Filling the Void: Oppression in Funny Boy

The boundary between social contrast and gender created suppression and injustice in the role of interesting boy who is Siam Cell Badrai. This unfairness affects the restlessness and behavior of the characters in the novel, and it runs through every aspect of the funny boy. There was suppression in the Chelvaratnam family, they were dissatisfied with Arjie's "tendency", and he might grow to "fun". Ethnic riot also occurred in the Sri Lankan society by crackdown between Sinhalese and Tamils.

Among his large families, wealthy Tamils ​​live in Colombo, "eccentric boy" who likes to dress up as an eccentric, girl and play cricket with his brother. In FUNNY BOY, we have both our own sexual desire and the racial discrimination of the community in which he lives, so we follow family lives through the eyes of Arjie. Northern part of Sri Lanka ... more

Shyam Selvadurai 's novel "Funny Boy" shows the growth of Sri Lankan young people, homosexuals, Tamil boys Arjie. This novel is exploring the barriers surrounding love, marriage, gender expectations and cultural tension in the context of Sri Lankan social and cultural politics in the population of Sinhalese and Tamils ​​in the 1980s. The tension and change in Sri Lanka in the Black July case in the 1980s was similar to the development of homosexual identity by Aja himself

Despite the clear aspect of historical overview, funny boy believe that Sri Lanka's community conflict is not obvious, and many Sinhalese and Tamil Sri Lankans are neighbors and friends. Likewise, Dennis Austin observed that in his political appearance of modern Sri Lanka all history is made up of history, but the history of Sri Lanka is more mature than most people (61). Selvadurai used the historical alienation of minority Tamils ​​in Sri Lanka as an analogy of the status as homosexual young homosexuals. Today also continues during this time, homosexuality in Sri Lanka is illegal. When Ajie understood and explored homosexuality in the context of Black July, he seemed to be comforted when he was preparing for immigration to Canada. Legal protection was provided to LGBTQ in the 1980s. personal

A strange boy is a story about a 7 year old boy, Arjun (Arjie) who experienced the ups and downs associated with a person's sexual desire, as well as a cruel reality of the real world. From the Arjie point of view, Funny Boy is not just a contraindication topic on homosexuality in homosexual society, it also shows how political and regional conflicts affect people's lives. Arjie's homosexuality and the way he understands and treats it are some important themes in the story, but the political conflict between Arjie and his family's Sri Lanka also tells the story It plays a very important role in shaping. Important role. Since Arjie comes from a family of Tamils ​​and Sinhalese, and the narrator is Arjie himself, there is a personal view on these conflicts that will affect innocent people who entered the cross fire.