HULLABALOO CHAPTER 9

Summary (chapter 9)

Chapter 9 focuses more on Pinky’s character. As we know from the previous chapter that Mr Chwala is busy planning for Sampath. Mr Chawala who ordered Pinky to take the typing course completely forgot about it and now called it a ‘silly class,' showing he does not want to be bothered.

In this chapter the writer tells us how obsessed she is with looks, she would spend hours and days just thinking what she is going to wear on her next trip to the bazaar unfortunately none of her family members are capable to help her. The problem with pinky is that whenever she goes to the bazaar and when she returns home she announces to the family that she was being followed, worried Mr Chawla orders her to wear simple cotton dresses the next time she goes to the bazaar.

Ammaji needed some dentures so Ammaji and Pinky both of them went to the bazaar. Pinky tried to hide from the people in bazar by taking hidden routes because she was wearing cotton cloths, that might ruin her reputation in the market.

Ammaji decided to take Pinky to watch a movie to lighten her mood. After they finished watching the movie they went to the hungry hop ice-cream boy.  At that time pinky saw the Cinema Monkey. The Monkey was not after Ammaji who had the ice-cream come but instead after Pinky.

Ammaji dropped her cone but she did not actually intend to, unfortunately  the monkey saw that and thought that the cone was actually peanut roll. The money ran towards Ammaji. The newly bought dentures were also stuck in the ice-cream cone. Ammaji asked the hungry hop boy to help her, he was not new to this situation, to help her he ran after the monkey. When the monkey realised it was not actually peanut roll, he dropped it and the hop boy brought back Ammaji’s dentures.

This incident was embracing for Pinky. Hungry hop boy who was calm and handled the situation very well saved Pinky from too much humiliation. She felt some different feelings for him.

Pinky was very sad, those tear that she had controlled all busted out as soon as she reached home.  Ammaji and her silly denture trick also were not enough to cheer her up.

Chapter 9 can be divided like this:

1.Pinky agonises over what outfit to wear for her weekly trip to the bazaar (p.81)

2.Pinky complains to Mr Chawla that men keep following her around town (p.82)

3.Mr Chawla tells her to dress more plainly and to take Ammaji to buy new dentures (p.82-83)

4.Pinky sulks on the bus into town but Ammaji is happy and excited to be out (p.83-84)

5.Pinky and Ammaji buy dentures and visit the cinema to see an old romance movie (p.84-85)

6.Outside the cinema the monkey chases them, steals the ice cream and the dentures (p.85-86)

7.Hungry Hop boy scares the monkey away and retrieves the dentures (p.86-87)

8.Hungry Hop boy returns the dentures and flirts with Pinky, who falls in love with him (p.87-88)

9.Pinky & Ammaji return to the orchard. Pinky sulks and Ammaji tries to cheer her up (p.88-89)

HULLABALOO CHAPTER 8

Summary (chapter 8)

In chapter 8 Mr Chawla relises something, that Sampath’s unfathomable wisdom can be use to generate some money into the house. Mr Chawla who actually knows that Sampath is not super intelligent and magical person but just a lazy boy. Mr Chawla was busy planning things he can do with the help of Sampath, he did reveal out anything and is waiting for the right time to seize the opportunity.

Since Sampath’s popularity grew and people started camping in the orchard. It was time to make Sampath look more like a professional at what he does, as more and more devotees gather. So the family decided to provided him with a cot, an umbrella to protect him from sun and rain and a quilt, woolen hat kitted by Ammaji. That was not the end, the family also took special care about their hygiene after all they had some respect for their level cleanliness in the society. With the help of ropes and buckets, this pulley system was designed by Mr Chalwla. The family was successfully able to provide Sampath with a bath.

They also had to take care of Sampath’s health so they attached another carte to the pulley system and send it to Samapth. It was so amazing see the dramatic change, few days back he was nobody, no one cared for him and now he was like a king giving orders to his family. Sitting high up in the tree, he was happy and satisfied.

The first once to come to visit Samapath was Mr Gupta and Ms Joytsana. They were the once who criticised Samapth for his bad behaviour at the marriage and here they were taking his advice. Mr Gupta likes teasing Miss Jyotsana. Samapath reminds Jyotsana that she had to repay 152 rupees. This shocked everyone especially Ms Joytsana who never wanted to reveal this secret. Again this was not any sort of wisdom at all, credit it all to post office were Sampath secretly sneaked into Miss Jyotsana's bag.

It seemed as if the respect for him grew even more, more people started to ask him all sorts of questions. All Sampath’s answers were somewhat related to food, animals and nature. For people it did not matter if the answer make sense or not and most of the time it was the people who asked the questions the once to answer it themselves.

Kulfi’s inspiration grew from the things that Samapath spoke, and she started to cook for Sampath, her passion for cooking and food was so huge that ingredients in a regular kitchen and ingredients on the bazaar shelves could not satisfy her. She was usually upset by the fact that her neighbors always interrupted her cooking by advising her how to cook. She hated that. She gives Sampath what she cooked but was still not satisfied with the outcome. Then she would only cook again when she would be inspired.

Even Kulfi like Sampath achieved a level of peace and space in the orchard. Kulfi knew her son very well. She knew everything that he was going trough. Her son gave her a sense of peace, she loved him and she cooked for him and only him. Pinky, on the other hand had no deep connections with her mother, but the father and daughter relationship seem to go quite well.

Chapter 8 can be divided like this:

1.Mr Chawla realises how Sampath being in the tree can benefit the family (p.68)

2.The Chawla family make changes to Sampath’s living arrangement (p.69-70)

3.The Chawlas make arrangements for Sampath’s washing, meals and toilet. (p.71-72)

4.Sampath starts giving advice to the people visiting his tree (p.73-76)

5.Desai shows Kulfi’s thoughts and feelings about cooking for Sampath (p.76-79)

HULLABALOO CHAPTER 7

Summary (chapter 7)

When the family came back they realised that Sampath was missing from the house. They went to the local police station to report for missing Sampath but lazy Shahkotians were unanle to find Sampath.

At last the watchman of University Research Forest saw a man on top of a near by tree that’s how the news spread. Mr. Chawla could predict who that might be it might be, none other than his own son Sampath.

Sampath was not very pleased to find them there he wanted them to shoo away and ask them why they were here but he could not. After all, he did not want to hurt their feelings.

Mr Chawla and Pinky who were more worried about their reputation in town tried to force Sampath down the tree but Ammaji on the other hand was worried about Sampath's health and pleaded him to come down. Surprisingly Kulfi his mother, who he loved most was quiet.

Kulfi remembers her dark past and that feeling of being enclosed by walls. So Kulfi decides to let Sampath stay where he was because she knew exactly what he was feeling and knew that he also wanted his own freedom.

The family started to look for solutions the family went to Dr Banerjee for help, Tibetan doctor, homeopathic medicines and finally the holy man. The solution the man gave was most trusted by the family. A marriage.

Even Kulfi was married  to Mr Chawla for the same reason. Kulfi always acted weird like sleep walking and also her strange obsessions with food seem to grow since her late teens. Kulfi's family feared that the rumor of her wired attitude will spread around the town. So before it does they got her married to Mr Chawla.

The writer describes that a typical Indian women should be perfect from head to toe but if she is not then dowry need to be given to the man's family. Kulfi's family had given dowry to Mr Chawla's family which made Ammaji greedy. Mr Chawla knew that this family was slightly insane but telling this to Ammaji was of no use.

The family had found a girl for Sampath not as perfect as every one wanted but they were satisfied to have at least found a girl. Sampath would not come down so the girl had to climb up to meet her future husband. Unfortunately she fell and sneezed, these two incidences combined were enough to make people talk about this relationship and call it 'not auspicious.' This solution did not really work out. 

After all that chaos Sampath started to think again all about the school and post office. In the crowd below him he saw Mr Singh, Mr Chopra and Ratan Sinha he remembered what he had read from the letters and attacked them with a few embarrassing questions. All of them were shocked to hear what Sampath told them.

People thought he was some sort of magical spirit who knew what was going on in their lives. Smapath was now on newspapers all around Shahkot. Sampath was popular. This certainly shows the attitude of the Shahkotian and how they believe more in orthodox then in real life facts.

Chapter 7 is long and can be divided into 5 sections, like this:

1. The Chawlas look for help getting Sampath down out of the tree.  They go to the police, a doctor, some alternative healers and, finally, a holy man. (pages 52-57)

2. The author describes the process of making a traditional arranged marriage in India and describes favoured characteristics in a wife among familes. (pages 57-59)

3. The Chawlas attempt to get Sampath out of the tree by forcing him to meet an arranged wife, who they send up into the tree after him. (pages 59-62)

4. Mr Chawla remembers the conditions of his own arranged marriage to Kulfi (pages 62-65)

5. Sampath gets the attention of some nearby locals and devotees (pages 65-67).