Quyen Nguyen
IB English
The White Tiger
The character has changed throughout the book. Balram as the main character , living in the rural village of Laxmangarh, where he lived with his grandmother, parents, brother and extended family. He was forced out of school to work in the teashop. He learned about India's government and economic from listening to the customers conversations. Balram took a job, becoming Ashok main driver. When Ashok and Pinky Madam were having a night together, Pinky got drunk and took the wheel. Leading a death of a child"Adiga, Aravind. "The Fourth Night." The White Tiger: A Novel. New York: Free, 2008. 137. Print.." Having Balram's family put at risk Balram, got pressured to confessed that he was driving alone.
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"Adiga, Aravind. "The Sixth Night." The White Tiger: A Novel. New York: Free, 2008. 245. Print.. " Balram then moved and start his taxi business, when one of his driver killed a biker. He then pay off the biker's family. Balram explain that his family was certainly killed by Ashok family member. Balram consider his actions is a freedom that is worth his family's and Ashok. Mr. Ashok is Balram master, he's the Stork son and the Mongoose's brother. He's handsome and good nature. Also married to Madam Pinky but soon separated. Ashok dislike his family's business. His relationship with Balram didn't save him from being killed by Balram. Pinky Madam is Ashok wife, she is as good looking as her husband Ashok. She was never accepted by Ashok's family. Madam pinky got drunk and ran over a child. Still, she was unsatisfied with the life in India, she eventually left Ashok and move back to New York." Adiga, Aravind. "The Fifth Night." The White Tiger: A Novel. New York: Free, 2008. 156-157. Print.." Kusum is Balram's grandmother, she been blackmailing him to sending money home. The stork is one of the four animals that controls Laxmangarh. He is father to Ashok and Mongoose. The wild boar is one of the four animals, that controls …show more content…
The Mongoose is one of the four animals, that controls Laxmangarh, he's the brother of Ashok and the son of the Stork. "The Fifth Night." The White Tiger: A Novel. New York: Free, 2008. 156-157. Print.." Mr. Krishna is Balram's teacher in Laxmangarh, he was the one who gave him, his name. Vikram is Balram's father, he died of tuberculosis. Vikram motivate Balram to improve his life. Balram's mother died when he was very young. kishan is Balram's brother, he has a strong father-like figure. The Premier of China is whom Balram address the letter in the story. Dilip is Balram and kishan's cousin whom help them move to Dhanbad. Ram Persad was the Stork main driver but when Balram found his secret, he disappeared. Anastasia is the prostitute that Balram hired, he then found out her hair is dyed to blond zand got angry.The manager is Anastasia pimp. The Muslim shop owner introduce Balram to many great poets. Mohammad Asif work in Balram's company when he hit and killed the boy. Ms. Uma is a former lover of Ashok. Dharam was sent to Balram so he could take care of him. Vitiligo-Lips is one of the driver that Balram meet. Vijay is Balram's childhood hero. The Great
There is a great variety of characters in the novel, Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese. Readers can clearly see the differentiating personalities, traits and behaviours among each character in the novel. This entices audience members to continue reading, to further explore the vast development of the characters, both static or dynamic.
The protagonist Rikki Tikki Tavi is a mongoose. He is with some humans that found him. Then the two antagonists are two black cobras whose names are Nag and Nagaina. These two cobras strike fear into all of the helpless animals.
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
One day I was taking a hike in the Himalayan mountains and came upon a big wall of stone blocking the path. In the middle of the stone wall was a round little door with a key hanging on a hook beside it. Being cautious I crept up to the door and knocked. I don’t know who would have answered the door if someone had answered. I was puzzled and stuck to the spot thinking of what to do. I decided to walk back to my village way down below and come back tomorrow to see if the wall was still there. When I got home I ran straight to the town square to go to my father’s workshop. I told Papa all about my journey in the mountains. He warned me of animals that would take me away to the darkest corners and eat me up. Just then Tijana came running into the store. “There is a tiger in the rice fields!” he shouted. Every once in awhile the wild beasts from the jungle would come into the valley in which the village sat. Our bravest men would shoot arrows and protect us. When the creature went away or was dead we would celebrate, but that never
Being a young man raised in a fine castle of the Baron, Candide had no idea of what a real life is outside of the caste. In that place, he was surrounded by his needs, including his lover Cundegonde and a great mentor Pangloss. Once he was abandoned from his fine castle, he had separated from his Cundegone and had to face the brutal life on his journey to find his lover. However, Candide learned the idea of Pangloss, which is ‘everything is for the best’, he faces, hears, and lives through the worst things of human existence on his journey. Every adventure he goes through with or without the help of others, such as Cacambo, Martin, Pangloss, and an old woman, gives him
Standing in the center of a larger arena was a young youth whose faith was in the balances. Spectators raise steely on all sides directly in front of him awaiting his death. In front of him was two massive doors behind one were life and bliss, behind another lies a man-eating beast.
The most interesting part of the novel is it’s end which is left on the readers to decide that whether the liked the first story of tiger and a human or the second one that includes animals giving out the mix feeling of humor and grief also Pi Patel describes it as a happy ending (although the tiger left him but he got on land after 100 days on life boat moreover he accomplished his quest of finding God).
Assignment: Describe 5 symbols that guide you in your continued search for faith and belief. List the symbol, describe in detail the symbol, provide an illustration of the symbol, and give a specific example of how this symbol helped shape your faith and your beliefs in this world.
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.
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.
Following the industrial revolution, the world saw the rise of a new social and economic class that became known as the working class. The working class, made up of wage dependent laborers, began growing very rapidly as industrialization spread throughout the globe. Karl Marx was one of the first people to see the growing potential within this class which he referred to as the proletariat. Marx saw a divide forming within society due to the bourgeoisie continuing to rise in power, while the proletariat grew stagnate or declined in power To understand Karl Marx’s and Frederick Engel’s Communist Manifesto, the proletariat must be defined, also the importance of the proletariat must be understood.
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
“The Lady, or The Tiger” by Mr. Frank R. Stockton has compelled readers for as long as time. This story ends with all wondering, so which is it, the delicate and fair young lady or the savage, fierce, wild-eyed tiger standing behind the door. This makes us ponder whether human heart chooses love or jealously. Within this essay, there will be proof that it is the stunning young woman behind the door. Although there is evidence proving that it is the tiger, in a sense there is more evidence stating that the elegant and barbaric princess allowed her real lover to continue living. To begin let us start with the small dwindling points that the tiger, lye behind the door.
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,
One peril from bringing a wide-ranging scope into this argument, is the need to then reassert how this would assert itself, with comparisons from which we’ve analyzed, and understood the sublime better. The “where” and “when” would at least improve, by habits exhibited today. Reserving it and “beauty” as synonymous terms might have once been serviceable, but after what Burke and Shaw went about to put in place, this acceptance of the darker, more drastic sides of our world is almost, itself, compelled to this new era. Ways of thinking correspond, blossom, and flourish with these new dimensions, but if also figuring in logical reasoning, little room is left to speak of any emotional responses, or the asserted faithfulness wherever the