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Colors in The God of Small Things :- Raghib Khan (Colors (Brown (Brown…
Colors in
The God of Small Things
:- Raghib Khan
Colors
White (113)
Red
Red (130)
Ruby (4)
Angry-colored (3)
Gin-nnn-ger (1)
Rosy (4)
Pink (22)
Purple
Purple (11)
Mauve (5)
Green
Green (78)
Emerald (1)
Silver
Silver (36)
Chrome (7)
Diamond (9)
Blue
Blue (101)
Car-colored (1)
Black (84)
Yellow
Yellow (75)
Blond(e) (9)
Orange (60)
Gray (36)
Gold (24)
Color [Indirect/Miscellaneous] (58)
Sunset-colored (1)
Weather-colors (1)
Finger-colored (3)
Multicolored (3)
Palette (1)
Brown
Brown (42)
Beach/Sand (4)
Beige (14)
Honey-colored (5)
Tea-colored (2)
Dirtcolored (4)
Sophie Mol
Redbrown/Red
He kissed her bluegrayblue eyes, her Entomologist's nose, her hatted
redbrown
hair.
Mammachi (with her better eye) saw
redbrown
hair (N . - . Nalmost blond), the curve of two fatfreckled
cheeks (Nnnn . . . almost rosy), bluegrayblue eyes.
A mere mer-child. With
redbrown
hair.
But her batted hair was beautiful, deep
red-brown
.
Bluegrayblue
Her eyes were
bluegray
-blue.
Ambassador Estha felt
bluegrayblue
eyes on him, and an Imperial Entomologist's nose.
He kissed her
bluegrayblue
eyes, her Entomologist's nose, her hatted redbrown hair.
To check her like a banknote. Mammachi (with her better eye) saw redbrown hair (N . - . Nalmost blond), the curve of two fatfreckled cheeks (Nnnn . . . almost rosy),
bluegrayblue
eyes.
Bluegrayblue
eyes snapped open.
She had turned her
eyelids inside out so that her eyes looked like pink-veined flesh
petals (
gray
in a black-and-white photograph).
Rahel's mind was full of millstones with
bluegrayblue
eyes.
Mauve
Her
mauve
corduroy pinafore said Holiday! in a lilting, happy font.
Something bobs past in the water and the colors catch his eye.
Mauve
. Redbrown. Beach sand.
A pair of twins and another,
whose
mauve
corduroy pinafore said Holiday! in a tilting, happy
font.
Beach sand
Her pale skin was the color of
beach sand.
Littleangels were
beach-colored
and wore bell-bottoms.
Little Girls Playing.
Sweet.
One
beach-colored
.
One brown.
Something bobs past in the water and the colors catch his eye.
Mauve. Redbrown.
Beach sand.
Notes
"Rosy" is associated with Baby Kochamma's garden gnomes twice, and once with Sophie Mol, and once with a view at dawn
There is a single instance of the term "egg whites" not associated with Estha or the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man
1984 also contains mentions of oranges and lemons, both associated with each other
The words "finger-colored" and "multicolored" refer to the socks and gloves Estha and Rahel are given by Margaret Kochamma and Ammu. The gloves are signs of innocence and youth when witnessed by the police at the History House, and appropriately taken by the police and given to their own children. Ammu gets Estha and Rahel a similar pair of socks, but those gifts are gifts for children, which Estha and Rahel no longer are, in age and innocence.
Jewelry
Gold
Mammachi
Outside in the mittam, crisp saris lay in rows and
crispened in the sun. Off-white and
gold.
Stiffening starched saris. Off-white and
gold.
Her sari was starched and perfumed. Off-white and
gold.
Orangedrink Lemondrink Man
His
gold chain
was almost
hidden by his chest hair.
His
gold wristwatch
was almost hidden by his curly
forearm hair.
Rahel
She owned seven hundred dollars. And a
gold bangle
with snakeheads.
A thin,
gold, serpent-headed bangle
glowed like a circle of orange light around her wrist.
Ammu
Until the day he died, even in the stifling Ayemenern heat, every
single day Pappachi wore a well-pressed three-piece suit and his
gold pocket watch.
She went to the village
goldsmith
and had her
heavy wedding
ring
melted down and made into a
thin bangle with snake heads
that
she put away for Rahel.
Her silk sunset-colored sari shot with gold. Rings on
every finger.
Aleyooty Ammachi (Great-grandmorther)
Her heavy, dull
gold kunukku earrings
(tokens of the Little Blessed One's Goodness) had stretched her earlobes and hung all the way down to her shoulders.
Kochu Maria
Her kunukku earrings
were thick and
gold.
Kochu Maria, the cook, still wore the thick
gold earrings
that had
disfigured her earlobes forever.
Her
gold earrings
swung fiercely.
Baby Kochamma
Gold bangles
and a beautifully crafted flat
gold chain
that she
touched from time to time, reassuring herself that it was there and
that it was hers. Like a young bride who couldn't believe her good
fortune.
Priests
The sad priests dusted out their curly beards with
goldringed
fingers as though hidden spiders had spun sudden cobwebs in them.
Kama
he baby was born sheathed in light, with
gold earrings
in his
ears and a
gold breastplate
on his chest, engraved with the emblem of the sun.
Ruby
Her ruby rings were loose.
he fingers were
soft, the ruby rings were hard.
"One piece each," Mammachi confirmed to Kochu Maria, touching the piece lightly with
rubyringed lingers to see if it was small
enough.
Gray/Age/Ghost/Death
Comrade Pillai
Comrade Pillai himself came out in the mornings in a
graying
Aertex vest, his balls silhouetted against his soft white mundu
Baby Kochamma
The dye had stained the skin on her
forehead a
pale gray,
giving her a shadowy second hairline.
Pappachi's Moth
Its pernicious ghost
gray
, furry and with unusually dense dorsal tufts--haunted every house that he ever lived in.
Murlidharan
Estha noticed that the hair on his head was curly gray, the hair in
his windy, armless armpits was wispy black, and the hair in his
crotch was black and springy.
Newspapers
Neil Armstrong
Nor did she trust the vague gray pictures that had appeared in the
Malayala Manorama that she couldn't read.
Dead Landlord
It was hard to tell in
black and white. In the gray, predawn light.
Car felt
She could feel the gray gristle of the
felt that cushioned the window glass pressing into her chinskin. She took off her sunglasses to get a better look at the dead frog squashed on the road.
Present Day
Weather
The gray sky curdled and the
clouds resolved themselves into little lumps, like substandard mattress stuffing.
The rose bowl dulled and sent down a warm gray drizzle.
A gray haze in
the rosy distance that suddenly coalesced and blackened over the
house before it plummeted through the History-hole like smoke in
a film running backwards.
Ayemenem House
White walls had turned an uneven gray.
Elephant
The gray, elephant-shaped Hole in the
Universe agitated in his sleep, then slept again.
Bellboy
His grayed undershirt showed. He had to wear his silly bellhop's
cap tilled sideways, its tight plastic strap sunk into his sagging
dewlap. It seemed unnecessarily cruel to make an old man wear a cap sideways like that and arbitrarily re-order the way in which age chose to hang from his chin.
River
Water
It was warm, the water. Graygreen
The Meenachal. Graygreen. With fish in it.
Carried away on the muffled highway. Graygreen. With fish in it.
Boat
Something gray and grizzled. Covered in
moss and lichen, smothered in
ferns.
A gray old boatplant with boatflowers and boatfruit.
They lay under the mangosteen tree, where only recently a gray
old boatplant with boatflowers and boatfruit had been uprooted by
a Mobile Republic.
Sophie Mol
She had turned her
eyelids inside out so that her eyes looked like pink-veined flesh
petals (gray in a black-and-white photograph).
Her eyes were bluegrayblue.
Ambassador Estha felt bluegrayblue eyes on him, and an Imperial Entomologist's nose.
Rahel's mind was full of millstones with bluegrayblue eyes.
To check her like a banknote. Mammachi (with her better eye) saw redbrown hair (N . - . Nalmost blond), the curve of two fatfreckled cheeks (Nnnn . . . almost rosy), bluegrayblue eyes.
He kissed her bluegrayblue eyes, her Entomologist's nose, her hatted redbrown hair.
Bluegrayblue eyes snapped open.
A Wake
A Live
ALert
Mammachi
At night, when she took off her bun, she
allowed her grandchildren to plait her remaining hair into a tight,
oiled, gray rat's tail with a rubber band at the end.
To check her like a banknote. Mammachi (with her better eye) saw redbrown hair (N . - . Nalmost blond), the curve of two fatfreckled cheeks (Nnnn . . . almost rosy), bluegrayblue eyes.
Suddenly the blind old woman in her rickrack dressing gown and
with her thin gray hair plaited into a rat's tail stepped forward and
pushed Vellya Paapen with all her strength.
Chella
How the skin on them grew gray and lifeless.
Kuttapen
He had gray calluses on his ankles from the chafing of the
rope that Paravans tied around their feet when they climbed co-
conut trees.
Ammu
Ammu looked at herself in the long mirror on the bathroom door
and the specter of her future appeared in it to mock her. Pickled.
Gray.
Her skin gray, wan,
rubbed of its luminous sheen by the neon station light.
The Cochin Harbor Terminus.
Gray in the stationlight.