Social groups involve two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a sense of unity or objective similarity. In the case of Aravind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger,’ the vast numbers of different social groups are represented in several different ways. Drivers in India are an example of a social group mentioned throughout the novel. Adiga’s interpretation of each driver or group of drivers in the novel are viewed though the eyes of Balram Halwai,
Aravind Adiga’s novel, The White Tiger, discusses the life of entrepreneurial India, Balram. Moving from a weak frightened boy living in what he calls the ‘darkness’, a place of poverty and cruel leaders, he moves up the social hierarchy to the point were he becomes a CEO of a large business corporation. In a letter format to a Chinese minister he conveys his personal thoughts on India’s corruption, the difficulty of social mobility and the change in his own person identity during his life. The readers
In an article entitled, Exciting Tales of Exotic Dark India: Aravind Adiga 's The White Tiger, author Ana Cristina Mendes describes the many attributes of the poor proletariat class of India. Mendes shows how “dark India,”
people through their own life experiences. Writers have enough power to change the reader’s preconceived ideas by the writers sharing of their own perspective on their beliefs. Through analyzing different forms of literature such as White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Joseph Brodsky’s “A commencement Address,” and watching Chimamanda Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” I have realized that reading literature has the ability to change our thinking which in return affects the we judge different society
One's greed and their viciousness can demoralize the human and transform them into someone completely different from what they originally were. In Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, the main character, Balram, starts off as a caring and considerate young boy. After moving to Delhi, Balram's greed for money changes him into a disrespectful and vicious man. In other words, Balram's arrival to Delhi modifies him from an affectionate and respectful character into a vicious individual. Before moving to
soon after that there is more in the world than working for someone. He can be his own boss and he likes that idea more. Greed and the temptation of more takes over his mind and morphs him into a different character. In the novel, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Balram begins by having a sense of self and respect for others, but after realizing that higher success is also achievable it changes him into a darker character with no moralities what so ever, depicting how greed of success can take a man
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger shares the debauchery, fraud and cancer-like corruption dominating Indian society. With constant references to the corrupt practices existing in schools, hospitals, elections and the entirety of the government; Adiga explores injustice is common amongst all characters. Corruption exists in similar aspects of India; a tainted education system leaves Indian’s ‘half baked’ and forced to work off endless debt landlords steal from their families. Politicians, police and
relationships etc. Lately Indian novelist has shifted from rural to metro India, which is the living soul of the country. The problems of urbanization and the problems faced by the people of metro India find a powerful expression in Indian English fiction. 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
Society often tells us what to eat, drink, wear and even what social class we belong to. In the book The White Tiger written by Aravind Adiga, the situation is much similar. The book follows the life of Balram Halwai, a child born into poverty, yet he has the drive of one born into wealth and renown. During his time as a servant/driver for a wealthy Indian family the reader is exposed to the disadvantages of those born into darkness. Throughout the text the reader bears witness to numerous occasions
Introduction 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
The White Tiger: India’s Progression towards Equitable Living Standards Shagun Kukreja ENG3U1-08 Miss. K Attwell May 15, 2014 Every individual has to face the challenge of making plenty of difficult decisions in their life that can cause varying degrees of impact. __________. Arvind Adiga's book, The White Tiger, portrays a character named Balram Halwai, through which we learn conditions of the different social classes in India. In the beginning of the book, Balram feels conflicted with his
Indian Society and Balram in The White Tiger A society that a person lives in can affect the way he behaves. In The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, the Indian corrupted society has demonstrated how a society can change a person’s character and style of living. For instance, Ram Persad has to hide his true religion that he is a Muslim in order for him to work as a driver in Indian racist society. Balram has transformed from an obedient servant to an indifferent murderer who kills his own master because
The White Tiger written by Aravind Adiga is a bildungsroman telling the tale of how the peasant Balram rises to power. From a simple village boy, Balram becomes the founder of a corrupt and successful driving company. The majority of his journey he picked up small lessons from his master, Ashok on how he survives in the fast paced business world. Balram observes his masters actions and eventually becomes more successful than him, but consequently loses his innocence. Adiga uses corruption to explore
In The white tiger, Aravind Adiga presents the act of a low-caste servant trying to escape from the situation of India's underclass, called the Rooster coop. Adigas’s character Balram Halwai writes a series of letters to the Chinese Premier, Mr. Wen Jiabao, proving Adiga’s point that although India pretends to be democratic country, there are many similarities with the repressive Chinese political system. Balram grew up in poor family in the village Laxmangarh in India. Despite his intelligence,
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