Arundhati Roy's Earth Woman
The best part I enjoyed while reading Arundhati Roy's novel, The God of Small Things, is her description of the earth's life and our relationship with it. Roy describes the earth as a woman, Earth Woman, who has gone through various phases in her life to have become what she is today. Describing our relationship with the Earth Woman, Roy writes that human civilization is as insignificant as a blink of an eye in the Earth Woman's life. Although this description makes us wonder what a lilliputian role we have played in the Earth Woman's life, I feel there is also a positive angle to it. It may also be possible that all the maturity and stability attained by the Earth Woman is simply to enable human civilization to grow and flourish. Anyhow, enjoy reading the following paragraphs and start thinking! “We belong nowhere”, Chako said. “We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough.