The Treatment Of The Caste System In Karukku

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Karukku is a novel that principal focus was the treatment that one community received on India due the caste system. The focus was the author Bama experience since she was a child into adult life the many experiences good and bad. The atrocity that mold her way of seeing the world around her the spiritual and the physical word with the focus on the society. The spiritual was her understand of Christianity, birth and death first as child them as adult and the physical the details and description of the places and people. Bama lived in a small village that was surround by mountains like Marakka puuchi, Perumaara and the Naickers fiels, rivers and lakes. All elders knew that Marakka pucchi had that name because looked like a heap of paddy, Perumaara …show more content…

The only advice that she get was too focus on her study that this would give her prestige and respect into every caste. She saw and her first hand the way that her elder brother was treated in library, street and bus. This encounter made her focus in work toward the first spot on her of the students in her school. The disrespect toward the lower caste was felted even in the school that was locate in the same street as the church that was construct by the priests that was administrate with the help of nuns and teachers. Every bad things that happen on school the lower caste were accused and punished. All works in school was made by the lower caste like cleaning and taking water for the teachers and plants on school. When had to burry someone just the Paraya touch the body because them supposedly were polluted and such dirty activity should be done by lower caste the full process of dig, bury and sing chats on the …show more content…

She then fully understand that such decision of becoming nuns had same cons like the blind devotion of the superior, lack of humanity in their piety (karukku 108), that the vows that her had learned and prepared follow for the rest of the life were not put in practice at all (Karukku 114), they just respect the spiritual rituals of praying, kneel and others. When her finished the reading of all Bible she sully understand the way that God work and lived his life toward the people that had less between other the compassion for the oppressed( Karukku 104), the love, kindness, blessings and knowledge that he spread in the world everywhere and every time that gave her a new goal in life. The reading of this sacred book was the final piece of her long journey of discovery and understand the people, community and country that her the Parayas. Bama started advocated, explain and created a movement that have as function protest the caste system, change the vision of parayas transform them into Dalits like her on a search of better condition of life, self respect, justice, freedom, love, equality, treatment and same opportunity on the

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