Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Chapter 6

27/9/13

Summary:

The following day, Sampath's family leaves to attend another wedding, leaving him behind to avoid any embarrassment he could cause at the party. As soon as the rest of the family leaves, Sampath runs off  away from his home, to catch a bus where he rides past the outskirts of his hazy town. When an old woman sits next to him on the bus and starts a small conversation with Sampath, he feels overwhelmed and jumps out of the bus. He races like a maniac into an old orchard, until he finds a tree that looks inviting. He climbs it and settles in. Soon, he realizes that he is surrounded by a  guava orchard, part of the university research reserve. Sampath feels completely himself and at the right place at last. He feels stripped off of stress and commotion, which is exactly what he was looking for. Sampath feels relaxed and at home and falls asleep in the branches of the tree.



Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Chapter 5

22/9/13

 

 

Summary:

 

A few months later, the entire post office was put on duty at Mr. DPS's house to help with his daughter's wedding. Marigolds and chillies were being hung on the doorway, trees were being draped with party lights, and tender goats were being fetched for the biryani. In the midst of all the chaos and madness, Sampath is assigned the job of filling glasses with sherbet. As always, Sampath gets bored with his tedious task and starts wandering around the house. He looks through doors and cupboards, and comes across a room full of finery. He could see fine peacock silk, and rosy satin and saris of every shade of color imaginable. He finds a box of jewelry and gets dazzled by the different pearls and stones and accessories it contained. He lights a candle and looks at himself at the mirror, feeling carried away. He goes out and dances up and down in front of the marriage tent. He jumps into the fountain and starts disrobing himself, as the audience shriek. His boss fires him on the spot. At home, his father is furious about the whole incidence, and wants him to find another job immediately. Sampath feels so trapped and manipulated in a life he hates. Looking at a guava his mom gives him, he longs and aches for freedom.

 

Opinion:

 

To be honest, Sampath seems like a really psychotic and unusual character. His behavior at the wedding party is something that no one would even think of doing, but for a person like Sampath, it doesn't seem too abnormal.

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Chapter 4

14/9/13

English: Literature

Sampath bicycles off to work in the morning traffic of Shahkot. Sampath drops Pinky off so she can get on the public bus. She removes her hair pin to have it as a weapon against men who might hassle her. The post office is a very gloomy building where Sampath crawls under the barbed wire fence to get in. He stops to hear the flirting between two workers in the postal office, Mr. Gupta and Miss Jyostsna, attracted by Jyostsna's red toe nails. She describes an incident that happened with the Cinema Monkey which ripped her clothes and ran off with her peanut cone. Then the two speak about the wedding of the boss' daughter, where they get interrupted by their boss. Later on, Sampath attempts to add up the wedding accounts, but all the bills look alike and his mind gets dizzy. Sampath soon starts zoning out instead of sorting of the letters which is what he's actually suppose to do. At the end of the day, Sampath is yelled at for not finishing his work. 

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Chapter 3

Reshmi

7/9/13

Summary:

Mr. Chawla starts his day out by doing morning exercises. He's forty years old and is the head clerk at the Reserve Bank of Shahkot. He yells at his family and overwhelms them with orders as he gets ready for the day. Pinky, bored from her father's newspaper readings about politics, asks him read the story about the Cinema Monkey who harrasses ladies, and steals their food outside the cinema. Later, Mr Chawla lectures Sampath on how to be a successful man. Sampath and his mother Kulfi, seem totally uninvolved while Mr. Chawla and Ammaji argue about Sampath's future. 

Opinion:

It is revealed in this chapter that Sampath is very ignorant and has very little to say. His life is exactly the opposite of what his father's ideal young man's life should be. Sampath seems to be lost in his own world, just like his mother.