Avery AP Lit

In these chapters, we FINALLY learn of the events surrounding the death of Sophie Mol.  After SO MANY chapters building up to the actual telling of Sophie Mol's death, the incident itself is rather quick. Sophie drowns in an instant and by accident. All the controversy surrounding her murder has to do more with other people's social conflicts than with her death. For the twins, it is not even their role in Sophie's death that haunts them throughout their lives; for Estha and Rahel, Sophie Mol's death really represents the day on which they lost both their mother and father figures.  It also has been officially confirmed that the “God of Small Things is Velutha and that at this point in the novel we see that it  has turned into Velutha’s story as opposed to the twins. 

significant word: secrets 1. What’s the significance of the name “God of Small Things”? 2. Does Ammu’s “dream” speak to her being robbed of the chance to live her life? 3. The narrator often indirectly references the closeness of the twins.. what’s the significance of their connection?

Chapters seven through nine were constructed in an interesting fashion. It began with Ammu's death. The significance of Rhhel's feelings about Ammu loving her less further developed and made more sense.  Also, it's almost as if they mock the idea of death. Death is seen as the logical and inevitable end to life. The story of Ammu's death, then, unfolds in a nonlinear fashion. First we witness her cremation, the final affirmation that she is no longer living, then flash back to the moment when she begins to come alive again for the first time after the divorce, when she becomes attracted to Velutha. The sequence and series of events change abruptly however the transition flows. There is little dialogue in these chapters (especially chapter 9) however, there is deep meaning through the imagery.

Significant word: sadness 1. Why is the significance of Rahel examining Estha's body while he's undressing? What kind of signs of herself is she looking for? 2, What is the significance of the scene where Ammu basically tells Rahel that hurting people results into them loving you less? Does Ammu love Rahel less? 3. What makes Rahel reveal that she never wrote Estha about Ammu dying?

1. Does Ammu feeling as if her life is over/already been lived due to one failed marriage speak for the role of their culture in her life? 2. Does Rahel play any role in the significance of setting the scene of a typical “May in Ayemenem” in the opening of the novel? 3. What’s the context behind the fraternal twins when the narrator tells us that Estha Rahel never really resembled each other and that any confusing similarities between the two lie in a “deeper, more secret place”?