Aravind Adiga

1. 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

White Tiger is a novel written by Aravind Adiga. It takes place during an economic revolution in India. The author grew up in India and Australia and later in America. After graduating college he wrote for the New York Times and reported on the stock market and finances. Adiga purposely wrote about people nothing like him, he grew up in the middle class and his father was a doctor. He strived to write about the poor, which he knew little about. He also wanted to write about the Indian society and

Taurino Ramirez D. Lyons English 1A/ 52395 09/18/17 Analysis of The White Tiger, Final Essay A Rose by Any Other Name “Action without a name, A who is attached to it, Is meaningless” -Hannah Arendt. The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, is a novel about a self-made entrepreneur who wants to make a change for his life, named Balram. Throughout this story, the author gives various names to our protagonist that expresses many things about him. Such names include: Munna, Balram, country mouse, and Ashok

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

In the novel The White Tiger written by Aravind Adiga, the main protagonist Balram Halwai does not display intellectual integrity based on his malleable persona repeatedly shaped by his peers, masters and people of higher class, revealing that people will accept changes if it ultimately leads to social acceptance. In the beginning, Balram was not always known as “Balram” because as a child, he was nameless and was only known as “Munna”, which means boy, until his teacher had named him Balram. He

Balram and his journey from rags to riches in The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga attempts to portray, in an exaggerated form, the daily life and corruption of India. One of the most prominent literary devices that Adiga incorporates into the novel is animal imagery. The title of the novel, certain characters, and the societal hierarchy as a whole are among the many aspects of the novel that are related to animals. Through this imagery, Adiga highlights the eat or be eaten, jungle lifestyle that encompasses

Breaking the Shackles of Caste and the Past Aravind Adiga effectively captures the true image of modern India through the story of the fictional character Balram Halwai. The novel takes the reader through the struggles of class that exist in India at a time when the country is undergoing rapid modernization and globalization. The novel contradicts the exotic image of India that is generally represented in literature (for example, the stories of Rudyard Kipling.) Instead the novel familiarizes us

such values ourselves? This essay explores the extent to which uprising financial and social mobility conflict with Balram Halwai’s moral values in The White Tiger, in terms of family and religion, violence and sex, darkness and light and politics. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, an astounding novel with likewise literary value, tells the story of Balram Halwai, a poor sweet-maker turned ruthless businessman, depicting throughout

Aravind Adiga’s debut and Man Booker Prize winning epistolary novel, ‘The White Tiger’, is a chronicle of the underbelly Balram, whose quest for freedom is a microcosm for the underclass and its life of struggle in 21st century, globalized India. Class antagonism and social stratification is an integral part of this society and ‘The White Tiger’ provides a brutally realistic exposition of the downtrodden through the first-person narrator, Balram Halwai, who is a strong voice of the underclass. This

The White Tiger is a novel, in which Aravind Adiga deals with the issue of class and caste difference. The narrative attempts to highlight struggle and exploitation of the common and poor strata of society of India. It is in that sense it is a realistic novel identifying and reflecting over the burning issues of the society. Through the psycho realistic narrative the author presents the gloomier picture of the rural life at the protagonist’s native, Laxmangarh. The protagonist is an aspirant of becoming