The extract from the story Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai talks about a freak case in which a boy named Sampath climbs runs away from home and climbs up a tree
English Commentary - Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
The extract from the story ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ by Kiran Desai talks about a freak case in which a boy named Sampath climbs runs away from home and climbs up a tree in an abandoned guava orchard and decides to stay there.
This extract is about a man named sampath who finds solace or comfort of some sort or at least seems to by living in the trees of the orchard. This is indicated in the lines “looking at her son, Kulfi felt the past came rushing back to her, engulfing her in the memory of a time when she was young, when her mind was full of dark corners, when her thoughts grew deep and underground and could not be easily uttered aloud. She remembered the light of a far star in her eyes, an unrecognizable look that made her a stranger to herself when she looked in the mirror. She remembered the desperation she had sometimes felt that rose about her as if she were being surrounded and enclosed by an enormous wall. She looked at her son sitting up in the tree and felt her emotions shift, like a vast movement of the spheres, and then she said: “let him be.”” These lines also seem to indicate that Kulfi had also once wanted this same comfort or feeling of belonging once upon a time that her son found by living in the trees.
