Sunday, March 5, 2017
Rereading The God of Small Things
Throughout Roy's The God of Small things, there is a sense of foreboding. The novel's switching of time periods makes it read almost like a mystery you are trying to piece together. The foreshadowing in the novel ranges from subtle to very obvious. I think this can be classified as one of those books that is worth reading more than once. Just flipping through the text while planning my essay, I have come across a few things that make you say to yourself, "oh that's what she meant." For example in the first chapter of the novel Roy writes, "Looking back now, to Rahel it seemed as though this difficulty that their family had with classification ran much deeper than the jam-jelly question," (24). I never would have guessed that the classification difficulties would result in Rahel and Estha's ending. I love rereading books, partly because I like to know what's going to happen. I can focus more I think the second or third time I read a piece, and I am not distracted by simply wanting to know the resolution if the story. The God of Small Things is a books I hope I can retread and focus on how intricately Roy is able to spin the web of the story. I think it's one of those magical works that you get something new out of each time you retread a part of it. Roy has filled the pages with small tidbits that lead you right to the ending, but you have absolutely no idea until you reach the last page.
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I have to agree with you Lillie!! Looking back on the book and at some of Roy's more subtle moments of foreshadowing, as some are much more obvious, I feel as if I am almost in on this big secret. Enlightened on the what seemed like madness of Roy's writing I see the true beauty and intricate planning that Roy had to put into making this book the way it is. At first it seems almost has if Roy is piecing together the way that the story is going to end but by the time I reached the end I came to realize that it was all part of Roy's plan, creating a feeling of suspense, mystery, and scandal but without the answers, without the secret key that unlocked it all. Reading back through the book again one can see when and where Roy so expertly plants these seeds of suspense. It is through reading back through the book that I, too, found the true beauty of the book and of Roy's cunning foreshadowing.
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