The next day Sophie and Margaret arrive, and the family returns to Ayemenem.Įstha fears that the Orangedrink Man will come for him, so he and Rahel find a boat and row across the river to the “History House,” the abandoned home of an Englishman who “went native.” The twins set up a hideout there. The family then goes to see The Sound of Music, and Estha is molested by the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man, a vendor at the theater.
Estha, Rahel, Ammu, Chacko, and Baby Kochamma make a trip to the airport, and on the way their car is trapped by a Communist march. Joe dies in an accident, and Chacko invites Margaret Kochamma to Ayemenem for the holidays. The main action centers around Sophie Mol’s visit to Ayemenem. The Ipes live near an Untouchable (an inferior caste) family that includes Velutha, a young man who works for Chacko and is beloved by the twins. In the wider society of Kerala, the Communist Party is gaining power and threatens to overthrow landlords like the Ipes. After the twins were born the two separated and Ammu moved back to Ayemenem. Ammu married Baba, trying to escape Ayemenem, but Baba turned out to be an abusive alcoholic. Chacko returned to Ayemenem and took over the pickle factory. They had a daughter, Sophie Mol, and then Margaret left Chacko for a man named Joe. Chacko went to Oxford and married Margaret Kochamma, an English woman. Baby Kochamma is a bitter, jealous old woman who unrequitedly loved an Irish missionary. Behind her house is the Meenachal River and her pickle factory, Paradise Pickles & Preserves. By 1969 Pappachi is dead and Mammachi is blind.
In the backstory before 1969, Mammachi was married to Pappachi, an Imperial Entomologist who beat her cruelly. Most of the plot occurs in 1969, focusing on the seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel, who live with their mother Ammu, their grandmother Mammachi, their uncle Chacko, and their great-aunt Baby Kochamma. The story centers around the wealthy, land-owning, Syrian Christian Ipe family of Ayemenem, a town in Kerala, India. The events of The God of Small Things are revealed in a fragmentary manner, mostly jumping back and forth between scenes in 19, with backstory scattered throughout.
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