Study Guide For Summer Reading Title: The God of Small Things Name of Protagonist: Esthappen (Estha) and Rahel A. Exposition:. It is a story of two twins as they live in an environment corrupted by the adult society. Set during the time when Communism was being noticed as a effective form of government and the ancient land was disrupted by the foreign ideas from European colonization. B. Setting: Set in India, in a small town in ... parents, former wife of Chacko, then of Joe, mother of Sophie Mol. Mammachi (Shoshamma Ipe): blind grandmother of the twins and Sophie Mol, founder of the family ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... originated among a small group of intellectuals who were reacting against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing instead their own faith centering on the divinity of man and nature. Transcendentalism derived some of its idealistic concepts from romantic German philosophy notably that of Immanuel Kant, and ... , history and ultimately, the cosmos itself. It is not a rejection of the existance of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual; - the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate