Summary of Chapter Two of The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Essa

Summary of Chapter Two of The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe system of club in India is a bond of union, but splits up thesociety into sections. It revolves around the societys idea of whatsclean and pure. It exists not only in the form of Touchability andUntouchability but also grammatical gender difference and marital status. InKerala, the setting for The God of Small Things, the caste system isdeep-rooted it has been made rigid by time and proliferated by thecompound rule. As a result, inevitably, the caste system greatlyimpacts the lives of the leading characters in the allegory Estha andRahel, Ammu and Velutha. In my essay, I am going to explore the natureof the caste system and whom it affects.The revulsion of Untouchability is so inherent in the post-colonialsociety that even with the coming of the British, the untouchables ingeneral were not only unable to escape the flagellum Untouchability.As Christians, They were made to have separate churches, withseparate ser vices, and separate priests and it was considered aspecial favour (that) they were given their own separate PariahBishop. Further more, after(prenominal) Independence they found they were notenititled to any Government benefits like job reservations or bankloans at low interest rates, because officially, on paper, there were(only) Christians, and thereof casteless.The life of Velutha, an untouchable, is greatly impacted not only inthe way the other untouchables were. Since he was young, he had toconform to acts of inferiority. He had to enter by the rump entranceof the Ayemenem House to deliver the coconuts they Velutha and hisdad had plucked from the trees in the compound and was not allowedinto the ho... ...een traditions and are afforded no real recognition as said inwhat the novel calls Locusts Stand I or legal standing. BabyKochama, once again hated them for that. She called them Half-HindhuHybrids whom no self-respecting Syrian Christian would ever marry. Asa result, furt her on the novel, their lives were greatly affected byher.The caste system on the whole traumatizes and affects Roysprotagonists life in an unhealthy way. It took away the twins needto become to someone and their identity and, later on the novel, theirchildhood. It cost Ammu her love and her freedom. It deprived Veluthaof a bright future and somehow caused his death. This way, Roy is ableto let the reader go for the atrocities of the caste system in India andbe more aware about the stereotypes the society made to differentpeople. Two thumbs and two toes up for Roy