Capitalization - TGOST

Arundhati Roy uses plenty of stylistic techniques like nature imagery, italics, anaphora, onomatopeia, (to name a few) which all help her storytelling to be present and flowing. However, Roy also includes some capitalization of words in odd places, so odd, that it almost seems random. This technique does not help the story flow, but rather causes the reader to pause at the word and wonder, "Is that important?" Obviously, this type of capitalization cannot be seen in most works of literature, though Emily Dickinson seems to be no stranger to this technique in her poetry. When Emily Dickinson capitalized words in the middle of sentences it was to draw attention to them in order to highlight a certain symbol or theme. Roy does this as well, but since her literature is in a form of a novel, she includes foreshadowing as well. For example, Roy capitalized the words, "Good Sign" and "Man" in chapter four. Although I have not been able to verify the foreshadowing yet, those words seem to be setting up a romance that I am looking forward to reading about.