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A 7 page paper which compares and contrasts the theme of survival in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and J.M. Coetzee’s Foe. No additional sources cited.
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the characters. Survival can be intricately connected with the development of a persons identity or it can be as simple as surviving a very catastrophic event. Both Arundhati Roys The
God of Small Things and J.M. Coetzees Foe possess various forms of survival. The following paper examines each work individually and then compares and contrasts the possibilities relating to the
theme of survival. Survival: Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things Roys novel is a very complex novel that carries the reader through many non-linear stories that connect
many different family members and the history of the family. It is a very intricate novel that does not always seem to make sense but always offers the reader a
look at the characters of Estha and Rahel who are twins. In this story there are numerous ways in which the student could examine the theme of survival. A
first example of how survival fits into the story involves the twins themselves. They were incredibly close as young children and then were separated early on. They needed to both
figure out how to continue in their own individual lives without the other. They were, perhaps, in many ways lost and without their full identity in the absence of the
other and as such their need to survive was often driven by their separation. Another example of survival can be seen in the relationship between the culture of their
homeland and the culture of the Western world which was always infiltrating their society. They were their own culture, but they were also well immersed in the world of English.
This is evident throughout the book. One example comes from a man, the Orangedrink Lemondrink man who will do Estha harm, as he questions Estha. "First English songs, and
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