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)