• N.Gayathri

This paper an attempt to emphasize that this pervasive violence in turn creates more violence, as people seek revenge for the harm done to them and gradually lose a sense of their own humanity, including any hope that the violence might eventually subside. The frequency of deaths and the title A Brief History of Seven Killings further emphasize the seemingly all-consuming power of violence. Violence leads to death, and when certain perpetrators of violence are killed, new perpetrators simply rise up to take their place. While much of the violence depicted in the novel centers around the gang members in the Kingston ghetto beating, torturing, raping, and murdering others, not all of the novel’s violence plays out on an interpersonal level.

violence, death

"A thematic study on violence, peace in the novels of Matron James in A brief history of seven killings", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.266-270, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902933.pdf

"A thematic study on violence, peace in the novels of Matron James in A brief history of seven killings", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp266-270, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902933.pdf