Theme Of Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard
INDIAN SENSE OF RELIGIOSITY IN THE NOVEL THE HULLABALOO IN
THE GUAVA ORCHARD
T.V.N Swathi Research Scholar Department of English Acharya Nagarjuna University
Guntur
[email protected] Winner of the Booker prize 2006, Kiran Desai was
born in India in 1971. Daughter of an eminent Indian English author Anita Desai, she
has carved out a name for herself as a novelist by writing just two novels, Hullabaloo
in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss. Hullabaloo in the Guava
Orchard is in the form of a fable and told with understanding and tenderness. She
made her debut with the tale of a shiftless son of middle class Indian parents who
climbs a tree and begins to be treated as a guru. Other related incidents create an
inextricable web the growth and popularity of the Monkey Baba, the attempts of Mr.
Chawla and his family, the arrival of the band of monkeys, the efforts of the entire
administration of Shahkot etc. While Anita Desai dwells deep in ... Show more
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For him it is a never ending flow of misery, a prison. The only time he had a little
bit of fun, he was curtailed and punished. He feels the neighborhood houses rise
like a trap, a maze of staircases. He feels bitter at heart, and thinks his surroundings
are detrimental to his mental health. He doesn t want another job but open spaces
and peace of mind. He can live this life of complete freedom only by escaping from
the humdrum of family life. To seek that he really runs away from the home. As
soon as he escapes in bus, he thinks as if he got new life like snakes that get new
life after they leave the withered rags of their old skins behind and disappear into
grass. He thought of how he was leaving the world, a world that made its endless
revolutions towards nothing. Now it did not matter any more. His heart was caught
in a thrall of joy and fear. Somehow, somewhere, he had found a crack.