The White Tiger

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 nearly impossible to define loving or loathing due to there being many different (and occasionally, contradicting) definitions for every person. That being said, in my experience, love is the feeling of extreme affection one person has for another. The tenderness that the person carries may…

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…

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.…

Individualism The white tiger symbolizes power and majesty in East Asian societies, for example, in China and Japan. It is likewise an image for independence and uniqueness. Balram is seen as not quite the same as those he grew up with. He is the person who escaped the "Murkiness" and discovered his way into the "Light". All through the book, there are references to how Balram is altogether different from those back in his home surroundings. He is alluded to as the "White Tiger" Freedom In a…

Being light or dark is what Aravind Adiga talks about in his novel, The White Tiger. In this novel, the main characters are Balram, Ashok and Balram’s family members. The novel is about the main character, Balram being born in poverty, but ending up succeeding in a dark way. Balram disliked being in the dark, so consequently he killed his boss, which leads him to be the boss himself. There is always dark in light. First, there is always dark in light. After killing his boss, when Balram is…

Topic: All of 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…

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get married, have kids. I’m not married. I don’t have kids, so I’m able to focus 100 percent on this,” said Steven Lopez. When people have family, they have to responsible for them, hence it means sacrificing their times, and interests. In The White Tiger written by Aravind Adiga, family is clearly illustrated as a factor that traps Balram in the “Darkness.” Balram has to follow what his family told him to, and indeed he conceives himself as a victim of Indian traditional family values. Given…

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 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…