“The God of Small Things.”

The meaning of the title means the secrets, promises, sins, and feelings that are hidden under the "big things". The small things are the ones that make people happy and passionate, those achieve more recognition in the novel however, they should always be left aside since they would damage the family honorability. The author prfectly differentiates in the book those characters suchs as Kochamma and Comrade Pillai whose lives seem to have no place for "small things" and the ones such as Ammu and Velutha which lives are full of love , secrets and sin however they are happy and loved.