Childhood’s Own World in The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy’s first novel The God of Small Things takes place in a very unstable environment. All the events combine and explode in one tragic day, a day of persecution and loss that is fated to last a lifetime: families that broke apart, people who goes, who dies, love lost and childhood destroyed. Rahel and Estha, “two-egged twins” suffer the punishment of a world to whom they don’t belong, the world of adults. They fight to achieve the unconditional love of a parent and a safe environment. The world built on childhood is a world built on LOVE. They can love as more than any adult because