analyze the character of Ammu. She is characterized as tough, brave, motherly, strict and hardworking.
1. Tough
In the novel, the character of Ammu is often described as tough. She is tough because of the tragedy of her life and the treatment from the society she has
experienced. Society injustice makes her tougher toward her society. As a widow she gets a bad treatment from the society. When she confesses
about her relationship with Velutha, an untouchable man, the police do something embarrassing to Ammu. The reaction of Ammu shows that she is a tough woman.
When they left the police station Ammu was crying, so Estha and Rahel didn’t ask her what veshya meant. Or for that matter, illegitimate. It was
the first time they’d seen their mother cry. She wasn’t sobbing. Her face was set like a stone, but the tears welled up in her eyes and ran down her
rigid cheeks Roy 8. Her reaction towards the society after her homecoming also shows that
she is a tough woman. The society gives her a phony of sympathy, but after that she realizes the society’s has misjudged her divorce. “If only she can, she will do
something to all the ugly symphaty face so that they will not despise her anymore Roy 43”.
Ammu’s past experiences make her become a tough woman. When she is a girl, her father used to abuse her and her mother. Her father is a very cold
person. Whatever he wants, the whole family should obey it. The experience of her childhood remains in Ammu’s life.
As she grew older, Ammu learned to live with this cold, calculating cruelty. She developed a lofty sense of injustice and the mulish, reckless
streak that develops in Someone Small who has been bullied all their lives by Someone Big. She did exactly nothing to avoid quarrels and
confrontations Roy 181-182
Through her reaction and past life experience, the character of Ammu is tough. Her father’s treatments and the society’s treatment make her tough. She is
considered strange by the society because she is a widow.
2. Brave
Ammu is a young mother who is really brave in facing her life. Since she is young, she dares to take the risk in her life. In her eighteen, when she waits for
a proposal, she dares to marry a Bengali man. Marrying a Bengali man means that Ammu breaks the society rule Roy 40. Intercommunity marriage is forbidden in
caste system. It is considered as breaking the rule that has already rooted in India’s daily life.
Ammu didn’t pretend to be in love with him. She just weighed the odds and accepted. She thought that anything, anyone at all, would be better
than returning to AyemenemRoy 39.
As a woman she dares to confront the things she does not like from her husband. It shows from the direct comment from the author. It is described in the
novel that Ammu dares to say something about her husband’s habit. Her deed is against the caste system because in a caste system, a woman should obey her
husband. In a conversation with friend he would talk about how much he loved
smoked salmon when Ammu knew hated it. Or he would come home from the club and tell Ammu that he saw Meet Me In St Louis when they’d
actually screened The Bronze Buckaroo. When she confronted him about these things, he never explained or apologized. He just giggled,
exasperating Ammu to a degree she never thought herself capable of Roy 40
A few years after she breaks the rule by marrying a Bengali man, she decides to divorce her husband. She leaves her husband because she thinks that
her husband gives nothing to her. Her husband does not give a decent living to her except getting drunk and drunk. Her mannerism shows her bravery towards her
husband and towards the society Roy 42. From her speech, Ammu looks brave in telling something to the other.
When she argues with Chako-her brother, as a woman she dares to say something awkward. She says what she wants to say.
‘Oh, all the time’ Ammu said, and it came out a little louder than the sarcastic mumble that she had intended. ‘That’s how we make babies.’
Chacko didn’t slap her. So she didn’t slap him back.
But the Waiting Air grew Angry. “I think you owe my wife an apology, Ammu,’ Chacko said, with a
protective, proprietorial air, hoping that Margaret Kochama wouldn’t say, ‘Ex-wife, Chacko’ and wag a rose at him Roy 179
She is brave to break the rule by loving an untouchable Roy 31. Ammu and her children become the worst transgressor. Ammu breaks the rule by loving a
paravan an untouchable man. The caste system already arranges the women who deserve their love and who do not. In fact, Ammu breaks it. She loves Velutha –
an untouchable. She breaks the rule made by her ancestors Roy 31. Since Ammu breaks the rule, the situation in Ayemenem becomes worse
than before. She makes a “terror” to the whole family in Ayemenem. They call it as terror, because if others know what has happened in Ammu’s family, the
society will punish them. Ammu makes a big fault one night with Velutha. They PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
make love in a riverbank. They think that no one will know it. Actually, there is someone who watches them, the one who will make the “terror” more terrible
later on. Ammu and Velutha follow their desire. They follow their biological needs. In fact, they are forbidden to touch each other because they come from
different castes Roy 334-337. The “terror” sharpens the conflict in Ayemenem’s family. This “terror”
also makes Ammu braver than before. Her bravery also can be seen after it. She goes to the police and tells the truth to them. She dares to do it. Although Baby
Kochama, her aunt, already makes a wrong confession to the police, Ammu is brave enough to tell the truth to the police about her affair, the affair with an
untouchable named Velutha Roy 7. She also teaches her children to be brave. Ammu says it to Estha when
Sophie Mol-Chako’s daughter comes. Ammu is angry with Estha when Estha refuses to greet Sophie Mol in a good way. Ammu asks Estha to repeat it once
again. She teaches her children to be brave with whatever they have done. As long as they do the right thing, they should be brave.
Estha looked at Ammu. Ammu looked said, Never Mind As Long As You’ve Done The Right Thing
Roy 150.
Through her mannerism, speech and character as seen by another, it is clear that Ammu is a brave person. She is brave to say what she wants to say and
do. As long as she does the right thing, she will keep doing it. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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