Religion
plays an important, if tangential, role in the novel . There are a great
many religious undertones and references, and there are prominent actions that are caused by
religious involvement. One of the first events that happens in the novel is when Baby Kochamma
falls in love with Father Mulligan, a Catholic Irish priest, and she joins a convent hoping to
get closer to him. When this fails, her life is turned upside down. She leaves for America,
where she grows into a bitter old woman.
Later in the novel, after Ammu's
affair with lower-caste Velutha is discovered,...
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