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River How does the the river reflect Ayemenem's Society- Alexander…
River
How does the the river reflect Ayemenem's Society- Alexander Lopez-Perez
Animated (lifelike)
The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. (3)
The first third of the river was their friend.
But
then, in a slow green whisper, the river (with fish in it, with the sky
and trees in it), bubbled in.
Years later, when Rahel returned to the river, it greeted her with a ghastly skull's smile, with holes where teeth had been, and a limp hand raised from a hospital bed. (118)
Time/Years
Rahel
Function/Return/Greeted/Raised
Evaluation/Limp/Ghastly/Holes
Institution/Hosptial
Body/Teeth/Skull
Eventually, by evening, the river would rouse itself to accept the day's offerings and sludge off to the sea, leaving wavy lines of thick white scum in its wake. (119)
Time/Eventually/Evening/Day
Evaluation/Thick/Wavy
Function/Rouse/Accept/Leaving/Wake
Material/Scum/Sludge
But
then, in a slow green whisper, the river (with fish in it, with the sky and trees in it), bubbled in. (195)
Evaluation/Slow
Natural World/Fish/Sky/Trees
Function/Bubbled/Whisper
Color/Green
Out in his boat at dawn, at the mouth of the river he has known
all his life. It is still quick and swollen from the previous night's rain. (244)
Technology/Boat
Natural World/Rain
Time/Dawn/Previous/Night
Evaluation/Quick/Swollen
Body/Mouth
Function/Known
State/Life
The river itself
was dark and quiet. An absence rather than a presence, betraying no
sign of how high and strong it really was. (275)
Affect/Absence/Presencek
Function/Betraying
Evalutaion/Quiet/Dark/Stong
Space/High
A
river accepting the offering. One small life. A brief sunbeam. (277)
Function/Accepting/Offering
Evalution/Small/Brief
State/Life
Quantity/one
Behind them the river pulsed through the darkness, shimmering
like wild silk. (317)
Space/Behind
Function/Pulsed
Natural World/Silk
Evaluation/Shimmering/Darkness
As Space
Trees bent.
Further away, in the wind and rain, on the banks of the river, in
the sudden thunderdarkness of the day, Estha was walking. (11)
Function/Bent/Walking
Natural World/ Wind/Rain/Banks
Space/Further Away
Evalutation/Thunderdarkeness
Through the holes in her ears you could see
the hot river and the dark trees that bent into it. (30)
Sense/See
Function/Bent
Evalutation/Dark/Hot
Named Body/Ears
Natural World/Trees/Holes
He slept outdoors, on the banks of the river. (73)
Velutha
Function/Slept
Space/Outdoors
Natural World/Banks
Despite the fact that it was June, and raining, the river was no
more than a swollen drain now. (118)
Time/June/Raining
Evaluation/Swollen
Function/Drain
On the other side of the river, the steep mud banks changed
abruptly into low mud walls of shanty hutments. (119)
Space/Other Side/Low/Steep
Institution/Class/Poor
Evaluation/Muddy/Shanty/Abruntly
Natural World/Mud/Banks
Technology/Walls
Function/Changes
In its absence it left an aura, a palpable shimmering that was as plain to see as the water in a river or the sun in the sky. (168)
Evalutation
Shimmering/Palpable/Plain
Natural World/Sun/Sky/Water
Space/Absense/Aura
Sense/See
And Estha waiting for her. By the river. (192)
Characters
Estha
Rahel
Function/Waiting
Space/By
"I don't want you playing any
silly games on this river." (169)
Characters
Rahel
Estha
Mammachi
Evaluation/Silly
Quantity/Any
She put him in a reed
basket and cast him away in a river. The child was found downriver
by Adhirata, a charioteer. (221)
Function/Put/Found/Cast
Space/Downriver
Natural World/Reed
Technology/Basket
Characters
Adhirata
Child
Sense/Sight
The river had risen, its water quick and black,
snaking towards the sea, carrying with it cloudy night skies, a whole
palm frond, part of a thatched fence, and other gifts the wind had
given it. (273)
Function/Snaking/Quick/Risen/Carrying/Given
Evaluation/Black/Cloudy/
Time/Night
Natural World/Water/wind/sea/Palm frond
Interaction/Gifts
Technology/Fence
Retainer
Some days he walked along the banks of the river that smelled of
shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans. (14)
Time/Days
Function/Walked/Bought
Technology/Pesticides
Institution/World Bank
Sense/Smelled
Estha
One night Pappachi broke the bow of Mammachi's violin and threw it in the river. (41)
Affect/Anger
Technology/Bow/Violin
Characters
Pappachi
Mammachi
Function/Throw/Broke
Farther downstream in the middle of the river, Velutha floated
on his back, looking up at the stars. (315)
Space/ Farther Down/Middle
Body/Back/
Function/Looked/Floated
Velutha
Natural World/ Stars
So he was free to lie in the river and drift slowly with the
current. A log. A serene crocodile. Coconut trees bent into the river
and watched him float by. (315)
Velutha
Natural World/Log/Coconut Trees/Current/Crocodile
Function/Drift/Bent/Watched/Lie
Motion/Current/Slow
Affect/Serene
Sense/Sight
To cross
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Reverend Ipe continued to be known as
Punnyan Kunju Little Blessed One and people came down the river in boats all the way from Alleppey and Ernakulam,
with children to be blessed by him. (23)
Function/Blessed/Came Down
Space/Alleppey/Ernakulam
Technology/Boats
Characters
Reverend Ipe
Institutions/Religion
Estha and Rahel had no doubt that the house Chacko meant was
the house on the other side of the river, in the middle of the abandoned rubber estate where they
had never been. (51)
Characters
Estha
Chacko
Rahel
Material/Rubber
Space/Other Side/Middle
Function/Doubt
Shelter/Estate/HOuse
That they
would cross the river and be where they weren't supposed to be,
with a man they weren't supposed to love. (53)
Evalutation/Weren't suppose to/Love
Characters
Rahel
Estha
Velutha
Not until he saw,
night after night, a little boat being rowed across the river (74)
Papayyan
Fear
Function/Rowed
Evaluation/Little
Technology/Boat
Sense/Saw
Time/Night
Space/Across
He chatted to them about the weather. The
river. The fact that in his opinion coconut trees were getting shorter
by the year. (181)
Dialogue
Characters
Estha
Rahek]
Sophie Mol
Velutha
Function/Chatted/Shorter
Evaluation/Opinion/Fact
Natural World/Weather
Time/Year
The boat that Ammu would use to cross the river. To love by
night the man her children loved by day. (193)
Characters
Ammu
Velutha
Rahel
Estha
Function/To Love/Loved/Cross/Use
Technology/Boat
Time/Day/Night
in the middle of a respectable river, or the
Other Side, was no place for children to Linger, Loll or Learn
Things. (194)
Evaluation/rRespectable
Space/Other Side/ No place/Middle
Funcition/Linger/Learn/Loll
Characters
Children
Touchable policemen when they crossed the swollen river. (251)
Institution/Touchable/Policement
Evaluation/Swollen
Function/Crossed
The last betrayal that sent Velutha
across the river, swimming against the current, in the dark and rain,
well in time for his blind date with history. (267)
Interaction/Betrayel
Time/This Time/History/in time
Function
/Swimming/Sent/
Space/Across
Sense/Blind
Motion/Current/Against
Natural World/Rain
As feeling
Though you couldn't see the river from the house anymore, like
a seashell always has a sea-sense, the Ayemenern House still had a
river-sense. (30)
Sense/See
Evalution/River-like/Sea-sense/Like/couldn't
Space/Ayemenern House
Technology/House
Time/Always/Still/Anymore
Natural Worl/Seashell
He had seen the Crawling Backwards Days and his gratitude to Mammachi and her family for all that they had done for him was as wide and deep as a river in spate. (73)
Gratitude
Characters
Papayyan
Mammachi
Function/Crawling
Time/Days
He longed for the river. Because water al-
ways helps. (108)
People
Estha
Velutha
Longing
They dreamed of their river. (116)
Characters
Estha
Rahel
Function/Dream
Affect/Longed
Interpersonal/Self/their
Inside the curtain, Rahel closed her eyes and thought of the
green river, of the quiet deep-swimming fish, and the gossamer
wings of the dragonflies (that could see behind them) in the sun. (141)
Rahel
Longing
Function/Thought/Closed/Swimming
Sense/See
Body/Eyes
Evaluation/Quick/Quiet
Natural World/Gossomer/Sun/Dragonflies/Wings
Color/Green
Technology/Curtains
But this time it was a different kind of silence. An
old river silence. (190)
Time/This Time
Evaluation/Different/Old
Sense/Silence
So this first third of the river they knew well. The next two-thirds less so. (194)
Characters
Rahel
Estha
Quantity/1/3,2/3
Evalution/Knew Well/Less so
This river of ours--she
isn't always what she pretends to be. (201)
Funciton/Pretends
Time/always
Self/Ours
This
Baby Kochamma and Mammachi thought that they
might have gone down to the river for a swim, which was worrying
because it had rained heavily the previous day and a good part of
the night. They knew that the river could be dangerous. (238)
Characters
Mammachi
Baby Kochamma
Rahel
Estha
Sophie Mol
Function/Thought/Knew/Worrying/Swimming
Evaluation/Dangerous/Heavily
Time/Night/Previous/Day
Natural World/Rain
He
rows home--Thaiy thaiy thakka thaiy thaiy thome--thinking how
wrong it is for a fisherman to believe that he knows his river well (245)
Function/Rows/Thinking/Knows/Well/Believe
Evaluation/Wrong
Characters/Fisherman
Giver
He caught fish in the river and cooked it on an open
fire. (73)
Velutha
Function/Caught/Cook
Natural World/Fish
Velutha
So now they had two harvests a year instead of one.
More rice, for the price of a river. (118)
Time/Harvest/Year
Quantity/two
Natural World/Rice
Institutions/ Price
On warm days the smell of shit lifted off the river and hovered
over Ayemenern like a hat. (119)
Warm
Natural World/Shit
Function/Lifted/Hovered
Place/Ayemenern
Senses/Smell
A breeze lifted off
the river and cooled their warm bodies. (320)
Natural World/Breeze
Function/Lift
warm/cool
Velutha
Ammu
When embraced
The moonlit river
fell from his swimming arms like sleeves of silver. (273)
Natural World/River
Color/Silver
Function/swimming
Body/arms
She didn't see the knob of his head bobbing over the dark river. (315)
Characters
Velutha
Ammu
Body/Head
Function/Bobbing
Sense/See
As he
rose from the dark river and walked up the stone steps, she saw that
the world they stood in was his.(315)
Characters
Velutha
Ammu
Natural World/Stone
Functon/Rose/Walked
He stood before her with the river dripping from him. (316)
Characters
Velutha
Ammu
Function/Drip/Stood
She smelled the river on him (317).
Characters
Ammu
Velutha
Sense/Smell
She sipped the last of the river from the hollow
of his navel. (318)
Character
Ammu
Velutha
Interaction/Sip
Space/Deep
She was as wide and
deep as a river in spate. He sailed on her waters (318)
Characters
Ammu
Velutha
Natural World
River
Space
Deep