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The Connell Guide to Kiran Desai's Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Advanced Short Study Guide)
All you need to know about Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise and beautifully designed to help students understand, and enjoy, great works of literature. Connell Guides are also great reads themselves scholarly, yet approachable and entertaining.
Part parable, part allegory, part satire, Hullabaloo lends itself to many different interpretations. What does it say about Indian village life – and about the world in general – that a simpleton living in a tree can have people treating his every utterance as gospel? And what should we make of the alcoholic monkeys, harbingers of chaos? These are just two of the many questions explored in the Connell Short to Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.
Part parable, part allegory, part satire, Hullabaloo lends itself to many different interpretations. What does it say about Indian village life – and about the world in general – that a simpleton living in a tree can have people treating his every utterance as gospel? And what should we make of the alcoholic monkeys, harbingers of chaos? These are just two of the many questions explored in the Connell Short to Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.
22 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 6, 2015
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