The God of Small Things: Chapters 7-9

Velutha is wonderful. There has not been much about him yet, but I think he is fantastic. He is so good with Estha and Rahel. He seems like a genuinely good person. I'm worried about what is going to happen to him, though. This book is so cryptic! It appears that he has an unpleasant future awaiting him. In chapter 9, it said he left a Velutha shaped hole in the universe, which seeped darkness. It also said that Ammu followed the darkness into the Velutha shaped hole in the universe, which makes me think once again that they have a little something going on.

I wonder if what is going to happen to Velutha has anything to do with the way Ammu seemed to unravel. I don't know exactly how circumstances came to be the way they were, but I was shocked at how Ammu was before she died. The phlegm thing really grossed me out. It was true, but still disgusting. For the rest of my life, I will now consider yellow phlegm as "ripe." I think that Ammu's condition was a result of a combination between Velutha's unpleasant future that has yet to be revealed and the death of Sophie Mol.

I get the feeling that everyone does not really like Ammu or her children. They didn't seem to mind her before Margaret Kochamma and Sophie Mol came, though. Chacko is not very kind to his sister. I don't know much about Margaret Kochamma, but I kind of want to punch her in the face. She was not very nice to Chacko, and she left him, taking their daughter with her. I don't think Chacko ever really got to see his daughter after she left. That is terrible. Kids only grow up once. Margaret Kochamma took that experience from Chacko without even caring. Her daughter grew up without even getting the chance to know her own father (who loves her more than anything).

I can definitely understand why Rahel was feeling a bit hostile towards Sophie Mol. Everyone was fawning over her when she arrived and they were all too eager to replace Estha and Rahel with Sophie Mol. It seems like they only ever paid attention to the twins because they were the only children around, but now that Sophie Mol has arrived, the twins are hardly worthy of their attention. I have to give Sophie Mol credit, though. She doesn't like the attention she is getting, either. She was pretty upset when Rahel and Estha ditched her to visit Velutha. Like Rahel said, she is human. Poor Sophie Mol. We already know what her fate is.

I feel like I should be keeping a scorecard on the fates of these characters. Sophie Mol: dead; Ammu: dead (at a viable, die-able age); Velutha: unknown, but surely not good. No wonder Estha and Rahel are the way that they are now! Their childhood was pretty awful. Not to mention they probably got blamed for things that happened. I think they deserve therapy. Apparently psychology was not popular at the time. America might be sort of ridiculous, but honestly, there were like therapy hotlines for readers to call after they finished the last Harry Potter book. Estha and Rahel had tragic childhoods! Where were their therapy hotlines?

I find it a bit ironic that I was just suggesting therapy for fictional characters by mentioning the fact that real people could call therapy hotlines to cope with the deaths of fictional characters (the aformentioned characters also from a fictional book). That would be like Harry Potter getting therapy to cope with Hamlet's death. Perhaps I am overthinking this. I keep forgetting that, unlike Three Cups of Tea, this didn't actually happen. I'm getting sucked into this fictional world.

This fictional world with Unnecessary Capitalized Phrases.
And sentence fragments with Unnecessary Capitalized Phrases.

Why are such random phrases capitalized? It really is unnecessary. There better be a logical pattern by the end!