The God of Small Things Chapter 15 Summary

The Crossing

• It's after midnight and it's raining.
• A young man sits at the top of a staircase leading to the river.
• He strips down and swims across the river to the middle, where the current is swift.
• He gets to the other side.
• He thinks things will get worse and then better. Then he walks towards the Heart of Darkness.
• The narrator describes him as "The God of Loss. The God of Small Things. Naked but for his nail varnish" (15.8-10). So we know this man is Velutha.