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.
The next driver mentioned in the Darkness is the Truck ...
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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.
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...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.
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Flink’s Three stages of American automobile consciousness fully express the progress of the whole automobile industry. From the first model T to the automatic production, it gives me an intuitive feeling of the automobile history from a big picture. On the other hand, Kline and Pinch focus more on a certain group of people--farmers or people who live in the rural area, they use it as an entry point to talk about automobile, alone with the role and duty transition between male and
reflects upon the theme of the novel. As it highlights the fact that if people in the society
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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
In the novel, The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga the main character, is Balram, one of the children in the “darkness” of India. Adiga sheds a new light on the poor of India, by writing from the point of view of a man who was at one time in the “darkness” or the slums of India and came into the “light” or rich point of view in India. Balram’s job as a driver allows him to see both sides of the poverty line in India. He sees that the poor are used and thrown away, while the rich are well off and have no understanding of the problems the poor people must face. The servants are kept in a mental “Rooster Coop” by their masters. The government in India supposedly tries to help the poor, but if there is one thing Adiga proves in The White Tiger, it is that India’s government is corrupted. Despite the government promises in India designed to satisfy the poor, the extreme differences between the rich and the poor and the idea of the Rooster Coop cause the poor of India to remain in the slums.
the novel as you will read further I will relate some issues of the novel, as
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