Character Analysis Of The White Tiger By Aravind Adaga

Analysis of the White Tiger

India is a country of stark contrasts. The rich and the poor live in different worlds yet often side by side. The live in daily contact with the rich, often working for them. Aravind Adaga attempts to address these themes in his book, the White Tiger: A Novel compelling cohesive narrative. He tells the story of Balram, a young poor man of with a strong moral foundation. The books shows his slow descent from that moralistic young man, to one who throws aside his family his principals and murders a man in order to escape the rooster coop. IN this book, The rooster coop is a clear analogy to the poor of India, with the Butchers representing their masters. This is the voice of despair. The author is trying to

In the book this is represented in depictions of Balram’s school and in the four people who run Balram’s town; The Wild Boar, the Stork, The Buffalo and the Raven. The Stork illegally takes a cut of all money procured by fishing. The wild Boar owned the land the townspeople wanted to work on and paid low wages. The Buffalo controlled the Rickshaws and the roads and got his cut from them and the Raven, who is the greediest of them all and who owned the worst land and harassed the goatherds. Although these characters are obvious architypes, their symbolism is clear. Indians live in a system in which they feel powerless at every turn. Even the elections are rigged. It is most clearly depicted in the following description of elections, “They will find me dutifully voting on Election Day at the voting booth in the school compound in Laxmangarh in Gaya District, as I have done in every general, state, and local election since I turned eighteen. I am India’s most faithful voter, and I still have not seen the inside of a voting booth. [] 1276. From this passage one can see why the Indians do not vote. They feel disenfranchised in a country where the vote is