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RETURN- The God of Small Things (Estha (And now, twenty-three years later,…
RETURN- The God of Small Things
"Re-return"
And now, twenty-three years later, their father had re-Returned
Estha.
Now that he'd been re-Returned, Estha walked all over
Ayemenern.
The cold puppy shivered\x97and watched.
Baby Kochamma and Kochu Maria, the vinegar-hearted, short-
tempered, midget cook, were the only people left in the Ayemenern
House when Estha was re-Returned.
Then Baby Kochamma wrote to say that Estha had been re-
Returned.
Estha
And now, twenty-three years later, their father had re-Returned
Estha.
Two weeks later, Estha was Returned
After Sophie Mol's funerall, when Estha was Returned, their father sent him to a boys' school in Calcutta. He was not an excep-
tional student, but neither was he backward, nor particularly bad at
anything.
Now that he'd been re-Returned, Estha walked all over
Ayemenern.
The cold puppy shivered\x97and watched.
Baby Kochamma and Kochu Maria, the vinegar-hearted, short-
tempered, midget cook, were the only people left in the Ayemenern
House when Estha was re-Returned.
Then Baby Kochamma wrote to say that Estha had been re-
Returned.
Already she regretted having written to her about Estha's return.
Her little toes never touched the floor. It was her idea that
Estha be Returned.
And so Estha was Returned in a train with his tin trunk and his
beige and pointy shoes rolled into his khaki holdall.
Rahel
He was the first person in Ayemenern to hear of Rahel's return.
She occasionally wrote to Chacko and Mammachi, but never returned to Ayemenern.
She
returned with him to Boston.
Rahel gave up her job at the gas station and left America
gladly. To return to Ayemenern.
Father Mulligan
Eventually the time came
for Father Mulligan to return to Madras.
Baby Kochamma
Two years later, Baby Kochamma returned from Rochester with
a diploma in Ornamental Gardening, but more in love with Father
Mulligan than ever.
She returned on her small feet to her cross-stitch embroi-
dery.
She said nothing, but
slapped Estha whenever she could in the days she was there before
she returned to England.
Ammu
She thought that anything, anyone at all, would be better than returning to Ayemenern.
When his
bouts of violence began to include the children, and the war with
Pakistan began, Ammu left her husband and returned, unwelcomed, to her parents in Ayemenern.
Within the first few months of her return to her parents' home,
Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of
sympathy.
Ammu's Husband
Ammu sat in the verandah of her home waiting anxiously for her husband to return.
She was surprised when he returned looking despondent but not devastated.
Chacko
They went by bus and returned by boat
When Chacko resigned his job in Madras and returned to
Ayemenern with a Bharat bottle-sealing machine, it was Velutha who re-assembled it and set it up.
Reinstatement
The Congress Party returned to
power.
Velutha
Velutha heard of the accident a whole year after it happened.
It had been five months since he returned to Ayemenern.
When he returned to Ayemenern after his years away from home,
Velutha still had about him the same quickness.
Ammu+ twins
They had only just arrived in Ayemenern with Ammu and were too young to remember Velutha when he left.
But in the months since he had returned, they had grown to be the best of frien
He returned the comb to his pocket, stepped off the tins and put
them back with the bottle and swab and broom.