Rahel senses that the Orangedrink Lemondrink man has wronged Estha and talks back to Ammu when she praises the man. After he becomes nauseated, the family leaves the movie early. Inside the theater, Estha cannot stop singing, so he is sent out into the lobby, where the Orangedrink Lemondrink man molests him. The narrative returns to Cochin, where the family goes to see The Sound of Music in the cinema. Back in the present, Rahel watches Estha undress in the moonlight, neither of them saying a word. On their way, they see their servant, Velutha, marching with a group of Communists. Next, we find the family traveling to Cochin to greet Sophie Mol and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, upon their arrival from England.
Rahel looks out on the family's former factory, Paradise Pickles & Preserves, and contemplates how all the strangeness in her family resolves around the incident of Sophie Mol's death. Both twins have traveled somewhat aimlessly until returning to their childhood home. I've killed him." Rahel and Estha have not seen each other since Estha was sent away as a child to live with Babu in Assam. On the train ride back to Ayemenem, Ammu cannot speak except to say "He's dead. The rest of the family refuses to acknowledge the twins and Ammu. Rahel believes that Sophie is awake during her funeral and buried alive. We switch to the funeral of Sophie Mol, when the twins are seven years old. The novel opens with Rahel's return to Ayemenem after hearing that her twin brother, Estha, has come home. In Roy's world, there is no definitive story, only many different stories that fuse to form a kaleidoscopic impression of events. Its epigraph is a quotation from contemporary writer John Berger: "Never again will a single story be told as though it's the only one." She uses this idea to establish her nonlinear, multi-perspective way of storytelling, which gives value to points of view as "Big" as a human being's and as "Small" as a cabbage-green butterfly's. The God of Small Things tells the story of one family in the town of Ayemenem in Kerala, India.
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