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Sampath's birth
Sampath's birth brought the monsoon after a long period of drought, and also the Red Cross supplies dropped boxes of food just next to the Chawlas' home. His name meant "Good fortune" -
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Sampath can't sleep
As Sampath family is wasn't so rich, he and his family slept on one room. One night Sampath couldn't sleep because of the snorings of the other members of the family. -
Kulfi worried about Sampath
She was woried because she saw his face an realize he didn't sleep at al.. -
Sampath goes to the roof
Because he was so unconfortable he went up to the roof guessing that it was going to be better, but he was wrong, so the morning came and Sampath was awake allready because he didn't sleep. -
Mr. Chawla angry
He started shouting to his family because he was the only one who worked on his family, He worked at the Reserve Bank in Shakhot -
Fights
Punky, Kulfi and Mr. Chawla started arguing because of Sampath feature with the work. -
Work
People at Africa don't work, so when the boss arrives they realized he has come and go to work. -
Mr. D.P.S daugther's weddin
He became drunk on the various scents. He looked at himself in a mirror, he became crazy and he went out and danced up and down in front of the married couple. Then he jumped into the fountain, singing like a crazy man. -
Sampath getting fired
He is fired because of the crazyness he had on his daugther boss wedding, and Mr Chawla goes crazy and furious. Telling him he his irresponsable and he has to get another job. -
Tasting the Guava
Sampath feels bad, mad at his life. Kulfi gives him a guava to taste, looking at the guava, he wishes he could have its quiet that was beautiful. He didn't need any more than just the guava, it gave him happines, sweetness and most of all freedom. -
Letters of the post office
Sampath started reading the letters of people who sent the to the post office, -
Pinky's bus trip
As pinky couldn't travell in bycicle with her brother Sampath, she got on the bus and as she was scared that someone behave bad towards her, she grab a pin hair and if someone did something that she didn't like she would stuck the pin hair to him/her,
A man winked Pinky so she got furious and finally stuck the pin hair to the man. -
Sampath runs away
When his family is gone the next day, Sampath runs away, catching a bus. He goes far away, and he sees a Guava tree and goes off the bus. -
Guava Tree
He climbs the tree and he settles in. Sampath feels peaceful. Life is sweet and uncomplicated. He feels at home and falls asleep in the branches. -
Sampath was founded
They find Sampath in the tree, eating a guava. Sampath thinks of excuses, but in the end says nothing. His mother alone seems to understand why he is in the tree -
Calling Doctor Banerjee
The family calls in Dr. Banerjee from the bazaar clinic, who tries to get Sampath to come down, but Sampath is afraid of being locked up for being insane. Sampath started talking about his need of getting married. -
Sampath's "ideal girl" arrives to the Guava Tree
The bride, her family, and the pilgrims arrive at the tree. While Sampath has romantic fantasies about beautiful women, he is horrified by the ugly girl. When she tries to touch Sampath's feet he yells, and she falls out of the tree. -
Searching for Sampath
The Chawla family go to the police to search for their son, and the whole town makes the most of the drama. The watchman of the university forest reserve bicycles into Shahkot and announces there is a man in a guava tree who won't come down. Mr. Chawla feels sure it is Sampath, and the family catches the bus and gets off at the old orchard -
Sampath "powers"
As Sampath lie to people with their secrets by reading the letters, as he knows everything people thought that he might have divine powers. Soon a newspaper article proclaims him to be a holy man in a tree. -
The rich family
As sampath lied to people, Mr. Chawla thought that by his lies the family might be rich by paying Sampath for telling people their future by thing that he knew. Sampath enjoys his new position of power, and is in great humor. When he is tired of the questions, he finished his day and goes to sleep. -
Kulfi's food
Kulfi, totally inspired by her son, begins cooking masterpieces in the orchard in her outdoor kitchen. She too likes the freedom of being in the forest. Sampath grows fat, excited by the exotic food cooked only for him. -
Mr. Chawla ending his job
Mr. Chawla is on leave from his regular job and has plans of getting rich managing the pilgrim trade to his son's tree -
Pinky and Ammaji's trip
On a trip to town to buy Ammaji new dentures, a monkey attacked Ammaji after buying ice cream after seeing a movie. When Ammaji takes a bite of ice cream, her dentures stick in the cone, the cone drops, and the monkey runs off with it. -
Sampath answers
Sampath is charmed by the visitors who ask him questions on the nature of life. But some of Sampath's answers make sense and some didin't , but they have the ring of truth, so people were satisfied. -
Sampath being drugged.
One is a spy from the Atheist Society and Branch to Uncover Fraudulent Holy Men (BUFHM). The spy wonders how he can fool the people. He plans his investigation into Sampath's life, and he realices that Sampath may be drugged -
Kulfi's nutrition to Sampath
Kulfi gave Sampath a special nutrition that involved Pheasants and other wildfowl. -
Sampath reputation
With his hermit-like, Sampath popularity became bigger and grew. -
The Monkey's appears
Pinky started yelling because she saw the monkey that was following her in the bazaar. But after a while a bunch of mokeys started to appear, and kept following her beside her imagination -
Sampath being "threat"
The cinema monkey started to get full of habitants of Shakhot doing visits because of Sampath visits there too.
When the monkeys arrived at the Cinema started looking at Sampath, but when they got distracted Sampath started to provoke them and starting calling them, and he push them. By this action he realize that the monkeys were not a threat. -
Miss Jyotsna Charmed
Miss Jyotsna started to get charmed by the monkeys. She started to describe them as she loved them by saying things like "Think of all those shams" and "all those crooks posing in their saffron" -
Mr. Chawla knowing the truth
There was a tiny discussion because of the reactions that the monkeys had, some of them thought that they were strange because of the full moon. But when Mr. Chawla saw the Bottle of ram it all made sense for him -
Monkeys in love with alcohol
They felt a fantastic sensation with this. The alcohol made them get crazy. They were totally obssesed.
The bananas and peanuts didn't mean nothing to them now.
With time, they started to drink other things, like beer or whisky.
They were obssesed, searching and searching for more alcohol everywere. -
Monkeys
After a month of their appearence in the orchard, the monkeys started to drink five bottles of rum by rifling a man's bag. The monkeys and Sampath led to have a "siesta" on Sampath's tree. Sampath started to make shapes of spiders, and he started to remember how he used to hate them in his life in Shakhot -
Disruption
Mr. Chawla thought that the monkeys being on Sampath's tree was a risk of disruption. -
Mr. Chawla angry
He started to get angry because, he thougth that the monkeys were taking over his tree and "work". He thought his son had to learn more things, and not be all day making up stories to tell people -
Sampath poem
He was inspired by Brother John, who once Sampath remembered him as a being filled with beauty who had imparted to him his single inspired moment at school.
He once told him " Is born of hardship and suffering, of pain and doubt " -
The monkeys realize their mistakes.
They started demostrating that what they did with the alcohol and being drunked, they basicly changed their common life.
But this started to change, and the monkeys stopped people to steal their bottles of ram or toddy, -
The Brigadier plan
He would organize and operation that would bring him honour and teach his men the true meaning of being in the army. It was his duty to take charge of all unusual and dire threats to peace and security. He would think of this mess as an opportunity rather that a bother -
The newcomer
He was a quiet man, very shy, only just installed in goverment service. Very thin, and weak-looking. He had been offered the town of Shakhot as his first posting preciesly because it was not a very big responsability -
Mr Gupta
He gide him to his new home and told him that the monkeys were a terrible business. -
Meeting
The meeting with Brigadier, was interrupted by the Monkey protection Society. -
Interrupted meeting
The Brigadier was about to explain his plan to Sampath, but with all the noise from the crowd coming from outside it was impossible. -
The plan begins
The monkey catchers began to be trained at a furious pace.
The brigadier was not happy with this idea because his plan was rushed and not made. -
Note to pinky
Sampth smuggled an urgent note to Pinky via the faithful milkman, The note read a little runny from a leftover bit of buffalo milk. -
The plan
When Mr. Gumpa arrived The District Collector's had to be ready.
They were to go in the government jeep to the cantonment area and together they would proceed to the orchard, where they would meet the police. who were to be on special alert for any disturbance that might interrupt these sensitive opperations. -
Things being better.
It was al quiet, all good and a good atmosphere. The plan turned out perfectly good,
The air was suddenly still, the bird flew back into the forest while Sampath was in the orchard. -
The broken branch
Some noises started to appear, and above Kulfi's enormous cooking pot hung a broken brunch.
Gingerly, they approached the bubbling cauldron. -
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Hullbaloo in the Guava Orchard
