In this assignment, you will be required to use the key concepts of college writing and the close
reading skills that we fine-tuned this semester to write a research paper analyzing the
significance of liminality in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. This research paper must
incorporate at least 5 scholarly sources, and you must also submit a proposal, annotated
bibliography, and formal and final draft for this assignment.
Here are some questions you might consider as your write this paper:
• How does liminality operate in this text and what does this illuminate about colonialism,
race, gender, or power?
• How does time function?
How does this shape the narrative structure of this text and why
do this place both the novel itself and the reader in a liminal space?
– What is the function of the History House? Using Said’s Orientalism as a lens, what does
the History House symbolize?
How does this connect to the end of the novel?
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Analyze the caste system as a form.
What role does this play in the novel and how does this connect to the love laws?
Why are liminal figures such a threat to these forms?
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Required Sources
• You must have at least one credible review of Roy’s novel. I suggest searching The New York Times and The Guardian for a review.
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