Belram was nicknamed the “white tiger” in class when the school inspector came in a suit to ask Belram if he can read, write, and to answer a question about the prime master. Belram said everything correctly, and the inspector said “in any jungle, what it is the rarest of animals the creature that comes along only once in a generation?” (30). Belram said the “the white tiger” (30). The passage is talking about Balram's character of being a successful man and being the rare one in the group that is smart.
Belram is a “young man, [he’s] intelligent, honest, vivacious fellow in this crowd of thugs and idiots”, and he is the rare one in the group. The people around are not good in school when “one boy after the other stood up and blinked at the wall”
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The white tiger is the rare one in the jungle while there are plenty of orange tigers.
The area where Belram comes from makes an exception and is a rarity for people “born and raised in darkness”, and how many people in the darkness do not experience the light like Belram (11). India is separated in “two countries”, “India of the light and an India of darkness” (12). The light is away from poverty and being successful, but there is limited amount in India. The light is the “ocean” that Belram says it is, and the ocean has clear water which the people get in the light. The place for the poor with horrible conditions that Belram calls the “black river” is the darkness.
The people in the darkness cannot get out of the poverty. You have to be smart like Belram showed to the school inspector. Belram's father could of have been able to fill his stomach and be in the light, but “a member of some other caste must have stolen it from him with the help of the police (54). It is hard for someone from the dark to get into the light without some
As we carry on with the story we come upon a character that goes by the name Robert Walton. He embarked on writing letters to his sister in England who goes by the name Margret. He states,” What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?” this quote comes from Walton’s first letter, it encloses that of light is a symbol of knowledge and discovery
The subtle symbolism of light and dark means more than the broad explanation of happy and sad: “…from within there appeared, in the first place, like
Throughout the entire novel, Balram does not exhibit intellectual empathy because he is too concerned with his own self-interest to notice the needs of the others around him. Intellectual empathy is the ability to see the world through the eyes of others in an effort t to better understand them. The novel demonstrates that in order to become successful, one must ignore the needs of others; and Balram’s willingness to neglect and ignore others and their viewpoints allows him to do just
... world that Balram lives in is harsh and cruel, mainly because of the Rooster Coop. The Rooster Coop kept Balram from discovering his own potential in life, until finally he realized that he could leave the Coop. The fear and hatred the poor felt kept them in line, and kept others around them from becoming White Tigers. If the people of India were to realize that they were in a Rooster Coop, India’s slums would most likely disappear, and the poor of India would finally realize their true potential. The government would be forced to fulfill its promises and the rich would no longer rule India. Adiga has a lot of agility. Balram was a very dutiful servant. Balram repulsed the whore. He went through a period of florescence. This is an odd genre. Balram was their chaperon. Mrs. Pinky was quite in fashion. Balram uses a lot of sarcasm. In Mythology there are Centaurs.
He could only see by the light of a candle. Light also represents discovery. Not only does it represent discovery in this book, but also in life. When you discover something everyone knows the saying is a light bulb in your head going off. Equality 7-2521 and the golden one find a new discovery of light. They called it the power of light and we call it electricity. See, they discovered an old invention to use but a very new invention to them. This is so important because this discovery is what brings the climax of the story. The discovery of light is what brings pain to Equality 7-2521 and the Golden One at first when they are lashed, but in the end their discovery brought them to a house full of new and exciting things to them. Light made this story and light makes the world go
In Heart of Darkness, there is a real contrast between what is light and what is dark. These contrasts work within a reality of civilized and savage. It appears that light represents the civilized, and dark represents the uncivilized, but truly, white is evil, and the dark is innocent and virtuous.
In the allegory, a slave is then brought out of the cave, in what Plato refers to as "he ascent of the soul into the intellectual world" (Jacobus 319). Once out of the cave the slave discovers that what he thought was real is not. He learns to comprehend all of these new images as real and true. Since he has been in the dark, both literally and metaphorically, the light blinds him.
Ashok, who is the first person to expose Balram to real corruption and also acts as his ticket out of his impoverished life. Following the hit and run of a pedestrian by Pinky Madam and Mr. Ashok, Balram expresses disgust and rage at the circumstances, where servants are frequently framed for the crimes of their masters, and the servants ' families are so deluded that they actually brag that their boy has been so "loyal". Balram is morally polluted into thinking that to escape such situations, you have to be a part of the corrupt system. Thus he claims that he “was corrupted from a sweet, innocent village fool into a fellow full of, depravity and wickedness, all because they happened in Mr. Ashok first.” Learning from Mr Ashok and his environment, Balram becomes tainted enough to come to the conclusion to murder his master. Balram understand that he must transform himself enough to embrace an alternate system of morality, become the iteration of the Nietzschean ubermensch, which allows him to justify murder and betrayal of family. The reader understands that this alternate system of morals is crucial towards his self-improvement, but at the same time they lose empathy for him when his moral depravity is demonstrated by murdering Mr Ashok. The act of murder for personal gain, or any other reason can never be justified, because murder in the end is murder, it has no
Aravind Adiga’s debut novel The White Tiger published in 2008, and a winner of Booker Prize examines the issues of religion, caste, loyalty, corruption, urbanization and poverty in India. The novel besides receiving critical acclaim was also lambasted by some in India for giving in to western prejudices and playing up to their image of a poverty stricken, slum governed country. Some even went to the extent of calling it a western conspiracy to deny the country’s economic progress. It seems ...
Tigers are the largest members of the cat family. They live in Asia and belong to the same genus as the lion, leopard, and jaguar. Two major subspecies of the tiger are the Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger. The tiger is thought to have originated in northern Asia during the Pleistocene Epoch.
Because the caste system is often thought of as an ancient fact of Hindu life, the poor people have become so acceptant of their caste that they are not motivated to become successful, even when an opportunity is handed to them. Balram explains this phenomenon using a rooster coop, which plays an important motive in the novel. He compares the poor people of India to the quality of life in a rooster coop, where large amounts of roosters are trapped tightly into a cage. Above the cage, a butcher slaughters other chickens. Even though the roosters know their fate, they do not try to escape. “The very same thing is being done with human beings in this
Aravind Adiga in his debut novel The White Tiger, which won the Britain’s esteemed Booker Prize in 2008, highlights the suffering of a subaltern protagonist in the twenty first century known as materialism era. Through his subaltern protagonist Balram Halwai, he highlights the suffering of lower class people. This novel creates two different India in one “an India of Light and an India of Darkness” (Adiga, p. 14). The first one represents the prosperous India where everyone is able to dream a healthy and comfortable life. The life of this “Shining India” reflects through giant shopping malls, flyovers, fast and furious life style, neon lights, modern vehicles and a lot of opportunities which creates hallucination that India is competing with western countries and not far behind from them. But, on the other side, the life nurtures with poverty, scarcity of foods, life taking diseases, inferiority, unemployment, exploitation and humiliation, homelessness and environmental degradation in India of darkness.
The Bengal tiger is a carnivorous, mammal primarily from India. It lives in habitats such as the coniferous Himalayan Forest, the mangroves of the Sunderbans, the hills of the Indian Peninsula, or the forests of Rajasthan and Northern India. At one time Bengal tigers were scattered throughout Asia. Now they are generally found in India and some regions of Bangledesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Myanmar. There is approximately 4,000 alive in the wild now, and about 300 are in captivity in zoos around the world.
The tiger is known for being a wild and dangerous animal, but also its beauty. In relations to India this could be a reference to the beautiful culture which enriches our experience of India, but also some of the downsides that it has like poverty and unemployment and other sociological factors which paint a grim picture of Indian life.