INCEST IS NOT OKAY
BAKKIES AND GUNS AND BOARS, OH MY
DON'T EAT BABIES
#GORILLAZ4LYFE
QUOTENT QUOTABLES
100
An "untouchable" that was first seen at a communist rally and last seen being beat to death by cops. #RIP
Who is Velutha?
100
This segregation of blacks and whites in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 was totally not cool.
What is apartheid?
100
A story in which all constructs of society have broken down leading to a world that is falling apart.
What is a post-apocalyptic story?
100
This was the name of Hazel's contradictory church.
What is "the Church of Christ Without Christ"?
100
"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth."
What is Wise Blood?
200
A symbol for the inability to move on from the past, often used in conjunction with Rahel's heart.
What is Pappachi's Moth?
200
She wrote this book and was on first name basis with Nelson Mandela.
Who is Nadine Gordimer?
200
According to the father, this is why he and the boy were still doing what they were doing. #feelthebern
What is "carrying the fire"?
200
This gorilla told Enoch to "go to hell" sending him on a journey to become a gorilla himself... because that's a thing.
Who is Gonga?
200
"They looked different there—you should have seen the clothes in their cupboard. And the glasses—for visitors, when they drink wine. Here they haven’t got anything—just like us."
What is July's People?
300
He molested Estha in a movie theater causing Estha much pain for the lot of the novel, and, let's face it, probably lead to him having sex with his sister.
Who is the Orange-Lemon Drink Man?
300
In a meat-induced fever dream, Bam witnessed this on his... erm... manhood?
What is boar's blood?
300
According to the father, this is why he and the boy were still doing what they were doing. #feelthebern
What is "carrying the fire"?
300
This old building near the zoo holds the new jesus, savior of Hazel Motes' church slash creepy little mummy dude.
What is MVSEVM?
300
“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined."
What is The God of Small Things?
400
"Never again will a single story be told as if it is the only one."
What is the epigraph?
400
This common phrase was used several times throughout the book to describe the Smales' home in Johannesburg.
What is "back there"?
400
The mother chose this path over a life lived in despair, leaving her kid and and husband behind.
What is suicide?
400
This preacher once promised to blind himself, but actually didn't.
Who is Asa Hawks?
400
"Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you spoke of you were right."
What is The Road?
500
Always at ten til' two, this symbolized an inability to move on from the past.
What is Rahel's toy watch?
500
This was July's real name, a fact that surprised Maureen.
What is Mwawate?
500
The only named character in the book who chooses this pseudonym meaning "Jehova is God."
Who is Ely?
500
Hazel buys this run down car and eventually runs over someone with it.
What is the essex?
500
“Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.”
What is The God of Small Things?
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