![]() ![]() There are also two primary skill areas of focus in the unit. For this reason, the teacher is encouraged to use timelines, guides to literary allusions, and or other classroom visuals or handouts to aid students in accessing and analyzing this complex text. The nonlinear plot structure of the novel as well as the multiple literary allusions and very creative use of language will provide a challenge to even the most advanced readers. In their examination of The God of Small Things, students will focus on the “small things”-literary devices, plot structure, and language-employed by Arundhati Roy to accomplish the “big things”-her rich commentary on history, colonialism, love, and memory. ![]() Told from a variety of perspectives and in a nonlinear format, the book is a complex and rich read that will both challenge and captivate students. It traces the stories of twins, Estha and Rahel, whose lives are forever shaped by a pivotal event that occurs in their early childhood. Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize, awarded to the best new piece of fiction published in the UK each year, The God of Small Things, by Indian writer Arundhati Roy, is set in the Kerala state of India and takes place over the course of two weeks in 1969 and one day of 1993. ![]()
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