Coexistence With Nature In God Of Small Things By Arundhati Roy

The peaceful coexistence with nature is one of a great desire of human being throughout the centuries. The author of the novel “God of Small Things” Arundhati Roy presents two of major objects in the work. First, nature in the work is referred to as the “Small Things”, also society and all that governs are presented as the “Big Things”. During the passages of the work, nature which is the “Small Things” seems to consider as triumph the “Big Things”. The idea by Arundhati Roy sounds quite odd at first thought, because usually nature is consider as bigger than human. In general, nature embraces every human being as a mother nature even if they are not interested to taking care of nature. Even though the title does putting further questions on a table, there are attempts to correct imperfect issues of the “Big Things” by nature in Ayemenem.

During the passage of the work, Roy describes how the nature attempts to correct all that imperfection in Ayemenem. The story

According to the novel, there was a conflict about Sophie Mol’s funeral. After unexpected death of Sophie Mol, most of the family refuses to have a proper funeral because of her religion. The family argues that they are Christian but Sophie Mol is not who did not baptized. It is such a sad moment that relating religion issue to a little girl’s death. Also, noticeable person who’s evolved with the religious discrimination is Baby Kochamma. She is the person with bitterness and jealousy based on this issue. She hated Velutha so much, because he in love with Ammu and even with her children twins. She could not accept the fact that untouchable and Hindu related to her family. Eventually, Baby Kochamma is the one who lead Velutha to death by threatened the twins and lying to polices. The novel address that religion is just an excuse of internal ambition. Baby Kochamma is the example of the result a terrible tragic of religious