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Women’s College, Mannargudi — 614 016 Tamil Nadu, India Introduction: Sampath who has been all his life a great disappointment to his father, he ends up on a tree in the guava orchards he wants to escape from the stifling life shahkot. But even there he cannot escapes from life and from his people. In the same way pinky is also suffered in her life. She goes through a transformation by love, but when that love goes awry, the thoughts ingrained in her head by her father and grandmother about class and society immediately retum, Next Mr. Chawla is frustrated in the beginning of his life but finally Mr.Chawla ambition and wishes are fulfilled, and he eamed lot of money through Sampath chawla, his son. Analysis of characters Sampath Chawla Sampath Chawla is the Protagonist of the Play ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’, He was a son of Mr, Chawla and Kulfi, and he was bom in a time of drought into a family not quite like other families, in a town not quite like other towns. Sampath has a brown birthmark on his cheeks. Kulfi, Sampath Mother, thinks her baby like he came from another planet. The baby was named Sampath, Good fortune, Twenty years have passed. Sampath has grown into a thin and oversensitive young man, unable to sleep with the noisy breathing of his family around him, all sharing one ceiling fan, and father, mother, grandmother, Ammaji and sister pinky. He rushes to the roof of the house where it is just as hot, He sings and walks back and 187forth all night, wishing he had somewhere else to go; he feels suToceted in his tig ‘Sampath had been happily idle until his father found him a job at the post office, Sampath bieycles in the morning traffic of shahkot, among children, clerks, beggars, holy men, animals and cars. Pinky gets off the back of his bicycle and goes to the public bus. The post office is a gloomy building and sampath crawls under the barbed wire fence. He hears the flirting between two postal workers. Mr. Gupta and Miss Motsna. She’ describes an incident with the Cinema monkey who ripped her clothes and ran off with her peanut cone. Sampath was fascinated by her beautiful red toenails. They speak of the wedding of the daughter of their boss. When the boss, Mr, D.PS. Arrives they jump to attention sampath tries to add up the wedding accounts, but all the bills look like, and his mind gets dizzy. As soon as the boss leaves, the two clerks flirt again, and sampath begins reading the Mail. He is supposed to sort the letters, but he likes to read about the lives of the Shahkot. While the whole office staff is on duty at Mr. D.P.S. house to help with his daughter's wedding, curious, Sampath wanders into rooms of the house and looks in drawers. He is drawn by the expensive perfumes, even dressing up in wedding clothes, He looks at himself in a mirror. He feels transported. He had always been attracted to beauty and imaginative stories and thus failed his examinations and his job. He goes out and dances up and down in front of the marriage tent. His boss and crowd stare at him, but Sampath is floating in his own world, He jumps, into the fountain and disrobes, singing, as the audience shrieks, He is fired on the spot, and his father is furious, saying he will have to find another job. Sampath feels trapped i a life he hates. Looking at a guava, he wishes he could have its quiet beauty. The guava fills him with sweetness and he dreams of freedom. 188his orchard Matched Something he had. imagined all his je: mrad green-skinned globes growing sweetsour gud marvelous upon a hillside with enough tres ofl the . aye and enough ft 0 sent thea the leaves ofthese res were just 4 shade darker than the fruit and the bark was peeling ay of tan over a milky paleness so delicate and so smooth that his fingers thrilled to its touch (HITGO.P.50) ‘When his family is gone the next day, sampath runs away, catching a bus. He rides past the outskirts of town, When an old woman on the bus insists on talking to him, he jumps from the bus. The passengers see him race to an old orchard on a hill.