Aravind Adiga

petter her and fed her a plump carrot as we mopped our father’s infected blood off the floor. (Adiga 42) The lack of care exhibited by the hospital emphasizes the harsh reality of just how terrible life is for the impoverished in India. Balram spoke in high honor of his father and mentions that his father “never crouched,” like the servants were expected to on his job - that he “preferred to stand” (Adiga 20). A life of a man that Balram respected and loved, a life that protected him…

the growth and mental understanding of their adolescence. In the world of sport, it is imperative that the performing athlete has a strong sense of personal motivation as well as a well-structured support system. In the novel Selection Day by Aravind Adiga, the main characters have an emotionally fraught…

In The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga portrays a gut-wrenching, vivid display of a country that is defined by the oppression of the proletariat by both the super-structure and bourgeoisie. India is a relatively new “free” country, and can be defined by three periods: the early caste/pre-colonization, the British rule/colonization, and Western globalization/post-colonization. During the last period, an economy based in capitalism grew from the ashes of the previous British colonization where a vacuum…

The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, is a novel that focuses on the life of Balram, the son of an Indian rickshaw driver. Balram is writing a letter to Wen Jiabao, an important Chinese official who has embarked on a diplomatic visit to India. He decides to tell Jiabao his life story in an attempt to educate the man about Indian entrepreneurship, because he truly believes that his story is more accurate than the political accounts he is sure the Chinese official will hear. Balram chronologically…

Money is a wonderful thing, except when people grow greedy for it. That is when a person’s worst is brought out. Greed for money and success is helpful to a certain point and then it becomes dangerous. Within the two books The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and 419 by Will Ferguson the idea explored is that money outweighs people’s morals. Lawmen, politicians, lawyers, although they are there to fight for the law they can become corrupt if money is involved. It does not matter what job you have or…

In Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, the narrator Balram portrays himself as an anti-hero; while accepting his status as a murderer, Balram also fights against the systemic poverty and oppression the poor of India face due to the corruption and simple negligence of the wealthy and powerful of India. Balram compares the plight of the poor with the image of the Great Indian Rooster Coop, where hundreds of chickens stand immobilized in a slaughterhouse, knowing full well of their futures. Balram…

the characters in The White Tiger are corrupt in some way. Do you agree? Throughout Aravind Adiga’s novel “The White Tiger” he constantly exposes the fact that India almost all aspect of India are corrupt. Adiga focuses heavily on government’s corruption of; schools, hospitals, police, elections and many industries and how the rich are subsequently getting richer. While corruption is seen mainly from the rich Adiga shines a light on the corruption that can occur to those in the ‘darkness’.…

out there can change an individual 's views on his/her global vision, and they may even change the way they look at humanity and learn a few truths about humanity. In this comparative essay the similarities and differences of The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga and 419, by Will Ferguson, will be identified, and the similarities and differences will be used to identify what global vision exists and what universal lessons are being enforced through the global visions. Also how these two books do…

A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF ANIMAL METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS FOUND IN THE NOVEL “THE WHITE TIGER” BY ARAVIND ADIGA 1. Background of Study The use of animal terms in the human daily conversation has taken place rapidly nowadays which involving the speaker’s thought and emotion. These terms have sort of imagery which is usually delivered through speech acts and idioms. The most common device to use the animal imagery is that by comparing the animal to something unrelated that cannot be taken literally.…

Killer, entrepreneur, and biased all words that describe Aravind Adiga’s main character in The White Tiger. Balram grow up in the darkness as a boy his father was a rickshaw puller, a poor man. His mother died when he was at a young age and then his father dies in a doctorless government hospital. He then made his way to driver’s school and got a job as Mr. Ashoks driver and begins to make his way into the light. Despite Adiga thinking he has an unbiased scope through Balram, he is biased…