{"id":8206,"date":"2019-08-02T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2019-09-23T06:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T06:58:40","slug":"the-god-of-small-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/the-god-of-small-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The God of Small Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\u00a0\u201c<strong>If you\u2019re happy in your dream, does that count?<\/strong>\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>Author: Arundhati Roy<\/p>\n<p>Arundhati Roy is a renowned Indian writer born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Her novels<\/p>\n<p>mainly focus on themes like social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker<\/p>\n<p>prize for her novel The God of small things in 1997. Being an activist and having worked for<\/p>\n<p>varied causes, she also received the Cultural freedom prize by the Lannan foundation in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>About the novel:<\/h2>\n<p>The God of Small Things surrounds a tale of a family in Ayemenem, Kerala. The authoress Arundhati Roy writes the narrative through multiple perspectives to form a combined story. The novel depicts the vision of a famous contemporary writer John Berger. He believes, \u201cNever again will a single story be told as though it\u2019s the only one.\u201d The story of the novel revolves around the childhood memories of two fraternal twins. It explains the reason why small things inflict people and their behavior. The story if evident as to how the measure of love causes differences between the twins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Genre: Domestic fiction<\/p>\n<p>Tone: Song-like, sympathetic<\/p>\n<p>Type: Novel<\/p>\n<p>Year of publication: 1997<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Significant themes<\/h2>\n<p>The value of small things over \u2018big things\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Homecoming after revolving around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Scandal intensifying the character\u2019s life events.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon of change: \u2018things can change in a day.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The preservation of things despite constant change.<\/p>\n<p>The aftermath of religious, cultural, and caste clashes.<\/p>\n<h2>Memorable quotes<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.<\/p>\n<p>This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it<\/p>\n<p>hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.<\/p>\n<p>There is a war that makes us adore our consequences and despise ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Some things come with their own punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u201cIf you\u2019re happy in your dream, does that count?\u201d Author: Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy is a renowned Indian writer born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The God of Small Things | Childhood Memories of the Twins<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The God of small things is the story of how small things affect more and become the cause of differences between the twins. 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