The White Tiger And Slumdog Millionaire Essay

You have made it to the top. You’re extremely wealthy and live in a penthouse on the top floor and drive a shiny black Bentley. That is where both Balram and Jamal end up in the end of their stories, but how did they get there? In each text, both The White Tiger and Slumdog Millionaire, Balram and Jamal both achieve their ultimate end goal of getting rich. Yet Balram resorts to violence and trickery, while Jamal uses the same strategies in some ways he also accomplishes his end goal with honesty and past experiences while he was growing up. Jamal also benefits from Salim’s blood money which was earned through his violent and harsh actions.

In Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger, Balram repeatedly tells us how badly he’d love to go kill this

Instead Jamal uses his knowledge he gained growing up as a child as well as being honest in everything he says and does. The main example we get of Jamal using his past experiences to get rich and get ahead comes when he’s a contestant on the game show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, where he must answer questions to earn money. As Jamal sits there we get flashbacks of his childhood where we see answers to the questions. For example there was a scene in which Jamal saw a young child dressed up as a God, that flashback helped him to answer one of the earlier questions. In this situation we see that he just simply replayed this memory in his head instead of using violent methods to get the correct answer, earning him money. We can also see how truthful Jamal is soon after correctly answering the all important million dollar question. Jamal is asked which cricketer has the most centuries and before he can answer the question, the show cuts to commercial. While on commercial break the host and him cross paths in the bathroom and discuss how he, (Jamal), doesn’t know the correct answer. The host writes an answer on the mirror but Jamal doesn’t take the bait and gets the correct answer, the one that wasn’t written on the mirror. That’s when Jamal gets taken in