God of Small Things- Discussion

An Inclass Discussion Converted to Blog

Melissa  Mcmaster and Ben Turland

So we (Melissa McMaster and Ben Turland) were supposed to talk about the novel The God of Small Things in class on March 2^nd. But as we know that class was cancelled, also the class on Wednesday was cancelled. We were asked to make it to an online discussion. So if you are wondering why there now are five on-line dialogues you now know.

Whenever you look at poetry you will look for the deep meaning in a single line or a word. But often in prose we look for the overall theme, the plot, the main characters, and the narration tactics. All the mechanics of how a novel is written is an amazing thing. But often we talk “around” the novel. We never look deep into certain sections, chapters or lines. Prose can hold up the same as poetry when it comes to meaning. A chapter in a book how hold as much as a line in a poem and sometimes we overlook that. So what we were going to do in class but now we will do here is dive more deeply into certain aspects of the novel.

There is so much detail in this novel, some much detail in the small things. But why is their a lot of detail in certain events and not in other? What do you think Roy was doing when she attributed mote detail to certain situations?