The White Tiger

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

I enjoyed reading the book “The White Tiger” written by Aravind Adiga over the summer. Throughout the story main character Balram Halwai was explaining his success story in a letter regarding his transformation from being a peasant in a small poor town, to a how he came about to be an entrepreneur. Throughout this novel is a series of letters to “His Excellency” Mr. Wen Jiabao, the Premier of China who wanted to come to the town to follow in his steps. As a character, Balram goes on a transformative

The White Tiger by Avarind Adiga is a satire on the reality of India and the life of the people who live there. The author’s intent is to illustrate the darker side to India that is not part of the original Western idea of India. Issues such as corruption in government and the police and sexual violence are highlighted in this novel. Although this work is realistic fiction the issues presented in this novel are relevant and are present in India today. Newspapers such as the Guardian and the New York

This paper focuses on the ‘subaltern’ community in the post colonial society. Adiga’s The White Tiger throws a ray in the downtrodden and oppressed in the modern world. Adiga being the mouth piece of the deprived, lonely and alienated section of the society through his character Balram. He represents Balram as the white tiger which is the rare kind of animal who has the matchless intellectuality being born in the dark side of India. For Adiga Darkness refers to the oppressed community which is the

Within The White Tiger, Indian society, which is extremely corrupt, is depicted as a world of predator and prey, with the rich taking full advantage of the poor; for one to even reach the same playing field as those at the very top of Indian society, one must adopt the corruption of the upper class and learn to be a predator themselves. We see this with the novels unreliable and narcissistic narrator, Balram, who grew up poor and with very little formal education. Throughout his youth he witnessed

Research Question: How does Aravind Adiga use metaphors in “The White Tiger” to highlight the contrast between the different sections of Indian society? Introduction: Typically, we identify metaphors to be the figure of speech that draws an indirect comparison to bring out an enhanced rhetoric effect. However, metaphors are so strongly ingrained in our language, that all of us think, write, and even speak in metaphors every day. Ironically, the word metaphor itself is a metaphor, as “metaphor” stems

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

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

the novels “The White Tiger” and “Last Man In Tower” with the common themes of corruption, identity crisis, religious belif during Modernization and globalization in India. The main theme presents, the fact of money changes a person to be a murderer though they are a servant or any close relation to anybody. Both the novel has the theme of identity crisis. The novel show about Mumbai culture, tradition, Landscape and behavior of the people. While reading the novel “The White Tiger” there is a urge

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