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One such indigenous worker, a driver named Balram Halwai, is the narrator and protagonist of Aravind Adiga’s forthright debut novel, The White Tiger, which has been the contenders for this year’s Man Booker Prize. Balram’s inception-embody a common Indian story. Born as a poor villager, funny, musing Balram ends up as driver for a deprave businessmen in Gurgaon, Delhi satellite city saturate with malls and IT offices. His employer, propound him a false wave of tenderness and hope but doesn’t dither

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

Arundhati Roy’s Man Booker Prize Winning novel The God of Small Things, whose tragic and alienated life is ubiquitously echoed throughout the novel and her life and destiny are akin to those whose voice always gets muffled. Man suffers spilt within himself via-à-is the society in which he is accidentally born. It is this breach or displacement that occasions many a tension and lifelong struggle. Industrial revolution and the advancement of technology intensified this struggle. As man grows, he finds

Sanskriti Merchant SYBA 345,141259 A. ENG. 4.01 19th January 2016 Role of relationships and literary devices in “Narcopolis” by Jeet Thayil Some might argue that this literary masterpiece is a book about wasted lives, but it isn’t. It’s a book about selling one’s soul and taking a great amount of satisfaction from it. This unapologetic portrayal of a life devoted to drugs is Thayil’s debut novel from the perspective of an outsider slowly gaining the status of someone who belongs. It might be considered

America. Whether fighting our parents or foes overseas, the American people have been faced with numerous conflicts. However, the one that stands out the most in the bloody history that is American war, is the Civil War; but what is the Civil War? Dr. James McPherson, in his article entitled “A Brief Overview of the American Civil War,” states that, “The Civil War is the central event in America 's historical consciousness. While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War

Jonathan Feng Mrs. Emma Richardson University English II 19 November 2007 Life of Pi: Faith in God Elaborated Thesis: The Life of Pi presents a gripping and credible case for religious faith because of Pi’s embracing of major religions, Pi’s encounters with animals as religious symbols, and Pi’s religious faith and will to live at sea. I. Pi’s embracing of major religions A. Hinduism 1. Experienced a Hindu rite of passage at birth 2. Believes

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well. The animals do not last long as all three ends up dead as measures get more desperate. Pi’s telling of the story has both realistic and unrealistic elements. The actions of Richard Parker are typical of a Bengal tiger but things such as a blind man in the middle of the sea or a carnivorous island make Pi’s story less believable. Once rescued, two insurance agents come to speak to Pi about the case of the ships crash. During this time Pi tells them his story of survival on the lifeboat. They find

writing today is firmly entrenched in pain, anxiety of displacement, nostalgia, yearning to belong to roots, and so on. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss are two such novels that explore the tragedy of man on several levels using different perspectives. Both the novels are about averted culture-clash tragedies, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, and about Indian sensibilities. This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections of Indian girls, to see

extraordinary. The tiger in the story acted more like a man, from Pi’s description; Richard Parker is a name of the hunter who caught him, because the mistake of transportation’s work, the tiger’s name exchanged with the name of hunter. Thus, Richard Parker got a man’s name. In the story, Richard Parker used ‘him’ instead of ‘it’, proved the tiger’s personification. Further more, he expressed excessive endures for Pi. He ate the animals and a blind man except Pi. These also can make people re-examine the