“Funny Boy”
My journey of reading classics is not very far- fetched but the ones I chose were brilliant. #told*, chose shows my superiority.
Funny Boy was the first classic fiction I read and it was sometime a year back but the kind of impact it had on me is ever lasting.
Sometimes I wonder why I have this absurd attachment with this novel and my sub conscious mind has several answers for it, for instance, may be because it was my first one or may be because it wears a silhouette of timelessness.
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Funny Boy is an award winning male gay-fiction by the renowned Sri Lankan author Shyam Selvadurai. It comprises of six poignant chapters dealing with biases, homosexuality orthodoxies and Tamil-Sinhala riots. The best part, from my vantage point, though every chapter has an open end but the entire novel is complete in itself.
It brings out the honest and sincere voices from the other side of the society. The ubiquitous theme of the novel is the inculcation of the disparity between the dominant castes (Sinhala) and the submissive caste (Tamils). These caste variances lead to a woebegone incident near the end of the novel, when the protagonist Arjie’s grandparents became the victim of their wrath. #yes, I sometimes read serious stuff.
This book is not only a fiction but rather a way to educate people to combat against the discrimination of assaulting people on the basis of their sexuality and how a young boy discovering his homosexuality. #if I would have been in his place I couldn’t be too courageous to accept it.
It has a heartwarming story whose intensity can make you cry, the whimsical comments can make you chuckle and most importantly it drives you to-Think. #think!!
If anyone, any anyone wants to begin with a reading habit #classics, which only uses the Shakespearean words must inaugurate with this because Selvadurai uses the easiest and understandable language. You people are gonna love it 1000000000000/10%. Just go around it!
