.It’s a story about couple who doesn’t have a child and how they got treated by the society.
Before moving into the story,
Man created the society for what? To protect their family from the natural peril. The society belong to the combination of all family. Every individual has responsible to the continuity of the society..that is giving birth to children.
Suppose if you don’t have children, the society put pressure and behave in such a way for the couple to do something to have a child. The beauty was….this whole process happens in unconscious way inside the society..
Whether having children brings good or bad but if we want the society to continue, we need children and the society harass the couple to have children at any cost. Now go to the structure of the law of society. The universal law support the second marriage if the couple could not able to give birth to children..
So the character kalli and ponna was really jubilant but both are fried by the villagers and relatives for not having children…. is one way to agree Coz that’s how the society program to perform..
Here author Perumal Murugan taken the stand on the concept…How the society gives a solution to have a child through the process of cult called peria nombu.,,Now we do in the way of “TEST TUBE BABY” with donor sperms. Where during the cult all are allowed to behave like a animal in the dark to copulate and get conceived. The people who participate in the cult are treated as God..
What we learn..
The Cult was one of the important act of the society to tell the world that the society can go to any extent to protect the society..
The beauty of the theme
the society has responsibility to push every individual to qualify for the continuity of life, that’s one of the reason people assemble in marriage to wish the newly married couple. The whole process was conscious in the beginning slowly fall into the habit and
Future generation started to do by habit without asking any question. We do have experience, we do certain act without knowing why?
Coming to story, Ponna decided to take the challenge to enter Peria Nombu. The last few chapters are more sensational to read. When Ponna entered the festival she was slowly taken away by the Cult and she lose all her previous identity, a sudden experience of ecstasy in her and become part of the world. If you are a normal reader may argue so many thing that too because of the structure of the society. In General, We love new experience inspite of the Sin attached.
You get Enlightened after reading the book.