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Mr. Chawla
Pinky is Sampath’s teenage sister, and the daughter of Mr. Chawla and Kulfi. She’s a willful, headstrong, dramatic, and romantic young woman who’s determined to make something of her life despite her circumstances. She enjoys dressing in extravagant and eye-catching outfits, but she’s also obsessed with the idea that men in town might be watching her or following her. She has a violent streak as well, unafraid to jab a man with a hairpin when she feels disrespected. While she doesn’t directly interact with Sampath too often, her subplot involves an unusual romance between her and the “Hungry Hop boy,” a young man working at an ice cream van in town. Her affection, anger, and sadness over the Hungry Hop boy might be wildly variable and melodramatic, but her emotions are understandable for a restless teenager in her position. As her brother Sampath garners everyone’s attention, Pinky’s struggle to remain relevant and have a life of her own is compelling, even as her antics become increasingly ridiculous.
Pinky Quotes in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
The Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard quotes below are all either spoken by Pinky or refer to Pinky. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12
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No doubt, weighed by the same concern with fragility, inevitability and doom, Sampath had been driven up into the branches, away from this painful world. She remembered his face as he was going to school, how he would always try to climb up on to the roof to be alone when he came home, and she felt terrible about how she had harangued him, shouting up the stairs… Now, she felt, she too understood the dreadfulness of life, recognized the need to be by herself with sadness…
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Pinky Quotes in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
The Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard quotes below are all either spoken by Pinky or refer to Pinky. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 12
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No doubt, weighed by the same concern with fragility, inevitability and doom, Sampath had been driven up into the branches, away from this painful world. She remembered his face as he was going to school, how he would always try to climb up on to the roof to be alone when he came home, and she felt terrible about how she had harangued him, shouting up the stairs… Now, she felt, she too understood the dreadfulness of life, recognized the need to be by herself with sadness…
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