1. Vincent Adrian
Grade 11
Hullabaloo
All people are unique. However, many want to be like others. Therefore,
they conform to their society and hide their uniqueness. This idea can be seen in
Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Two significant moments in the
novel that show that Sampath is not an ordinary person is when he opens the
letters in the post office and when he climbs the guava tree. This is important
because Desai teaches that conforming does not always make people happy.
One significant moment in the novel that show that Sampath is not an
ordinary person is when he reads the post cards and letters. The First action that
he did is when he examined the post cards and letters that had just been brought
fron Delhi. Then he turned them over, smelled them, looked at the stamps,
studied the names. we can see that this is the first time Sampath examined and
open the post card,why does Sampath open the post cards and letters ? he does
that because when “he held them up against the light, the envelopes filled with
promise, with the possibility of different worlds”.From the Desai writing ”he had
read of family feuds and love affairs, of marriages, of babies being born, of people
dying and of ghosts returning, of farewells and home commings”. And the second
one is “He had read of natural disasters, floods and earthquakes, of small trivial
matters like the lack of shampoo”. After he read all of the post cards and letters “
Sampath would imagine the cold and the clean so vividly, every hair on him
would stand on end” , what makes Sampath become unique is that when he
remembered all of the post cards and letters.
One significant moments in the novel that show that Sampath is not an
ordinary person is that when he climbed the Guava tree and decided to live
there. Happened when he grabbed a Guava fruit, then suddenly the Guava fruit
exploded and that accident makes Sampath shocked and walked away from his
home and suddenly he found a Guava tree and climbed the guava tree. From the
Desai writing, “Sampath felt his breathing slow and a wave of piece and

2. contentment overtook him… oh if he could exchange his life for this luxury of
stillness, to be able to stay with his face held towards the after like a sunflower
and to learn all there was to know in this orchard… Yes he was in the right place
at last . Tiredness rolled over him like a wave and closing his eyes, and , he fell
into a deep slumber, lodged in a fork in a guava tree”. That was happened when
Sampath climbed the Guava tree. Sampath wants to climbed the guava tree
because “Sampath felt the marvelous emotion that had overtaken him begin to
sag”. Then after he felt that, he began to find the tree and climbed the tree, after
he climbed the tree he decided to live there. Sampath wants to lived there
because when Sampath was in his house, he felt that he was in caged, but after he
climbed the tree, he felt the feelings of freedom and that is why he decided to
lived there.
I think that Sampath is quite unique, because we can know all of Sampath
Motive, which is freedom. First when he was working with the post office, he
opened the letter and also the post cards to read people messages and problem.
He did that because When Sampath read all of the post cards and the letters, he
began to think that he can explore to another city aside from Shahkot, because
the letter and post cards are from another city. Second when he climbed the
guava tree and decided to lived there. When he saw the guava tree, he begins the
felt the marvelous feelings, so that he decided to climb the tree. Then after he
climb the tree, he can feel the freedom. Because the Guava tree is the center of
the Shahkot city, he can see a lot of buildings. That is why he decided to live in
the tree because he can feel the freedom while staying in the tree. That is why
Sampath became unique.
Based on the Society, if it is from the original life, being unique is not too
bad, because it is some kind of specialty that God has give that to us and people
will be impressed of our uniqueness.But If we use our uniqueness for something
that is not good, than other people will considered us as a bad person or crazy.
From the novel that Kiran Desai has made is that Sampath is unique and the
special part of Sampath when he was considered as a crazy man and everyone
don’t like him, then when he climbed the guava tree and talked about something

3. in the post cards and letters that he had read, everyone started to think that he is
not a crazy man, but he is special. But in reality If there are some people who
have the personality like Sampath will be considered as a crazy man, and the
police officer will arrest that person when he climbed a tree and talked about
someone’s privacy in the middle of the town.