Characters
This character is strict and controlling due to her regrets about a romantic relationship
Who is Baby Kochamma
History House
What is the decay of colonial power
Touch
What shows both comfort and danger in relationships
How Baby Kochamma attempted to get closer to her love interest.
What is becoming a nun.
Where Chacko went to school.
Where is Oxford.
This character symbolizes innocence and the dominance of Western validation in the family
Who is Sophie Mol
Moths
Fear. Fear of not being relevant.
Pappachi's Moth
What is generational trauma.
Estha was Returned as a result of this event.
What is Sophie Mol's funeral.
Hugo
What is de Saint-Aignan
This character represents the lingering effects of colonial hierarchy through his obsession with status.
Who is Pappachi
The Plymouth
What is control
Footprints
What is the erasing of history.
The occasion for which Sophie Mol and her English mother returned to India.
What is Christmas
What puts Ammu in the margins of respectability in Ayemamen
Who is Ammu.
This character displays how women can have some power in. bsiness but be controlled by the family.
Who is Mammachi
Pickle Factory
What is decay, and business and relationship breakdown.
Small things.
What are small personal moments, private feelings. Ex: Ammu dancing freely at night by the water.
The event that led Ammu to flee back home with the twins.
What is her husband turning his violence towards the twins
How did Miss Mitten die? (Be specific)
What is: she was reversed into by a milk van.
The man with no arms who sits naked on the milestone. Double points if you can name the place that the milestone addresses.
Who is Murlidharan. Where is Cochin.
Baby Kochamma's Garden
What is Control, and appearances.
Big Things
What are powerful social rules and systems, like the caste system and family authority
The name of the Marxist movement in India
What is The Naxalite Movement
Give one of the two theories of how Marxism took root in Kerala.
What is:
1. Lots of Christianity
2. High rates of literacy