Across the globe, nations are undergoing an urban revolution. Specifically, Indian officials have created a new plan to transform the many cities into the new Dubai, thus creating a new shift in normal Indian culture. For example, new jobs for big businesses, fresh buildings sprouting up, and new freeways has kicked India into high gear. Author, Aravind Adiga explores modern day India through a riveting tale about a nefarious entrepreneur in his book The White Tiger. Taking place in a time of economic wealth coming into India, the inequalities of prosperity is explored. Aravind Adiga paints a portrait of the hardships forced upon India’s lower class. With these inequalities, many are faced with two choices: accept their role in the caste system or become a self-made entrepreneur. In The White Tiger, the audience follows the tale of a sweet maker, Balram …show more content…
Present in the beginning of the book, Balram describes himself as half baked clay. The phrase half baked is coined from only have a small amount of schooling, not completely ‘baked’. Balram goes onto justify that it is okay that they are half baked because “Entrepreneurs are made from half baked clay” (Aravind 9). Meaning, that it is okay that they have not completed their schooling because no entrepreneurs complete their education, in fact that is what makes them so great. Entrepreneurs are painted as astute or crafty, able to quickly transform themselves to whatever is needed to succeed and almost liquefy their own identities to suit the needs of others. This is present in Balram because he can quickly adapt to any situation. For example, when Balram is working in the Tea Shop in Laxmangarh, when he overheard miners discussing the need for drivers in the city and how much they paid (Aravind 45). Balram decided then and there, to become a driver. Even though, Balram had never driven a car, he would find a way to become a
In order to understand why Whitty’s argument is effectively communicated it must be noted that this article was published in the politically progressive magazine, Mother Jones. The audience of Mother Jones mostly consists of young adults, mostly women, who want to be informed on the corruptness of the media, the government and the corporate world. In order to be fully effective in presenting her points, Whitty starts her article by creating a gloomy imagery through her story of the city of Calcutta and the hard lives which its citizens live. Through her use of words such as “broken down…. Smoky streets” to describe the scene at Calcutta, she is able to create this gloomy image. She ties this gloomy story to how the population of Calcutta is the reason for the harsh living environment and how immense its population density is when compared to cities like New York. Additionally, she discusses how the increase in population has caused harsh lives for individuals in the Himalayas, the rest of India and the rest of the world. Through these examples she ties the notion that the root causes of such hard lives are because of the “dwindling of resources and escalating pollution,” which are caused by the exponential growth of humankind. She goes on to
Keung is one of the protagonists of the book "White Jade Tiger". He has tanned skin, long braided hair, and black eyes. Keung grew into a hard-working, ambitious man from experiencing a tough moral in life. Together, Keung and Jasmine (who he believed to be a spirit of his dream) will return the White Jade Tiger to Bright Jade to end the deathly curse on the Bright Jade clan.
Conformity, the act of changing to fit in. Conformity can completely change a person whether it be their looks, such as their the way they dress, or their personality, like the way they act around certain people. In The Sociology of Leopard Man Logan Feys argues that being human has a right to it, and that right is to be who you are. Society pushes out certain people for not fitting in with everyone else, but also says that nobody should fit in, because everyone has a different personality.
While it may be easier to persuade yourself that Boo’s published stories are works of fiction, her writings of the slums that surround the luxury hotels of Mumbai’s airport are very, very real. Katherine Boo’s book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” does not attempt to solve problems or be an expert on social policy; instead, Boo provides the reader with an objective window into the battles between extremities of wealth and poverty. “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” then, exposes the paucity and corruption prevalent within India.
The book "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper is an amazing adult-teen fiction that captures the difficulty of dealing with reality and the consequences of bad actions. Draper puts forth a MTV-like setting, placed at Hazelwood High School. In this depressing novel, Sharon Draper captures perspectives from all of those teens who were effected by the horrible incident. The book is told from many different viewpoints. It is told by descriptive news articles, emotional letters, and conversations between various people involved in the book. This book can connect to people of all ages going through similar events.
Throughout the entire novel, Balram does not exhibit intellectual empathy because he is too concerned with his own self-interest to notice the needs of the others around him. Intellectual empathy is the ability to see the world through the eyes of others in an effort t to better understand them. The novel demonstrates that in order to become successful, one must ignore the needs of others; and Balram’s willingness to neglect and ignore others and their viewpoints allows him to do just
White privilege are privileges that are given to white people who they do not earn, it 's an asset they get; on daily basis just because of their skin color.; White. Peggy McIntosh describes the white privilege as "an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code-books, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks (McIntosh 1988, p175).” I believe that the white privilege is the same as racism because the word white privilege itself explains it. It is privilege given and offered towards only the white people. If someone is given a special privilege because they are white then that is racism.
... 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 author of the passage used a variety of techniques to seek the interest in the early life of Tiger Woods. In the opening paragraph the author uses the title ‘How to tame a Tiger’ as a personification of a Tiger Woods and tiger in nature. This undoubtedly caught the attention of readers of diverse categories from sporty to naturalistic. The opening paragraph continues with the introduction of Tiger Woods with interesting facts about his accomplishments. The author presents Tiger to the readers with vivid descriptions and recommendations in lines 5-6. A tone of admiration is noticed when Tiger gave credit to a fellow golfer for paving the way in 1997 for blacks like him to play national golf.
In the film, “Slumdog Millionaire” showed the world how India is a society that is filled with violence and abuse. Slumdog Millionaire exposes the tragic effects of poverty in many different cities of India. The film talks about a Mumbai boy, Jamal, who grew up in the slums that became a contestant on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” During the contest, Jamal were arrested under suspicion of cheating. Jamal was being interrogated by the police, and revealed events from his life history to explain why he knew the answers on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
In the story of “The Lady or the Tiger” there is a king that is semi-barbaric. The king has a daughter and she is a little barbaric herself and because they are a barbaric family they have a way of taking care of crime. They will have a lady and a tiger in two doors and if someone commits a crime or if the king doesn't like the person then the person will be put in the dome and will have to chose one of the doors. If they pick the door with the tiger in it that means that they are guilty of their crime and they will be eaten by the tiger and if they choose the door with the lady then it will mean that they get out scoot free. But there is a catch to it if they choose the lady then they will have to marry the lady even if they have a wife and family.
In Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo tells the stories and struggles of families living in a slum adjacent to the Sahar Airport in Mumbai, India. Boo details the ways in which the residents of this slum, Annawadi, attempt to escape their poverty, but fail to do so. Despite numerous initiatives sponsored by the Central Government of India to improve the lives of the many individuals living in Annawadi, these programs are ultimately unable to do so due to deep-rooted corruption in the city of Mumbai. Regardless of this, the residents of Annawadi seem to accept corruption as a fact of life, and do little to fight it. As illustrated over the course of Boo’s narrative, this results from the fact that many Annawadians recognize the ways in which the laws of their society allow for the unfair treatment of certain groups of people, especially the poor and religious minorities, and are also cognizant of the fact that they have no real power to change a system that
Hanna Rosin a writer for The Atlantic states in “Mother Inferior” she concentrates on showing how Western style parenting is not considered pathetic as Amy Chau the author of “Battle of the Tiger Mother” assumes. She indicates that the different style of parenting shows how some kids are free willed and take on life learning and making mistakes while others are stuck trying to master one thing without having a choice. She claims that although parents need to push their child to be successful you must give them some control in finding their own likes and dislikes not threatening and belittling the child to motivate them. She gave examples of children who were held to high standards who weren’t comfortable with simply enjoying life. Rosins wanted
Death is a nebulous, inescapable force that everyone must confront and learn to deal with in some way. In The Tiger’s Wife, Death is everywhere, in the near constant fighting and dangerous remainders of several wars. For “The Tiger’s Bride”, however, Death remains just outside the scope of the story, brushing along the edges of our awareness but never put plainly before us like the many corpses of Obreht’s novel. Or at least it seems this way until we recognize The Beast as more than just a tiger making play at humanity, that he is instead Death manifested in flesh and fur. If, then, the tiger is Death given physical form, what does this mean for The Tiger’s Wife? Even here, the tiger is tied to imagery of Hell, devils, and Death. It open for
The story Q & A, written by Vikas Swarup, illustrates the lives of those in the slums of India and how those living there experience life. The novel recites the unimaginable journey of a slum dog who becomes a billionaire. Throughout the rags to riches story of Ram Mohammed Thomas, he is presented with several catalysts which change his life.