The Portrayals Of The White Tiger

Imagine how would our world be if all human beings had the same opportunities, a world where equity ruled our society. In this case, poverty will be extinguished. Unfortunately, there are still some countries where the wealth is very poorly distributed, and a great portion of the population is below the poverty line. Such is the case of India, an Asian country located in south-central part of the continent. One percent of the population in India holds close to half of the country’s wealth. The book The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, is a great novel where you can notice the things that people who are poor, must go through and how difficult it is. It is so rigid to get

Both the movie Slumdog Millionaire and the novel White TIger were set in India, but the two pieces tended to respresent two ideas that clashed together. In Slumdog Millionaire, the main character is honest and rises above corruption, making it out of the slums of the world and even gets a girl! Balram in White Tiger, however, succeeds in life by become less human and more corrupt. The novel itself pretty much laughs in the face of the usual story of the good guy winning.

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

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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is novel about young boy named Balram Halwai. Balram, born into a poor rural community in Laxmangahr, India, was a shockingly intelligent student who had great potential to go on and make something of his life. However, he was never able to utilize his intelligence to his full potential because of the circumstances surrounding his life in his community and at home. Balram is a “white tiger” as well as Sayed, a white tiger is someone who is an outsider to his or her community, a white tiger is very rare just like Sayed and Balram. Both of these men have special talents that are rare to their communities, and both of these men are very rare because they were able to once escape their poverty stricken communities. Although Sayed returned to his poverty stricken village, he is still a “white tiger” because he was once able to leave, something that many people have tried, but few have

After being killed by Kev, the power between Tiger and the humans change when he enters his afterlife as a ghost. As a ghost, Tiger floats outside of his cage looking over his own body and suddenly realizes that he is free once again. In the form of a ghost Tiger uses his power to haunt the humans that deserved it, such as Kev. This was his form of revenge on behalf of what Kev did to him. Kev begins having hallucinations of Tiger after killing him. These hallucinations end up making Kev have a mental breakdown right in the middle of another patrol. Kev is placed on suicide watch because his mental stability becomes an issue affecting the confidence people have in him to do his job.

The novel show about Mumbai culture, tradition, Landscape and behavior of the people. While reading the novel “The White Tiger” there is a urge that due to poverty the protagonist who is from pelor family his master. Not only poverty

In the novel The White Tiger, the metaphor “white tiger” is used to term the protagonists Balram. In means of figurative language, a metaphor is a scheme or figure of speech (Meyer 31). It “presupposes a ground of similarity between the tenor […] and the image or vehicle” (Meyer 32). The metaphor actually “does more because it asks us to see x as y, [thus] to regard something in a new light (Meyer 32, Bode 94). Metaphors, therefore, try to clarify and illustrate a comparison between x and y, and discover similarities (Meyer 37) whereas both should have at least one thing in common, otherwise they cannot be compared and it would be very vague to refer someone to something if not one aspect is equal.

In the novel “White Tiger”, the narrator Belram makes reference to a rooster coop which he uses to describe the lower-castes in Indian society. Those trapped inside the coop are able to smell the blood of their slain brothers and see their organs strewn around them; however even with these horrendous conditions if you were to hand them the key, they would throw it back in your face with a curse. In Belram's opinion, the majority of Indians stuck inside the rooster coop are completely content to be trapped. However, there are unique individuals like himself the "white tiger" with undying drive, incredible ingenuity and flexible morality who break free of this cycle of servitude and rise up to the top. Those individuals are the true entrepreneur

There was a tiger lurking low in the grasslands of Africa. Logan the Lion has spotted him on his way to dinner. He strolled up to the Tiger and introduced himself. “Hello, I’m Logan the Lion,” he said mightily as he he is the king. “Who are you?”

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.

Balram had planned to confess his criminal thoughts, but Mr Ashok interrupted him thinking that he wanted to ask him for some money to get married. Such mean and ironic behaviour on the part of Ashok drives Balram crazy for vengeance. There is perfect communication gap between the two. This is symbolic of the rich-poor divide that is fermenting to take revenge. Balram’s plans are confirmed while visiting the National Zoo in Delhi. When he chanced to see the white tiger in the enclosure, he began his musings. Balram associated his symbolic life of freedom with that of sitting under chandeliers. “Sometimes, in my apartment, I turn both the chandeliers, and then I lie down amid all the light, and I just start laughing. A man in hiding, and yet he’s surrounded by chandeliers! There – I’m revealing the secret to a successful escape. The police searched for me in darkness: but I hid myself in light” (TWT, p. 118). He moves from success to success- from being a social entrepreneur to a business entrepreneur. He has perhaps become another incarnation of Mr Ashok by christening himself Ashok. Yes, Ashok! That’s what I call myself these

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie argues that certain novels “have an empathetic human quality, or ‘emotional truth,’” which “is different from honesty and more resilient than fact.” Adiga and Satrapi use “emotional truth” in The White Tiger and The Complete Persepolis to invoke the readers’ empathy and desire for social justice. Through the characters’ perspectives, both authors break down cultural stereotypes and reveal how consequences from political and social upheavals affect the people close to the conflicts. Adiga uses Balram to demonstrate the effects of the caste system and how he must be unique to find a way to be released from the “Rooster Coop” and undermine his status in society (Adiga160). He sees himself as ambitious and is not willing to surrender to a confined life that has no opportunities for advancement because he envisions a better future for himself. Balram calls himself a white tiger, which represents something that is rare and different from the others. In order for him to achieve a different life, he must act against the expectations of authority by rebelling and becoming aggressive and violent towards Ashok. Through Balram, Adiga uses imagery to describe how the lower caste can seek change. Balram says “the book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly young Indian,” which expresses that the desire for change is inside of them and they must act upon it to find themselves and freedom (Adiga 260). According to Waller, “Adiga is both asking Indians

Written by Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger tells the story of a man who went from living with nothing to someone with everything he could ever want. Balram Halwai grows up in “the Darkness,” an area of India where, among other things, family was the main source of life and contempt for family was of the utmost evil. When he decides to find a job outside of his social circle, Balram’s family implores him to send money home to sustain them. He finally hits his final straw when his grandmother begins to try to force him to be married, something he does not have interest in and knows it will take away his independence. Once he disconnects from his family, he is able to be himself, free from his former life that tied him down. As Balram Halwai embarks on his journey to become successful as the “White Tiger”, the social concept of family breaks down, thus giving way to him finding his independence.