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Happiness in The God of Small Things by Keoni Nguyen (Happy (27)…
Happiness in
The God of Small Things
by Keoni Nguyen
Joy (11)
"...Our js. will never be happy enough".
Chacko to Estha and Rahel
negative
Occurs in the car on the way to the movie theater/hotel
"Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite j."
Chacko to darkness/himself more so than to Rahel
negative
Occurs in the hotel room the night before Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma arrive
Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate j. sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnatefoy. With a
church
sound to it. Like a
sad
fish
with fins all over.
Rahel
negative
natural world
"Hello, Ladies," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice (last night's voice in which he said , Love. Madness. Hope. Infinnate j.).
Rahel recalling what Chacko had said
Occurs when Chacko and family are welcoming and picking up Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma from the airport
A small tin
sign
on a big
banyan tree
said For V.D. Sex Complaints contact Dr. OK. J.
Occurs when passing by a number of strikes after picking up Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma
Part of environment/background
Natural world
Achoo, Jose, Yako, Anian, Elayan, Kuttan, Vijavan, Vawa, J., Sumathi, Ammal, Annamma, Kanakamma, Latha, Sushila, Vijayamma.
Names of male workers (?) who work at the Paradise Pickles factory
Occurs when the family returns from picking up Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma
Estha, delirious with j., jumped on Velutha, wrapped his
legs
around his
waist
and kissed him.
Estha feels this when Velutha tells him that he can fix the boat within a day.
Occurs when Estha and Rahel bring Velutha the boat that they found for him to fix.
positive reaction
Human Body
This man tonight is dangerous. His despair complete. This story is the
safety net
above which he swoops and dives like a brilliant clown in a bankrupt circus. It's all he has to keep him from crashing through the world like a falling
stone
. ... His Infinnate J.
About the Kathakali Man, playing Kama, who has been abandoned by all.
Occurs when Rahel and Estha watch the Kathakali performance, when they're older.
natural world
Constructed world
Mammachi j.fully welcomed him back into her life.
Mammachi's emotions towards welcoming Chacko back home after his divorce from Margaret Kochamma.
Occurs after Chacko and Margaret's divorce
positive reaction to something that is conventionally seen negative
A man sitting on a
red weighing machine
unstrapped his
artificial leg
(
knee
downwards) with a black
boot
and a nice white sock painted on it. Inside it he stored his
ticket
. ... His infinnate j.
Homeless man at the train station
Occurs when Ammu and Rahel are sending Estha onto the train to go live with his father
constructed world
Human Body
Gradually Chappu Thamburan acquired a new ensemble. Without admitting it to each other or themselves, they linked their fates, their futures (their Love, their Madness, their Hope, their Infinnate J.), to his.
Chappu Thamburan
associated with anxiety and distress, so negative
Happy (27)
H.
earthworms
frolicked purple in the slush.
Occurs when Estha and Rahel return as adults to Ayemenem
Natural world
positive
earthworms about natural existence
My dearest Papa, I am well and h. in the service of Our Lady.
Baby Kochamma says she's happy in a letter she is writing to her family from the nunnery, but she is in fact not.
negative
"...Our joys never h. enough."
Said by Chacko to Estha and Rahel about humanity
negative
Twinkle was a word with crinkled, h. edges.
Part of Chacko's narrative to Estha and Rahel describing the creation of the universe.
Occurs during the car ride to the movie theater
This "Twinkle" was in Earth Woman's eye.
They came back h., with
glass bangles
and
flowers
in their
hair
.
The factory women that Chacko adored
natural world and the constructed world
positive
Human Body
To keep the others h., and since she knew nobody else would hire him as a carpenter, Mammachi paid Velutha less than she would a Touchable carpenter but more than she would pay a Paravan.
Touchable factory workers
Concerning the hiring and pay of Velutha, Mammachi satisfies the touchable factory workers by paying Velutha less
So very h..
Referring to Chacko, who is excited to see Margaret Kochamma and Sophie Mol.
Right before Margaret Kochamma and Sophie Mol land.
Anybody could see that Chacko was a proud and h. man to have had a wife like Margaret.
Chacko
When Margaret Kochamma and Sophie Mol arrive.
afterwards Rabel came and we ate two more
bananas
and we give a kiss to Ammu because it was her birthday afterwards we sang, h. birthday.
Estha's journal from when he was young, being read by an older Rahel.
natural world
Mammachi had a separate
entrance
built for Chacko's
room
, which was at the eastern end of the
house
, so that objects of his "Needs" wouldn't have to go traipsing through the house. She secretly slipped them money to keep them h.
The female factory workers due to Mammachi
negative and positive
constructed world
So Mammachi had the satisfaction of regarding Margaret Kochamma as just another whore, Aniyan the dhobi was h. with his daily gratuity, and of course Margaret Kochamma remained blissfully aware of the whole arrangement.
Aniyan the dhobi due to Mammachi
positive
After Margaret Kochamma arrived to the house in Ayemenem
Having thought these thoughts, Estha Alone was h. with his bit of wisdom.
Estha stirring the jam in the Paradise Pickles factory after returning with Margaret Kochamma and Sophie Mol from the airport.
not necessarily positive
cognitive world
Two h.
hearts
soared like colored
kites
in a skyblue
sky
.
natural world and constructed world
Estha and Rahel, on their way to see Velutha
positive
Human Body
Temporarily, for a few h. moments, the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man shut his yellow
smile
and went away.
positive
Velutha's appearance causes old traumas, particularly for Estha, to go away.
When Rahel and Estha went to visit Velutha to fix the boat they found.
Time
Ephemeral, Fragile
Human Body
Estha
cognitive world
& 16. "I was h.," Ammu said, and realized that she had been.
"If you're h. in a dream, Ammu, does that count?" Estha asked.
Ammu is referring to the happiness she experienced in the dream.
Estha and Rahel question it.
State of being
Occurs after Ammu wakes up from her nap, during which she dreamed of Velutha
positive
cognitive world
Ammu
They looked h.
Sophie Mol's reaction to seeing the picture of Margaret and Chacko's wedding picture.
Occurs after Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma arrive to Ayemenem.
Younger Chacko and Margaret
The only sign that a fat man lurked inside him was his shining, h.
cheeks
.
Chacko's appearance when he was younger, around the time he met Margaret Kochamma.
positive
Human Body
Margaret Kochamma was h. with Joe.
positive
Margaret Kochamma, when she was with Joe, in comparison to what would have been with Chacko
Her mauve corduroy
pinafore
said Holiday! in a lifting h. font.
Sophie Mol's outfit
Constructed world
Describing the font of the pinafore
Youthful, Bubbly
"But other workers were not h. with him. ..."
Comrade Pillai speaking about Velutha to Chacko
Occurs when Chacko goes to Comrade Pillai to speak about the new Paradise Pickles product packaging.
The factory workers
He was suddenly h.
Velutha after being damned by Mammachi and the rest of the family, before he heads over to the History House.
Velutha has a positive/optimistic outlook on the future
Velutha
Three children on the
riverbank
. A pair of twins and another, whose mauve corduroy
pinafore
said Holiday! in a tilting, h. font.
Natural world and constructed world
When the children (Estha, Rahel, and Sophie Mol) set out into the river, before the tragedy.
Describing the font on Sophie's pinafore
Youthful, Bubbly
Past
butterflies
drifting through the air like h. messages.
Natural world
This sentence appears before the Kottayam Police enter the History House.
simile
Butterflies to messages
Hidden under the h. humming of
hotel
cooks.
Occurs when the History House becomes a tourist attraction
The hotel cooks
They looked h.
The human figures in the glass paperweight on the policeman's desk that Rahel and Estha are looking at.
Occurs when Baby Kochamma pressure the children to lie on behalf of their mother to the police.
constructed world
"You're not angry, Ammu." In a h. whisper.
Rahel to Ammu
When Ammu tucks Rahel into her bed, after Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma arrive in Ayemenem and before the tragedy.
positive
Happiness (5)
The twins were too young to understand all this, so Baby Kochamma grudged them their moments of high h. when a
dragonfly
they'd caught lifted a small
stone
off their palms with its legs...
Natural world
Occurs after Ammu returns to the house with the children and divorced.
Baby Kochamma's perspective
positive
The busker glowed with Prime-Time H., and for a few moments, deprivation took a backseat.
Occurs when Baby Kochamma and Maria become obsessed with the TV, the busker is on a show they are watching.
Constructed world
"The h. -- does it count?"
Estha questions Ammu
Occurs afters she wakes up from a nap, during which she dreamt of Velutha
uncertain
He can reveal the nugget of sorrow that h. contains.
Describing the Kathakali Man
Occurs when Rahel and Estha are watching his performance
negative
Only that what they shared that night was not h., but hideous grief.
When Estha and Rahel have sex.
negative
Cheerful (10)
So Small God laughed a hollow laugh, and skipped away c..
negative
Small God
The c. chop-chop-chopping of
ginger
and
garlic
.
natural world
The History House
They looked c. in the
photographs
, Lenin and his wife.
Comrade Pillai's son, Lenin, and his wife
constructed world
When an older Rahel encounters Comrade Pillai
Colored
rubber finger guards
(bright, like c., thick
condoms
) were taken off.
When Chacko and the family return to Ayemenem with Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma
constructed world
She hoped that under his careful cloak of c. he housed a living, breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she so raged against.
Ammu's hopes that Velutha was at the march.
Occurs when Ammu and Velutha see each other after the family returns from picking up Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma.
positive
That afternoon, Ammu traveled upwards through a dream in which a c. man with one
arm
held her close by the light of an
oil lamp
.
Ammu's nap after they return home.
cognitive
Velutha
Human Body
Constructed world
The c. man without footprints--did he count?
Ammu's thoughts after she wakes from her nap
Velutha
positive
Like the kisses of c. one-
armed
men in dreams.
cognitive
Ammu's continued thoughts after she wakes from her nap
Velutha
positive
He looked c., as though he was with an imaginary friend whose company he enjoyed.
A description of a younger Chacko
When Chacko and Margaret Kochamma first met
The c. one-
armed
man with salty
skin
and a
shoulder
that ended abruptly like a
cliff
emerged from the shadows of the jagged
beach
and walked towards her.
Ammu's thoughts after her nap, before dinner
Velutha
Natural world
Human Body
positive
Pleasure (3)
His mind was full of cupboards, cluttered with secret p.
Describing Murlidharan, the naked looney that the family encounters in the car on the way to the movie theater
positive
It was a p.
When the busker on the TV gets interrupted by TV show host Phil Donahue, on a TV show being watched by Baby Kochamma
For the busker
As though they knew already that each tremor of p. they would pay with an equal measure of
pain
.
When Ammu and Velutha have sex
positive and negative
Gleeful (1)
Her
earlobes
had been distended into weighted
loops
that swung around her
neck
, her
earrings
sitting in them like g. children in a merry-go-(not all the way)-round.
Constructed world
A description of Mammachi
Human body
Delight (8)
She was d. that Estha had not spoken to Rahel.
Baby Kochamma
When an older Rahel returns to Ayemenem
negative
Then, unkindly, "Ask your daddy to buy you an
Air Condition
!" and he booted with d. at his own wit and timing.
During the communist march that the family gets stuck in on the way to the movie theater
negative
Constructed world
He kept dropping his
packages
and saying, "EndeDeivomay! Eee sadbanangll!" Estha laughed a high, d. laugh.
Estha, because of the comedian Adoor Basi
positive
Occurs when they are near the Arrivals lounge, after Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma introduce themselves.
Constructed world
As he tossed her up and she landed in his
arms,
Ammu saw on Rahel's
face
high with d. of the airborne young.
Velutha makes Rahel delighted, Ammu witnesses it
positive
Occurs when the family returns from picking up Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma
Human Body
And that became a d., breathless, Rumplestiltskin-like dance among the
rubber trees
.
Constructed world
Positive
Velutha and Rahel, looking for Estha
Occurs when the family returns from picking up Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma
Here they have discovered for themselves the disconnected d. of underwater farting
Natural world
Estha and Rahel
Occurs after the twins find the boat
positive
Young voices, underlining with d. the scatology.
Estha and Rahel
Occurs when the twins go to search for Velutha to fix the boat
positive
Kama shuddered in d.
One of the characters in Kathakali Man's story, after he receives a kiss from his mother
Occurs when Estha and Rahel go to watch the Kathakali Man performance
positive
Bliss (2)
Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realized that the slightly feverish glitter in her bridegroom's
eyes
had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal b., but approximately eight large pegs of
whiskey
.
The illusion of bliss from Ammu's ex-husband witnessed by Ammu
negative
Ammu reflects on her wedding day
constructed world
Human Body
So Mammachi had the satisfaction of regarding Margaret Kochamma as just another whore, Aniyan the dhobi was happy with his daily gratuity, and of course Margaret Kochamma was b.
unaware
of the whole arrangement.
Margaret Kochamma
When Margaret Kochamma arrives in Ayemenem