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A twenty-five page paper looking intensively at the themes of this contemporary Indian novel by Arundhati Roy. Using many quotes from the novel itself, the paper looks specifically at Roy's treatment of love, death, and the Indian caste system, as well as suggesting a meaning for the enigmatic title. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to the village where they spent their childhood; we quickly learn that something terrible happened in that village many years before, something that resulted in the death of the childrens
cousin Sophie Mol, and as a result Estha and Rahel were separated and have not seen one another since. This mystery quickly piques our interest, and the beauty of Roys
language is so intoxicating that we are compelled to read on. Three themes gradually emerge from Roys text: love; death; and the injustice of the caste system. Because the story
is told from the point of view of children -- overall, Rahels, but occasionally Esthas -- we do not see the facts of the story in the linear way that
we might if the story had concerned adults. One of the most problematical things about the novel is its very interior nature; it feels as if it were being dictated
out of some sort of dream state. We realize that as Rahel remembers the events of her childhood, they actually feel like dreams, because she has not consciously thought about
them in many years and therefore they have not been passed through the filter of adult consciousness and reprocessed there. Love: Certainly the most important aspect of the
entire novel is the childrens experience with love. Rahels relationship with her twin brother goes far beyond love; despite the fact that they are fraternal, opposite-sex twins, she firmly believes
they have a "Siamese soul" in the sense that their psyches seem to be conjoined. They sense one anothers presence, feel one anothers pain, and often do not even have
to talk to one another in order to communicate. As Roy says, "In those early amorphous years when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and
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