The White Tiger

The story White Tiger by Aravind Adiga follows the protagonist Balram in his gradual journey of being powerless to being a powerful and wealthy entrepreneur in India through a letter that he writes to the Premier of China. The struggle to wealth is especially challenging in India and is constantly compared to the metaphor of the Rooster Coop. The metaphor of the Rooster Coop compares rooster in a cage to servants to their masters. Roosters are stucked in a cage and faces grave consequence if they

In the novel “The White Tiger”, the writer utilizes the “Murder Weekly” magazine to draw the line between perception and reality in this Indian society. The narrator depicts that all “drivers and cooks in Delhi” read this magazine and as much as they would love to, they are unable to “slit their masters’ necks.” Aravind Adiga utilizes this magazine as a source of outlet to showcase the harsh reality these workers live in. They are used and abused to the point that rather than having perceived dreams

and subalternity as elements in postcolonial theory. She argues that class and caste barriers continue to exist with only limited infractions between the two Indias presented in the works. The study titled “Major Themes in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger” (2010) by Sarika Dubey and Kishwar Jahan Begum offers a refreshing Dalit perspective on the novel. While they appreciate Adiga’s attempts in lifting the veil on the seldom-publicised truths of life in modern India, they shun the protagonist’s violent

When reading The White Tiger, we see that government corruption plays a prominent and essential theme to the success of the novel. Balram, the protagonist, escapes his small village of Laxmangarh, an example of the “darkness” of India into the "light" where he is then a driver and servant for a rich man. He quickly realizes that once he sees the big city of Delhi, it is nothing but a crooked and unscrupulous regime. Through countless examples in everyday life, medical establishments, and the election

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is narrated by Balram Halwai who is oppressed in the Manichean society of India. The narration occurs in the form of epistolary letters to the Premier of China, who is soon to visit India. Balram Halwai is born in the darkness, the faceless society of India, so meaningless that he is not given a name at birth. Later in his life he becomes a driver for a man named Mr. Ashok, who is one of the landlord's son. After moving to Delhi, Balram murders his master which enables

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

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

and women who people the works of Adiga before and after globalisation is astounding. Compared to the middle class residents of Vishram Society in Last Man in Tower and the protagonist in The White

Balram was dubbed as the White Tiger, “the creature that comes along only once in a generation” (30). This was a suiting name for Balram. He had an amazing ability to learn even at a young age. Even in a school in which the schoolteacher stole funds allocated for lunch as well as stole school uniforms to sell, Balram found the motivation to not only continue his studies but to also take it outside of the school. However Balram wasn’t able to continue as the White Tiger for long. He would some become

The novel, The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, is a story narrated through numerous letters written to the Premier of china by a man named Balram. Ultimately, Balram is trying to describe class struggles in India and what dire measures are needed to overcome adversity. Balram mentions that there are two parts of India, the darkness and the light. He states that everyone in the darkness is sleeping and they know their fate but do nothing about it. “The greatest thing to come out of this country. .