Response to Colour play in Arundhati Roys the God of Small Things The novel God of Small Things can

impose different feelings and emotions during different events and circumstances in the story line. This article did a great job of showing how Roy used color to convey the emotion of the characters and mood of the story. Color was mentioned many times throughout the book; blue was mentioned 96 times, red 113 times, yellow 72 times, and green 59 times. The article revealed how colors affect human physiology and thoughts by evoking emotions. This article revealed how Roy used colors such as red, blue, yellow, and green to evoke certain emotions in the reader during certain events in the story. The article described how Ammu, Rahel, and Estha represented rebellion and change. Roy used red flags as the predominant insignia 7 times throughout the book. I would agree with this relationship because typically red is a color of up rise or revolution, or civil un-rest. These children were being pulled back and fourth, the Mammachis red peppers represent the first rebellion against Pappachis skyblue rule. Roy mentions Pappachis skyblue Plymouth which he had bought from an Englishman. No one was allowed to sit in it because he called it his revenge. This was representational of the struggle that Ammu, Rahel, Estha, and even Mammachi were attempting to rebel against. The article then describes how blue is representational of enclosure or occupation and the red was rebellion and change. I completely agree with this analysis because it makes the reader feel a feeling of occupation or enclosure through the color blue and with the skyblue rule, then the

red flags give a sense of up rise and rebellion. The article also relates blue to sadness and depression with the use of barred blue when describing Ammu sleeping as well as the window. I believe that this signified being trapped. The article also reveals the use of yellow in Rahels yellow-rimmed red plastic sunglasses [which] made the world look red. The yellow signified joy or happiness on the outside but the sight or feeling of red rebellion on the inside. I can understand what the article was describing. However I struggled to see the happiness expressed through the yellow, because I did not see it present in the story. All in all I believe that the article revealed a key aspect of the story that may have been overlooked. The colors played a large role in expressing a certain feeling or emotion to the reader. Mostly red and blue; blue representing the occupation or enclosure, while red expressed feelings of revolution or change, especially within Ammu, Rahel, and Estha. They rebelled against the skyblue rule. This article included many sources and instances that were significant in the meaning of the colors, such as the red flag and skyblue rule. The article made a very interesting and persuasive claim that colors indeed were used by Roy to convey certain feelings or emotions in the reader.