The White Tiger

India, a developing country which has shown great economic growth in the last 50 years. Though it has many struggles to still overcome, it is on a straight path to becoming a world power. In Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger” it shows a somewhat of a grim picture for India. As its main character struggles to break free from his ‘Roster coop’ which is the indian caste system. Balram seemed to stop at nothing to get out from these lower levels, that he was born into. He eventually accomplishes his

experiences and surroundings. A person can be influenced by their society to shape their moral lens according to what’s the norm or what’s common, even if it is not right. In The White Tiger, Balram Halwai witnessed the corruption in India which resulted him in forming his idea of morality and his identity. In The White Tiger, morality is seen to be relative to each individual. It is presented as either rigid or flexible. The story is told in the point of view of Balram Halwai, a man born into extreme

Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger tells the story of a “social entrepreneur” who takes on a few different names throughout his life. Balram, the name he identifies with for the majority of the novel, begins from nothing but finds a job as a driver then builds his own business in the end. Since he was born in the “Darkness” of India, referring to the Ganges river region, the narrator was not named and was called “Munna”, simply meaning boy. This phase of his life, before he attend school, represents

In the novel “White Tiger”, the narrator Belram makes reference to a rooster coop which he uses to describe the lower-castes in Indian society. Those trapped inside the coop are able to smell the blood of their slain brothers and see their organs strewn around them; however even with these horrendous conditions if you were to hand them the key, they would throw it back in your face with a curse. In Belram's opinion, the majority of Indians stuck inside the rooster coop are completely content to be

In Aravind Adiga’s novel, The White Tiger, the protagonist Balram Halwai struggles with the question of “Do we love our masters behind a façade of loving or a façade of loathing?” (160). Yet in reality, it is impossible to define loving or loathing due to there being many different (and occasionally, contradicting) definitions for every person. In my experience, love is the feeling of extreme affection one person has for another. The affection the person holds for another may be platonic or romantic

White Tigers It’s hard to believe that white tigers are almost extinct. You’ll soon discover why they are so rare. Most people agree that these tigers are magnificent however, one of the reasons why they are so rare is because people kill them. White tigers are a vastly uncommon type of tiger. Most all white tigers live in captivity because of how extremely rare they are. (http://animalstime.com/white-tiger-facts-white-tiger-habitat-diet/) On the positive side white tigers are increasing because

White tigers have been endangered since the 20th century. There are now an estimate of 200 white tigers left in the wild, but in 2014 there were over 3,200 white tigers. White tigers are endangered because, White Bengal tigers have also been crossed with Siberian tigers to produce a larger specimen which in turn causes even more genetic problems. For years, breeders and exhibitors have been using the excuse that white tigers are an endangered species so they need to keep breeding them. They live

In the novel The White Tiger, the metaphor “white tiger” is used to term the protagonists Balram. In means of figurative language, a metaphor is a scheme or figure of speech (Meyer 31). It “presupposes a ground of similarity between the tenor […] and the image or vehicle” (Meyer 32). The metaphor actually “does more because it asks us to see x as y, [thus] to regard something in a new light (Meyer 32, Bode 94). Metaphors, therefore, try to clarify and illustrate a comparison between x and y, and

fascinated with the struggle, and many times failure, of virtue against vice. No different is the tale of Mr. Ashok in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, in which readers witness the eventual and anticipated downfall of the protagonist’s idol figure to a man who has embraced the social conventions and twisted ethics that he once so despised. In The White Tiger, Adiga constructs the character of Mr. Ashok

with corruption. In the book The White Tiger, we see this problem throughout Balram’s life. The first time we are exposed to corruption is when Balram is just a young boy living in his village that is in the “darkness” of India. His village of Laxmangarh is in the darkness of India and is run by four landlords that use intimidation and scare tactics to collect an unfair amount of money from their tenants.(pg. 21-22) Another place you see corruption in The White Tiger is when Balram is working for Ashok