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, the main character of the novel, who goes from living on the streets, to becoming a driver, to developing into an entrepreneur of his own driving company. In the first section of the novel, which takes place in the ‘Darkness ’ (the poorer districts of India), Balram is introduced to driving as an occupation and was intrigued by the amount of money drivers were being paid. Already here, it is evident that Balram is motivated by money and wishes to do more than work at a teashop for the rest of his life. To Balram drivers are something of a higher significance and worthiness.
The first driver we meet is the bus driver. In the poor village of Laxmangarh, everyone looks up to this bus driver. The village believes that he is a ‘man’ and Balram believes that living like a man meant ‘being like Vijay’ , the bus driver. This is firstly because he has managed to get a decent job, unlike the majority of the other jobs in the Darkness, and secondly, due to the freedom he gets from being able to drive around, liberating him from the poor conditions of the Darkness. Balram’s mention of ‘how important he looks’ and that he ‘wanted to be like Vijay’ concludes that his goal is to make it in life.
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...e progresses in the Light. Ashok’s attitude changes towards Balram, and as this occurs, Balram’s servitude towards Ashok changes in an ironic tone while carefully planning his revenge that resolves in the murder of his master. EXAMPLE
Initially Balram is humble which is ironic because this changes when he moves to the Light and becomes driver number 1. As he escalates in personal importance his requirements for satisfaction increases, and he develops an impatience towards being dependent on someone to earn money to survive. Drivers have fewer restrictions and are free to go wherever then can which is exactly what Balram desires. Whatever he needed to do to become a driver he did, and as this was not enough, he murdered his master and he felt admired for it. Comparably, the other drivers represented in the novel were also admired for their actions and who they were.
The remaining story developments of both books detail further growth in the character development of the protagonists and the principle characters. And so it is with us and how we unravel the mysteries of symbolism in literary word puzzles, that we as readers can also grow like "blossoms blooming" through the eyes of Hurston and Fitzgerald.
Balram Halwai, the novel’s main protagonist, portrays himself as a modern renaissance man. He begins his narrative by detailing the rewards that have come with his success. He uses the chandelier in his office as an example of his success. He describes the chandelier as “having a personality of its own. It’s a huge thing, full of small diamond-shaped glass pieces, just like the ones they used to show in the films of the 1970s” (Adiga 5). To Balram, the chandelier is reminiscent of commodities of the western world. He bases his opulence on gaudy tangible items, like the items he sees in western media. This highlights how western values have seeped into other countries and cultures. As a result of this globalization, Balram wants to achieve more items that attribute to his status and success.
...mother realize the identity of her daughter's rapist before the Marquise, establishing irony and advancing engagement between reader and text. It is also clear to the reader that by the conclusion of The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator has become maniacal.
This novel and film commentary analysis or interpretation will be first summarised and then critiqued. The summary will be divided into twenty- four episodes. While summarising it is well to remember that the film was made out of the book.
reflects upon the theme of the novel. As it highlights the fact that if people in the society
Balram attributes this to the corruption in the government, which allows it’s government facility to not function, causing his father’s death. His father’s death pains him but to all the others in his family, treated as a almost normal occurrence. To avoid any further of empathy, Balram hides behind euphemisms to describe acts that would require a genuine connection to be worthwhile. Having been hurt before he doesn’t want to be hurt again, which influences his opinions; and even the description of his life in India when he compares his life to the darkness and what he aspires to be––the light––is a euphemism based on how connected to others he must be. In the darkness, Balram’s family must all work together to survive––something that requires trust; which has been absent Balram’s entire life. The government is corrupt, the police have been bribed, hospitals don’t help the people and the schools don’t teach anything all because of the light. The light is corrupting the darkness (how ironic) and as a result, the world Balram is part of is corrupt, solely because of those who rule over it. Those that live in the light don’t allow all those that live in the darkness to rise up and become better. Balram never trusts his master: constantly believing that he would be replaced. To be able to see the world from a different perspective, you need to understand them; and this requires
... 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.
the novel as you will read further I will relate some issues of the novel, as
In order to understand what changes happen to twist the views of the 2 main characters in both novels, it is important to see the outlook of the two at the beginning of the novels in comparison ...
Stylistically, the book is arranged in rotating chapters. Every fourth chapter is devoted to each individual character and their continuation alo...
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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