Analysis Of The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga

India has a major problem with corruption. In the book The White Tiger, we see this problem throughout Balram’s life. The first time we are exposed to corruption is when Balram is just a young boy living in his village that is in the “darkness” of India. His village of Laxmangarh is in the darkness of India and is run by four landlords that use intimidation and scare tactics to collect an unfair amount of money from their tenants.(pg. 21-22) Another place you see corruption in The White Tiger is when Balram is working for Ashok and his family. Their family has to pay the government bribes to keep from being prosecuted for illegally stealing coal, and evading taxes.(pg.233) Imagine if we lived in a country where if you paid the national government

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In the novel, The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga the main character, is Balram, one of the children in the “darkness” of India. Adiga sheds a new light on the poor of India, by writing from the point of view of a man who was at one time in the “darkness” or the slums of India and came into the “light” or rich point of view in India. Balram’s job as a driver allows him to see both sides of the poverty line in India. He sees that the poor are used and thrown away, while the rich are well off and have no understanding of the problems the poor people must face. The servants are kept in a mental “Rooster Coop” by their masters. The government in India supposedly tries to help the poor, but if there is one thing Adiga proves in The White Tiger,

As ‘The White Tiger’, Balram has high standards to live up to throughout his life, even as a driver. “‘You’d never guess that his caste was a teetotaling one,’” said a minister Balram drove “‘would you?’”(Adinga 182). On his rise to entrepreneurship, Balram works as a private driver. Drivers are often seen as uneducated and lowly, so when Balram proves his quality, he is simply rewarded with kudos. While Balram works to be successful, John works to be a voice of reason within the World State, seemingly opposing his nickname. John, once an outsider to both his birthplace and now to the World State, tries to free them from what he believes is captivity, in a protest. He began to scream, “‘Free, free’” as “he punched the indistinguishable faces of his assailants” (Huxley 193). His views of the World State, rooting from his knowledge on the reservation, opposed the society. When he tries to speak out and becomes violent, he begins to fulfill the stigma of a Savage. Both men in the novels are the Black sheeps in their

Balram is a significant figure that represents the people from the lower caste of the society. He had received severely limited education, job opportunities, medical attention(for his father) and other welfare facilities. The world treated him poorly, it forces him to cope with the fact that even

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Balram has one goal that he wants to achieve. That goal is to become successful. With this goal in mind, he encounters many factors that revolve around the aspect of relationship. Factors include family, lust and betrayal. Family requires a lot of responsibility of

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It cannot fairly be said that in Aravind Adiga’s novel, The White Tiger, the only way to escape the Darkness and advance in society is through violence, as an alternative route to the Light is presented in the story arc of Vijay, the pig herder’s son turned politician. Balram asserts that the murder of Ashok is not only the direct cause of his new wealth and status, but also the only possible trigger for his newfound social mobility. Yet, this is contradicted earlier in the story when he presents Vijay, the bus driver, as his role model for a successful person. Vijay, in order to achieve his elevated position, resorted to prostitution; despite not being a desirable alternative to violence, it is an alternative all the same and therefore violence is not the only way to escape the Darkness. Following this logic, it is Balram’s story and the immediate increase in wealth that results from the murder of Ashok that best supports violence as the only means of moving into the Light, and Vijay’s story is the best evidence against that point of view.

The narrator of the novel, “The White Tiger,” by Aravind Adiga writes in first person. This particular narrator is Balram Halwai, who tells about his own journey throughout the book. The writer uses the style of the narrator, Balram, writing letters to the Chinese Premier. This particular narrator is telling the story because it is him that is writing the letters. This style of letter writing helps to tell the story because through these letters Balram tells of how he came to be a success in life. The reason he started to write letters to Mr. Premier was in response to something he heard on the radio. He heard the statement that said, “Mr. Jiabao is on a mission: he wants to know the truth about Bangalore” (2). Balram, the narrator, knows he is a man with little formal education, but considers himself an expert on the hidden truth of the India culture. Mr. Premier also wants to meet with Indian entrepreneurs and hear about their success and Balram wanted to tell about his. He considers himself an expert because of his life story. Balram grew up in a rural area in poverty. In school an inspector calls him “The white Tiger,” because he said “it is the rarest of animals” (30). He called him this because thought Balram was the brightest kid in the village. He was forced to drop out of school and start working to help support his family. He ends up getting a job as a chauffeur to the Stork’s family. The Stork is one of the bosses that have control over Balram’s village where

Balram’s thoughts of family keep him grounded while is in search of a job as a driver for a master to break him out of the Darkness. In his search, he finds a man who immediately does not want to accept him as a driver. Justifying his qualifications, Balram declares, “I don’t disrespect God, I don’t disrespect my family” (Adiga 51). In this quote, Balram equivocates disrespecting one's family to disrespecting God. Even if he does not truly believe this himself, it shows that words like this will have an effect on those around him because religion and family are very important to people. Moreover, this quote demonstrates that family grounds Balram’s thinking in the beginning on the novel, something that drastically changes as time passes. Later in the novel, Balram makes a pro versus con list of his spit to decide what to do and how he should continue his life. One puddle of spit says to him, “Your father wanted you to be a man” (Adiga 210). Balram explains early in the novel that his father was a good man and this quote shows that Balram’s father did not tie him down to a particular path in life. All he wanted was for him to have the strength and skills stereotypically associated with being a man. These two instances sharply contrast with the rest of his family’s views of him that restrict his freedom.

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