The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga Analysis
Aravind Adiga is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He was born in Madras on 23rd October 1974. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize, after Salaman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.He began his journalistic career as a financial journalist, interning at the Financial Times. He was subsequently hired by TIME, where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During his freelance period he wrote The White Tiger.
Adiga’s second book, Between the Assassinations, was released in India in November 2008 and in the US and UK in mid-2009. The book features 12 interlinked short stories. His second novel and third published …show more content…
He dares to dream of joining the well heeled class by breaking the social, moral and religious shackles in which he has been enchained since his birth because he belonged to the lowest economic stratum of Indian society. It is only owing to his sheer luck, stubborn struggle and cold insensitivity towards others that he realizes his dream and starts his own business of taxis, by the name of “The White Tiger Drivers". Balram belongs to the proletariat. His education, his aspirations and his quest for learning are succumbed because of the oppression and exploitation of the capitalist class. He spends the early years of his life in utter poverty and misery. He witnesses his family members struggling to make both ends meet; his father dies because of insufficient economic means to access good medical facilities to cure his tuberculosis. His mother also dies because of the helplessness that is results from poverty. The White Tiger is the epithet given to the protagonist, Balram, by an education minister, who visited his school when Balram was a child. He calls him The White Tiger because he could be distinguished in the whole school because of his brilliance and thirst for knowledge and learning. The White Tiger means the rarest of the animals, the tiger that comes once in a generation of …show more content…
Balram’s inception-embody a common Indian story. Born as a poor villager, chucklesome, musing Balram ends up as driver for a deprave businessmen in Gurgaon, Delhi satellite city saturate with malls and IT offices. His employer, propound him a false wave of tenderness and hope but doesn’t dither to mount this naïve for a crime that his wife actually perpetrate. With no probability of enjoying a chunk of the new Indian nightmare, the driver attempts to amend his upshot by unusual, atrocious means. He slaughtered his boss and makes away with money that was meant for a government suborn. After starting a triumphant business that provided transportation to call center workers in Bangalore, Balram wrote a letter of disclosure to none other than the Chief of another Asian economic triumph story,
Adiga’s second book, Between the Assassinations, was released in India in November 2008 and in the US and UK in mid-2009. The book features 12 interlinked short stories. His second novel and third published …show more content…
He dares to dream of joining the well heeled class by breaking the social, moral and religious shackles in which he has been enchained since his birth because he belonged to the lowest economic stratum of Indian society. It is only owing to his sheer luck, stubborn struggle and cold insensitivity towards others that he realizes his dream and starts his own business of taxis, by the name of “The White Tiger Drivers". Balram belongs to the proletariat. His education, his aspirations and his quest for learning are succumbed because of the oppression and exploitation of the capitalist class. He spends the early years of his life in utter poverty and misery. He witnesses his family members struggling to make both ends meet; his father dies because of insufficient economic means to access good medical facilities to cure his tuberculosis. His mother also dies because of the helplessness that is results from poverty. The White Tiger is the epithet given to the protagonist, Balram, by an education minister, who visited his school when Balram was a child. He calls him The White Tiger because he could be distinguished in the whole school because of his brilliance and thirst for knowledge and learning. The White Tiger means the rarest of the animals, the tiger that comes once in a generation of …show more content…
Balram’s inception-embody a common Indian story. Born as a poor villager, chucklesome, musing Balram ends up as driver for a deprave businessmen in Gurgaon, Delhi satellite city saturate with malls and IT offices. His employer, propound him a false wave of tenderness and hope but doesn’t dither to mount this naïve for a crime that his wife actually perpetrate. With no probability of enjoying a chunk of the new Indian nightmare, the driver attempts to amend his upshot by unusual, atrocious means. He slaughtered his boss and makes away with money that was meant for a government suborn. After starting a triumphant business that provided transportation to call center workers in Bangalore, Balram wrote a letter of disclosure to none other than the Chief of another Asian economic triumph story,