The God of Small Things
“The God of Small Things”
Masterpiece Portfolio
By: Taylor Strong
Bibliography on Arundhati Roy: Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her first novel The God of Small Things, which won numerous awards such as the Booker Prize. It is important to understand what was going on in Roy’s life as she wrote this book to make the connections. Once one has understood what her life was like it is clear to see the connection between the fictional characters and plot intertwining with the non-fictional accounts of Roy’s real life. Roy was born on November 24, 1961 in Shillong, India where her father was employed as a tea-planter. However, she spent most of her childhood in a village a few kilometers away from town in the center of Kerala. It is in Kerala that the theme and setting of the story takes place. She moved back to Kerala when her mother divorced her father. When her mother divorced her husband she broke the tradition and therefor was never really accepted by the conservative Kerala society. Her house was also dominated by the traditional patriarchal traditions, which made their life more difficult. This is portrayed perfectly in the story, where Ammu represents her mother and shows the many troubles they had to overcome. Her mother was also an activist who got in and won legal battles such as the Christian Succession Act, which in turn intrigued Arundhati to do the same. When Roy was eighteen she moved to New Delhi for higher education and joined the Delhi School of Architecture (like Rahel). She worked many jobs just to get by such as selling cakes, filmmaking, screenplay writing, and writing articles for newspapers. It were these life experiences that would later accumulate to help create her best work, The God of Small Things.
Works Cited
Prasad, Amar. The God of Small Things A Critical Appraisal. New Delhi: Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 2004. Print
Country Profile of India: India is the worlds largest democracy and the second most
Masterpiece Portfolio
By: Taylor Strong
Bibliography on Arundhati Roy: Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her first novel The God of Small Things, which won numerous awards such as the Booker Prize. It is important to understand what was going on in Roy’s life as she wrote this book to make the connections. Once one has understood what her life was like it is clear to see the connection between the fictional characters and plot intertwining with the non-fictional accounts of Roy’s real life. Roy was born on November 24, 1961 in Shillong, India where her father was employed as a tea-planter. However, she spent most of her childhood in a village a few kilometers away from town in the center of Kerala. It is in Kerala that the theme and setting of the story takes place. She moved back to Kerala when her mother divorced her father. When her mother divorced her husband she broke the tradition and therefor was never really accepted by the conservative Kerala society. Her house was also dominated by the traditional patriarchal traditions, which made their life more difficult. This is portrayed perfectly in the story, where Ammu represents her mother and shows the many troubles they had to overcome. Her mother was also an activist who got in and won legal battles such as the Christian Succession Act, which in turn intrigued Arundhati to do the same. When Roy was eighteen she moved to New Delhi for higher education and joined the Delhi School of Architecture (like Rahel). She worked many jobs just to get by such as selling cakes, filmmaking, screenplay writing, and writing articles for newspapers. It were these life experiences that would later accumulate to help create her best work, The God of Small Things.
Works Cited
Prasad, Amar. The God of Small Things A Critical Appraisal. New Delhi: Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 2004. Print
Country Profile of India: India is the worlds largest democracy and the second most
Bibliography: Prasad, Amar. The God of Small Things A Critical Appraisal. New Delhi: Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 2004. Print This book is a critical analysis by Dr Dodiya, Jaydipsinh. Indian Women Novelists in English. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2006. Print. Tickle, Alex. The God of Small Things. London: Routledge, 2007. Print