Estha and Rahel
Miscellaneous
Final Jeopardy
100
How are Estha and Rahel related?
What is fraternal twins?
100
Where does this novel take place?
What is Ayemenem?
200
What does Estha stop doing?
What is talking?
200
What is Kerala?
What is a state in Southern India?
300
What is unique about their relationship as children?
What is Rahel can read into Esthas thoughts and experiences?
300
Is there another reading in which sunglasses are significant? If so, which?
What is Waiting for the Barbarians?
400
What is Rahels watch is a symbol for? Why is this important and how does this relate to the rest of the book?
What is freezing/frozen time? There are many parts in the book in which suggest time is frozen and or has been preserved such as with the Pickle business.
400
How is Ammu sexually assaulted, and by who? Why is this important in terms of power?
What is Thomas Matthew sexually harasses Ammu by tapping her breasts. He demonstrates his power over her simply by being a man. Then he continues to harass her revealing what he thinks of her as a woman by bringing up her "illegitimate" children.
500
What effect does Rahel’s arrival have on Estha?
What is the noise of the world infiltrated his mind?
500
What do the Big God and the Small God represent?
What is universal turmoil and personal turmoil?
500
"Its pernicious ghost – gray, furry and with unusually dense dorsal tufts – haunted every house that he ever lived in. It tormented him and his children and his children's children" what is this referring to and why is it symbolic?
What is Pappachi's moth. He found a moth, believed it was a new species and wanted to name it after himself. However, when he showed it to entomologists, they named it after someone he didn't like. It is symbolic because it is used throughout the rest of the book to represent the experiences he had.
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