Chapter 10 is Rahel returning to the pickle factory. It is worn down and brings back a flashback in chapter 11.
Estha was missing from Sophie Mol's welcoming because he was inside the factory making banana jam. He was preserving his memories in the jam. He decided that he needed to "Be prepared." Soon he finds a boat that he wants to fix up. "A boat that Rahel found, Estha sat on, and Ammu would use to cross the river to love a man by night whomher children loved by day."
They take it to Velutha and start to fix it up.
From the above verse i can conclude that Ammu will be in a relationship with Velutha, she'll just have to sneak around at night.
I feel so bad for Estha. The orangedrink lemondrink man still haunts him. It takes the calm of the river to make him forget about him.
I continue to grow more and more irritated by Sophie Mol. The adults love her but she continues to be ungrateful and bratty. I guess she's been through a lot with her step dad dying... but still.
Velutha's brother is paralyzed and just lays in bed all day. I thnk about how depressing that would be. He's fairly young too. Can't someone sit him in a chair under a shady tree or somehting? Don't make him waste his life away in a dim corner.
I also think Velutha is the father figure for the twins, secretly. The rest of the family and community stil wont accept him. And it was him at the march. He was talking to his brother about it. Velutha also loves Ammu, i found that out this chapter too.
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Cross caste loves or marriages are not uncommon, but are still somewhat taboo even today in India. The older generation always has trouble with these sorts of things I guess.
Estha has been affected by his stalker, and sadly this has forced him to clam up even more. Poor kid.
Perhaps the author makes Sophie Mol unlikable, as she is (as we all know) going to die, and thus we don't feel as much sympathy?
Good observations in your postings.
Mr. Farrell
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