![]() ![]() ![]() They are the downtrodden, have-nots, the dalits, the deserted, the marginalized and the defenseless. ![]() In short, the novel shows maladjustment between The God of Big Things (Pappachi, Baby Kochamma, Mammachi, Chacko, Comrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Mathew) and the God of Small Things (Ammu, Velutha, Estha, Sopie Mol.) According to Roy, the term ‘ Laltain‘ means ‘The big guns of society’, and Mombathi refers to the lower strata of society, which has no support and no protection. The God of Small Things presents a confrontation between ‘The Big Man, The Laltain’ and Small Man, the Mombathi. ![]() From the very beginning it is sad, absorbed, repetitive like the tape recorder reversing and forwarding again. The sense of haunting pain and a never lifting weight of sadness govern the narrative. Ayemenem is a remote village of Kerala, the once happy home of their childhood. The narration starts with the return of a brother and a sister twins (Estha and Rahel) who had parted at their seventh year and now they have come back to Ayemenem, after twenty four years.
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