is the natural order. Pappachi and Mammachi had an arranged marriage, had two kids,

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